Come visit Friday & Saturday from 1 p.m, to 4 p.m.
ATTENTION – have you visited the Nova Scotia Highlanders Regimental Museum? Well visits may be limited with the rumblings in the news.
Join us on May 21, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at Col. Layton Ralston Armoury, 36 Acadia St., Amherst, NS
Guest Speaker: Ray Coulson
Topic: Talk and tour of Nova Scotia Highlanders Regimental Museum
Bring a friend, let's fill the room and make Ray feel honored. Not a member no problem everyone is welcome!
Meetings are always open to the public, so please come join your local family Genealogical Society, which has been serving Cumberland County for the past 23 years. Research your heritage and find new relatives. Learn about what times your parents, grandparents and other ancestors, lived through, where, when, how, education, religion, occupations, etc.
Much more has been added to our collections during the time of COVID shutdown. Please come and do research from our vast expanding collection.
Email: "archives@ccgsns.com" or Call: 902-661-7278
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Will Book A
Will Book A (December 1770 to July 1830)
CCGS CD Publication Number CD 2 Price $34.95 + S & H
ISBN 0-9733643-2-7
352 Documents, 5025 Index Entries
This CD contains images of every document in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia’s Will Book A. The dates range from December 15, 1770 when William Olney wrote his will up to July 31, 1830 on the property plan of John Bent.
Included are wills, estate appraisements, guardianship papers, auctions, debits and credits from ledgers, or other accounting of the estate. The related index is in two parts. One lists only the principals, and each entry in this index is linked to an image of the document that was created by or for the principal of that estate. The other list includes every name found in these documents and is linked back to the principal of the document in which the name appears.
A list of all persons named in the documents included in Will Book “A” is available in Microsoft Excel format. See Will Book “A” Index.
Compiled by Cumberland County Genealogical Society