The AGM meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. in the Senior Citizens Centre, Springhill, NS
All members are asked to attend and help with selection of officers and board members. If you have some spare time to help with projects, please come forth and ask how you may be able to help the society and take some of the overwhelming work load from the shoulders of the few truly active and dedicated members.
Speaker: David Winter
Topic: Mr. Winter is Cumberland County's daily contributor of genealogical information (vital stats & obituaries) from NS Archive, Halifax, to the nscumber email list. He has been researching and sharing with anyone interested for a number of years now. Much appreciated by many for his contributions.
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“Once By Sea – Once By land” Genealogy of Elijah Brown
A private publication by author Bliss Brown, a direct descendant of Elijah Brown (1780-1855)
Price: $65.00 + (shipping and handling is extra)
1100 pages 8 ½” X 11″, (3 Volume Set)
“Once By Sea, Once By Land” is a three volume 1100 page collection of genealogy and history based upon the ancestry and descendants of Elijah Brown (31 March 1780 – 30 September 1855). The story begins in England 1635, to Boston, then New Hampshire and Maine before his marriage 1802 in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. The families of Elijah and Henrietta (Cannon) Brown spread across Colchester and Cumberland counties of Nova Scotia, Westmorland County of New Brunswick and Elgin County, Ontario. The wide span of family names include Siddall, Piers, Carter, Welton, Hughes, Fife, Brundage, Jeffers, Skidmore, Kennedy, Tabor, Edwards, Pettigrew, Thompson, Allen, Canning, Harrison, Hoeg, Bird, Atkinson, Cochrane, Bowden, Dowe, Quinn and of course, Brown; and so many more. Pages also include over 300 photographs and numerous obituaries. Authored by Bliss Brown, after more than 40 years of research.