Next CCGS Meeting
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 7:00 p.m
Location: Amherst Police Station (Sgt. Francis Smith, Board Room), 21 Havelock St., Amherst, NS, take elevator on far left in lobby to second floor.
Speaker: Sarah Wallace – Archivist Maritime Conference, Sackville, NB
Topic: Maritime Conference Office of the United Church of Canada. Talk will include background about the Archives and the facilities; an outline of the services the Archives provides, and talk about the Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and United Church records which might be helpful to genealogical researchers, as well as highlight several examples of interesting records we hold for the Cumberland County area.
Local area volunteers welcome. Please join us and help with many of our on going interesting projects.
Get you family memorial leaves placed on the CCGS Memorial Heritage Tree and watch it grow. Add your own ancestors using the attached form and see the tree blossom with Gold, Silver and Greenery. Full news article posted in left column below our newest publications.
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Cumberland Roots Vol. 1 Issue 3
ISSN #1496-6972 Price $2.00
[From the Editors:]
What a busy summer ! Grown children visiting on and off and grandchildren stayng for weeks on end. It’s hard to do much research on the beach. Now their schooling offers us a reprieve and after daily chores there is time to again look for the ancestors. We did get to the library for books (in case there was a rainy day) for the children and picked out some for research. Book reviews are offered on page 5 and 6. We took our camera (instead of a pen for recording inscriptions) and the kids to a few cemeteries as well. They are learning all about their great-great-greats while swatting mosquitoes.
We were also loaned a copy of the “North Eastern District Telephone Directory of November. 1937. (Thanks to R. Ernst and R. DeWitt). We have reproduced some of the family business advertisements. “Busy Amherst” lists about 1000, both business and personal telephoncs. Parrsboro 145. Oxford 200. Pugwash 175 and Springhill about 350.
Our sympathies are with all those whose family notes will record losses due to the disastrous events of September 11, 2001.
Contents:
From the Editors
Membership Report
June Meeting
Fenian Raids, conclusion
Net News
National Library of Canada
East Leicester School
Cousins Generate Confusion
The Story Tellers
Book Reviews
New Member Queries
The Society and Contacts
{Source: Page 1, Cumberland Roots, Volume 1, Issue 3, September 18, 2001}