Come visit Thurdsay, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
There will be a general meeting of the Cumberland County Genealogical Society on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 7 pm, in the Frances Smith Room on the second floor of the Amherst Police Station, 21 Havelock Street, Amherst.
We will again allow our guests and members bring something of interest, old or new for a "SHOW & TELL".
We have had numerous and surprising things of interest in past venues like this and hope, someone can please us with an "extra surprise object, to tickle everyone's curiosity".
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 25 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, and occupations, etc. and about the times, that they lived their lives.
Email: "archives@ccgsns.com" or Call: 902-661-7278

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}