The American genealogist. Being a catalogue of family histories and publications containing genealogical information issued in the United States, arranged chronologically / by William H. Whitmore. [2d ed.] Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell, 1868. vi pages, 1 l., [9]-287 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS W59 1868 - Open Shelf
1st edition issued under title: A hand-book of American genealogy.
United States — Genealogy — Bibliography.
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The direct ancestry of the late Jacob Wendell Boston : D. Clapp & Son, 1882. 49 pages : illustrations, port., fold. geneal. tab. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS W48 St2 - Open Shelf
Wendell family
New York — History — Colonial period.
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Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer, 1651-1674 / translated and edited by A.J.F. van Laer. Albany N.Y. : University of the State of New York, 1932. 494 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS V25 - Open Shelf
Published as a supplement to the volume of Van Rensselaer Bowier manuscripts, issued ... in 1908.--Pref.
Van Laer, Arnold J. F. (Arnold Johan Ferdinand), 1869-1955
New York (State) — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 — Sources
Rensselaerswyck (N.Y.)
New York (State) — Social life and customs — To 1775.
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United States. Library of Congress
American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1910. 805 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS UN3 - Open Shelf
Hanson, James Christian Meinich, 1865-
Gilkey, Malina Anvers.
United States. Library of Congress. Catalog division.
United States — Genealogy — Bibliography — Catalogs
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Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours / par Cyprien Tanguay. Montréal : E. Sénécal, 1871-1890. 7 v. : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS T14 - Open Shelf
Volume 1 has imprint: Province de Québec, E. Senécal. Includes also genealogical records of the first French inhabitants of Louisiana and the settlements between Louisiana and Canada. Cf. Pref., v. 2. The second series includes many entries of later date than 1763, belonging to a projected third series, intended to cover the period since the English conquest.
French-Canadians — Genealogy — Dictionaries
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Louisiana — Genealogy — Dictionaries.
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Merchant princes : Halifax's first family of finance, ships and steel / James D. Frost. Toronto : J. Lorimer, 2003. 375 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS ST1 M554 2003 - Open Shelf
Merchants — Nova Scotia — Halifax Biography
Halifax (N.S.) Genealogy
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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Genealogical material and local histories in the St. Louis Public Library Rev. ed. St. Louis : n.p., 1953. 315 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS Sa3 G14 - Open Shelf
Genealogy — Bibliography — Catalogs
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The pioneers and churches : the pioneers and families of Big Brook and West Branch E.R. and surrounding sections, including Lorne, Glengarry, Elgin, Centerdale, Hopewell, Marshdale, Foxbrook / by D.K. Ross. New Glasgow : Hector Pub. Co., 1957. 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS R73 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History
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The New York genealogical and biographical record New York, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. ill., portraits, maps. ; 25-27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS N42 - Open Shelf
Devoted to the interests of American genealogy and biography. Editors: 1895-Jan. 1900, R. H. Greene; Apr. 1900-Jan. 1902, H. R. Stiles; Apr. 1902-Apr. 1907, M. E. Dwight; July 1907-Jan. 1910, G. A. Morrison; Apr. 1910-Jan. 1911, H. S. Mott; Apr. 1911-Jan. 1912, J. R. Totten; Apr. 1912-Jan. 1922, H. S. Mott; Apr. 1922-Jan. 1936, J. R. Totten; Apr. 1936-Jan. 1937, H. M. Pitman; Apr. 1937-Oct. 1938, C. A. Ditmas; Jan. 1939-Jan. 1942, L. E. De Forest; Apr.-Oct. 1942, C. Mann; Jan. 1943-
Greene, Richard Henry, 1839-1926, ed
Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909, ed
Dwight, Melatiah Everett, ed
Morrison, George Austin, 1864-1916, ed
Mott, Hopper Striker, 1854-1924, ed
Totten, John Reynolds, 1856-1936, ed
Pitman, H. Minot (Harold Minot), 1888- ed
Ditmas, Charles Andrew, 1887-1938, ed
De Forest, Louis Effingham, 1891- ed
Mann, Conklin, ed
Maynard, Arthur S., ed.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
New York (State) — History — Periodicals
New York (State) — Genealogy — Periodicals.
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Life and times of Stevens Thomson Mason : the boy governor of Michigan / by Lawton T. Hemans. Lansing : Michigan Historical Commission, 1920. 528 pages : illus. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS M38 H37 - Open Shelf
Final chapter written by W.L. Jenks. cf. Pref., p.4.
Jenks, William Lee, 1856-1936.
Michigan Historical Commission
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The genealogist's guide / by George W. Marshall. Guilford : privately printed for the author by Billing and Sons, 1903. xiii, 880 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS M35 - Open Shelf
New edition, without the List of parish registers in the edition of 1893.
Great Britain — Genealogy — Bibliography
Great Britain — History, Local — Bibliography.
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The peerage of the British empire as at present existing : arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility / by Edmund Lodge. 7th ed. London, Saunders and Otley, 1838. xviii, 606 pages : illustrations (coats of arms) ; 24 cm.
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Nobility — Great Britain
Heraldry
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The peerage and baronetage of the British Empire as at present existing 35th ed. London : Hurst and Blackett, 1866. lx, 836 pages : illustrations, coats of arms ; 24 cm.
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Heraldry
Great Britain — Peerage.
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Complete peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland London : Geo. Kearsley, 1799. 2 v. : illustrations ; 14 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS K21 - Open Shelf
Volume 1 contains materials pertaining to England, v. 2 deals with Scotland and Ireland.
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The original lists of persons of quality : emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others, who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : / from mss. preserved in the State Paper Dept. of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England. London : Chatto and Windus, 1874. 580 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS H79 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Spine title: Original lists of persons of quality who went from Great Britain to the American plantations.
Great Britain. Public Record Office.
British — America — Lists
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 — Sources
United States — Genealogy — Sources
Great Britain — Emigration and immigration
Barbados — Biography.
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The Haws family and their seafaring kin Dunfermline : Printed by J. B. Mackie & Co., 1932. 252, xvi pages : front., plates (1 colour) portraits, colour
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS H31 H31 - Open Shelf
Ship builders
Shipbuilding — Great Britain.
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Gorges of Plymouth Fort : a life of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Captain of Plymouth Fort, Governor of New England, and Lord of the Province of Maine Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1953. vii, 495 pages : illustrations, maps, tables. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS G67 P92 - Open Shelf
Maine — History — Colonial period.
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The Estabrooks family in Concord, Massachusetts, and on the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada and in Haverhill, Massachusetts Saint John, N.B. : 1953-55. 2 v. : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS ES8 - Open Shelf
Bracketed information in title in ms. on t.pages Mimeographed; t.pages printed; additions, corrections, etc. in ms.
Massachusetts Genealogy
New Brunswick Genealogy
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Bibliographia genealogica americana : an alphabetical index to American genealogies and pedigrees Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell, 1878. 238 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS D93 - Open Shelf
United States — Genealogy — Bibliography
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Searching for your ancestors : the how and why of genealogy / by Gilbert Harry Doane. [Rev. ed.] Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1948. xv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS D65 - Open Shelf
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Les Canadiens-Français : origine de familles émigrées de France, d'Espagne, de Suisse, etc., pour venir se fixer au Canada, depuis la fondation de Québec jusqu'à ces derniers temps et signification de leurs noms / par N. E. Dionne. Quebec : Garneau, 1914. xxxiii, 611 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS D62 - Open Shelf
Names, Personal — French-Canadian
French-Canadians
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Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage London : Odhams, 1878-1975. ill. (incl. coats of arms) ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS D35 B26 - Open Shelf
Some volumes called Royal edition. Includes an unpaged appendix, Royal warrant holders, and 19 a War honours supplement. Imprint varies. Library has: 1895, 1917, 1919, 1947.
Nobility — Great Britain
Baronetage
Knights and knighthood — Great Britain
Gentry — Great Britain
Heraldry — Great Britain
Great Britain — Peerage
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Daughters of the American Revolution. Illinois. Mary Little Deere Chapter, Moline
Genealogical records Moline, Ill. : Genealogical Records Committee, 1949-. ill. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS D26 G26 - Open Shelf
Registers of births, etc. — Illinois
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A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke. London : H. Colburn 1846. 2 v. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CS B91g
Burke, John Bernard, Sir., 1814-1892.
Heraldry — Great Britain
Great Britain — Genealogy
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A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 5th ed. London : Harrison, 1875. 2 v. ; 26 cm.
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Heraldry — Great Britain
Great Britain — Gentry
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