Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Genealogy Lookup Library
Welcome to the Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Genealogy Lookup Library page. Listed here are several Lunenburg County reference sources and the volunteers who have offered to do lookups in them. So that we may keep these offers available, please try not to request an abundance of information at one time. Contact names / e-mail addresses are indicated so that you may directly contact those holding each of these resources.
Volunteers are currently needed to do lookups in Lunenburg County and other Nova Scotia publications that you have access to or own. If you are interested in helping with lookups, please send an e-mail here including the publication name, your e-mail address and a brief description of the resource. Thank you!
If you don't see what you're looking for here, please visit the Canada Genealogy Helplist. There you will find many volunteers who have offered to check their resources from all over Canada!
General History
History of Lunenburg County (DesBrisay)
Chris Young
The Foreign Protestants and the Settlement of Nova Scotia (Bell)
Chris Young
Loyalists and Land Settlements in Nova Scotia (PANS)
Catherine DiPietro
Forests of Nova Scotia (Johnson)
Bryan Keddy
Contains names and places involved with the lumbering industry in NS. You can view a list of names in the book here.
Immigrants / Settlers
Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 (Smith and Smith)
Gail Edwards
Planters and Pioneers (Wright)
Gail Edwards
Ship Passenger Lists
Passenger Lists for the Foreign Protestants 1750-1752
Chris Young
Census Indexes
Lunenburg County Census Surname Indexes (1871/1881/1891/1901)
Pat Smith
These have been published by Bridgewater Business & Information Services and proofed by volunteers. Pat holds the copyright on these publications. Please limit your lookup request to 3 individual surnames. If you are interested in purchasing these publications, they are available for sale ($ 45 for 4-volume set). Please contact Pat Smith directly for more information.
Marriages
The Diary of Joseph Dimock - Covering marriages performed mainly by the Reverand Jospeh Dimock (Baptist) in the Chester area between September 4, 1794 - July 8, 1845. There are 275 records listed.
Beverly Vaughan
Obituaries / Cemetery Inscriptions
Obituary Records 1961-1992 from Halifax Newspapers (220,000 indexed listings)
Chris Young
Lunenburg County Cemetery Inscriptions - 4 Volumes (SSGS)
Chris Young
Lunenburg/Queens County Cemetery Inscriptions - Volume 3 (SSGS)
Lawrence Naugle
Local Histories
A History of Sherwood in the County of Lunenburg
(Information on the Levy and Armstrong families of that area.)
Mark Levy
And Now We Remember, History of Barss Corner, Lunenburg Co, NS
Kathy Kane
Family Genealogies / Histories
John Baptiste Bachman of Lunenburg Township, Nova Scotia (Bauckman)
(BACHMAN)
Catherine DiPietro
Colonists of New England and Nova Scotia, Burgess and Heckman Families (Burgess)
(BURGESS / HECKMAN)
Catherine DiPietro
Chester Basin Memories (Oxner)
(COUNTWAY / CROFT / HENNIGAR / OXNER)
Martha Farrar
A Harnish Genealogy (Jones)
(HARNISH)
Kristen Minervino
Hang On To Your Hatts (Hatt)
(HATT)
Gail Edwards
Elsie Thoresen's Notebooks (Thoreson et al.)
(HIRTLE / MEISNER / CORKUM / SNYDER / more)
Vicky Ryan
Elsie Thoresen's Notebooks (Thoreson et al.)
(EISENHAUER)
Judy Eisnor
A History and Genealogy of the South Shore Langilles of Nova Scotia (Langille)
(LANGILLE)
Chris Young
The North Shore Langilles of Nova Scotia (Byers)
(LANGILLE)
Bob Dickie
Dickson and Leslie Family Histories (Dickson / Dickson)
(LESLIE)
Michael Partridge
The Naas Family of Nova Scotia (Naas)
(NAAS)
Chris Young
The Parks Family 1770-1987 (Parks / Mombourquette)
(PARKS)
Chris Young
The Rafuse Family
(RAFUSE)
Chris Young
Descendants of John Vaughan in Newport Rhode Island
(Includes NS Vaughans)
(VAUGHAN)
Leslie Vaughn
A Genealogy of the Westhaver Family 1490-1990 (Westhaver)
(WESTHAVER / BUTLER / EISENHAUER / HIRTLE / KNOCK / LANGILLE / MADER / YOUNG)
Chris Young
Western Shore, Gold River, Martin's Point (Kaizer)
(24 DIFFERENT FAMILY GENEALOGIES)
Chris Young
Information / Reference
Canada Phone CD (8 million Canadian phone listings)
Michael Partridge
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