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Cape Breton Island Obituaries
Index to Obituaries, Decedents, and Surnames



Updated Friday, 01-Aug-2008 22:14:59 MDT

SURNAMES: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
DECEDENTS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

For 2006 and 2007 obituaries posted to the Cape Breton List, as well as some earlier ones I might have missed, please check the List Archives at   http://archiver.rootsweb.com/NS-CAPE-BRETON-L

PLEASE NOTE: Revised December 31, 2005;

Beginning December 30, 2005, any obituaries lacking a year of death will be indexed under the year 1749, with month and day entered where available. You should always check 1749 obits for your surnames.

Update February 16, 2007: 1749 records now number only 18--many thanks to Donald A. Snow and several others

Update February 12, 2006: 1749 records now number only 44--again, many thanks to Donald A. Snow, as well as to a few relatives of the decedents.

Update January 29, 2006: These 1749 records have been reduced by almost half--from 131 to 67--through the sleuthing talents of Donald A. Snow. Thank you, Donald!

Many other obituaries may be indexed in the correct year, but with edited month and/or day. In cases where I have the month and year, I will enter the last day of the month, and where there is only the year, I will enter December 31, in order to have the date accepted ( A comment will be added to note this action.) This is due to the requirement of the program for complete dates for indexing; that is, month, day, year. When this information is not available, the date on which the obit is imported is used by default. I have investigated overriding this feature, but I cannot do this without accessing the original program code, which I am reluctant to do.

I have chosen the year 1749 for those obits lacking a year of death, as the likelihood of having any "real" obits for this year are remote, and all the orphan obits will be in one place. I have today--December 31, 2005--finished transferring any obits lacking the year from recent pages to 1749 pages.

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