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A view along the Avon River from Fort
Edward hill, Windsor, Nova Scotia, circa 1928.
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Hants
County, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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New to Hants County?
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Hants County occupies the
central part of the
Province of Nova
Scotia, Canada. The County of Hants was created in 1781
out of one of the original counties --
King's County. Once comprised of seven townships in two
divisions,
Hants
County currently has four municipal divisions: the
Town of
Windsor, the
Town of Hantsport, the
Municipality
of Hants West and the
Municipality
of Hants East. Hants has long been associated with
traditional farming, mining, lumbering and at one time had great
ship-building along the north shore areas. The county remains
primarily a rural area to this day. Windsor, Hantsport and
Shubenacadie are the main towns in the county. The
2001 census of indicates that the County of Hants
had a population totaling 40,513, an increase of 2.6% from
39,483 in 1996. |
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Hants
County Genealogy News and Notes |
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What's new
in Hants County genealogy and history research.
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November 17, 2006
Harriett C. FAULKNER, Hantsport, Photo. Two pictures were
recently found at a thrift shop in Moncton, NB. They appear to
have been taken c.1890 - 1910. The two pictures may be sisters.
One of the pictures is signed: Harriett C. Faulkner, Hantsport,
Hants Co., N.S. I wish to have these photos returned to the
family. Please contact me at
norton2@nbnet.nb.ca if you are a descendant or relative of
Harriett C. Faulkner.
Kind Regards, Wendy Donnahee. |
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November 4, 2006
A. F. Church & Co. Township Map of Hants County, 1871 -
In 1864, Ambrose F. Church was commissioned by the Nova Scotia
legislature to create a series of maps, one for each of Nova
Scotia's 18 counties. Hants County was published in 1871. A. F.
Church’s maps show the locations of towns and villages, and the
names of residents. Zoom in with PDF enlargements. Click a
location on the map, or choose from the present day geographical
descriptions listed below the map. |
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October 28, 2006
Chronological History of the Mosher Family, - From the
Seventeenth Century to the Present date. Compiled by William
Mosher, of Mosherville, Hants Co. Printed by J.J.Anslow, at The
"Hants Journal" Office, Windsor, N. S., 1891. The full text of
this
MOSHER book has been added to the HantsGenWeb -- "The
following data with reference to the Mosher Family, of which
there are many connections in the county of Hants and other
counties of the Province and Canada, will be read with interest.
They have been carefully compiled by William Mosher, of
Mosherville, Hants, after considerable research and trouble." |
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September 5, 2006
New Cemetery Transcriptions Now Online - Seven new Hants
County cemeteries have been recorded by Glenda Clooney and are
now available with other online
cemetery transcriptions freely available to all Hants
County researchers. They are: Admiral Rock United Church
Cemetery; Noel Shore (Anthony-Main) Cemetery; St. Paul’s
Anglican Church Cemetery, Northfield; North Noel Road
Presbyterian Church Cemetery; Riverside Corner / McDonald
Cemetery; MacDougall Cemetery, South Maitland; and South
Maitland United Church Cemetery. We are very appreciative of her
work, and pleased to include them here. The new transcriptions
will be very helpful in your research, so please thank Glenda
for her contribution. |
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A Glimpse of ... |
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Selmah in 1853.
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SELMAH IN 1853.
A Paper read before the Presbyterian Social in Selmah,
Maitland, Hants County, Nova Scotia, 1894.
... "After the French were gone, for a number of years we have
no records of any person living in Selmah. In the year 1765, Mr.
Salter, of Halifax, obtained from the Crown a grant of 2,500
acres, extending on the shore from near Mr. Alfred Putnam's
shipyard to Lower Selmah. All that has come down to us of his
ownership is the name of "Salter's Head," and our worthy citizen
and county councillor, Mr. Stairs, is one of his descendants.
The Salter Grant, except 100 acres at the upper side, passed by
purchase about twenty years later to General Small, who, at the
close of the American Revolution, settled the Kennetcook and
Nine Mile River districts with soldiers who had been disbanded
at the close of that unfortunate struggle, and were rewarded for
their sacrifices and services with allotments of lands in those
districts."
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View Lane, Selmah, N. S., c1910. |
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Contact the HantsGenWeb Coordinator!
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The HantsGenWeb is a part of the Nova
Scotia GenWeb Project. James Custance is the
volunteer host and coordinator of the Hants County, Nova
Scotia GenWeb Project.
If you have
any questions or
concerns regarding this project, you may
contact the HantsGenWeb
Project coordinator, but please note that I am unable to personally answer
any questions or queries about specific families who resided in Hants County or conduct any research myself.
If you are looking for information about an ancestor, please
post your query on the
Hants Message Board, where you
can connect with
other people that may be able to assist you with your questions.
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announce your upcoming family reunion, or a new web
site? Let us know.
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From the
RootsWeb Review Newsletter ... |
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Articles of interest to family historians.
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Accepting
Undocumented Information
By Dan Craycraft in
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
A word of caution to new genealogists. When I began using
the Internet, some five to eight years ago, I accepted
everything that was given to me. I was like a magpie, saving
everything. Unfortunately, I began to post this undocumented
information on the RootsWeb's WorldConnect.
Then the problems began. I received dozens of queries over
the years as to where I got my information. Of course, I
could only explain that it came from John or Jane Doe.
After several years of receiving this type of query, I came
to the conclusion that if it was not my research, I would
delete it from my database and from WorldConnect.
My advice to new genealogists -- don't incorporate someone
else's work into your database. Use their work as a
launching pad, but do not accept their work as fact without
doing the research yourself. This process will save you many
agonizing hours of answering inquiries as to the source of
your information.
Be very careful about what you post online and what access
you allow others to have to your data. I have several
examples where I freely gave my family tree (GEDCOM) to
others. They in turn incorporated it into their databases
and now, I cannot retract what I gave them. Unfortunately,
during those early years of my investigation into my family
line, incorrect information was included. Yet, those errors
continue today to be posted on their websites!
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Previously published in
RootsWeb Review:
27 September 2006, Vol. 9, No. 39. |
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