Researching Your Scottish Ancestry
The Cape Breton Genealogy and Historical Association and Clan MacNeil in Canada present - Researching your Scottish Ancestry. Vince MacNeil, President and Genealogist for Clan MacNeil in Canada, will discuss how Gaelic language and cultural practices can inform your search and will explore a variety of genealogical resources (including archival and scientific).
Hosts Catherine-Ann Smith Clan MacNeil Canada Director & Vince MacNeil, President & Genealogist of Clan
MacNeil Canada and volunteers from the Cape Breton Genealogy and Historical Association will welcome you at 2PM on Saturday, December 3 at the former Bank of Montreal building at the corner of Charlotte and Dorchester Streets, 173 Charlotte Street in Sydney.
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS FOR CBGHA
The CAPE BRETON GENEALOGY & HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION has a new email address and the old address is no longer being used.
NEW EMAIL - canada1949@gmail.com
OLD EMAIL - norm@cbgen.org
Cape Breton Genealogy & Historical Association The Hours of operation for our HELP CENTER are changing for our winter break.
Tuesdays hours will finish 18 Oct 2022
and Thursdays will continue 10 am to 3 pm.
until 17 NOV 2022. Location - Museum corner of Dorchester St. & Charlotte St, Sydney, NS
Use of our website does not change and will be
available 24/7/365
The Cape Breton Genealogy and Historical Association (CBGHA) is a Nova Scotia registered not-for-profit society located in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was formed in 2003 and is operated by a board of directors and staff who are all volunteers. Individual membership is worldwide, and also includes several genealogy and historical groups that access CBGHA records regularly, including the Chestico Museum & Historical Society, Friends of Irish Research, the Sydney Family History Center , the Old Sydney Society, the Highland Village Museum, the Heritage Association of Antigonish, the Pictou County Genealogy & Heritage Society/Mcculloch House Museum and the Beaton Institute.
The CBGHA is funded by membership fees and we welcome all new members.
The CBGHA HELP CENTER is reopen Monday, 12 July, 2021, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursday, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, located in the former Bank of Montreal building at the corner of Charlotte and Dorchester Streets, 173 Charlotte St
Sydney, NS. Use of the HELP CENTER is free and open to everyone.
The mission of the CBGHA is to preserve the family history of Cape Breton through the records of individuals and families. It is actively engaged in acquiring, recording and making available local family records to its members. The CBGHA is headquartered in a building owned by the Old Sydney Society but most CBGHA members access the Association’s records through its website.
Our member's web site started in 2003 and now consists of more than 330,000 pages of material transcribed from original documents and other types of material useful to researchers. This site has the largest collection of Cape Breton genealogy information available anywhere. Our collection is large and varied, please take the time necessary to become familiar with the site. Be sure to check the HOW TO NAVIGATE SITE section below on this page.
Our records include an ever increasing collection of Cape Breton related material. No site can have every record for an area, however, our records are vast and increase each month. We have the following types of records - books, cemetery records, census records, monthly magazine the Ezine, family trees, historical records, land grants, maps, helpful links to other sites, military records, newspaper items, obits, parish records, school records and more.
We think of our website as a digital Cape Breton genealogy research library/museum. We assemble Cape Breton genealogy research material, from many sources, in one easy to access site so our members can do their research from the comfort of their homes.
You must be a member of the CBGHA to view the records on this site. Membership is only $25.00 per year for unlimited access to the website material and you may join at any time of year and get access for a full year.
New members are welcome!
Click on Membership on the right side of this page to join the CBGHA
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A Sample of Some Material Available with Membership
Cemeteries
Census
Civil
Families
Parishes
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HOW TO NAVIGATE SITE
HOW TO SEARCH THE SITE
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Old Sydney Society
Friends of Irish Research
Vintage Cape Breton Photos
