UPDATE 21 MAR 2021 THE CBGHA IS FOLLOWING THE ADVICE OF MEDICAL EXPERTS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS,
THE HELP CENTER WILL REMAIN CLOSED UNTIL OUR VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN VACCINATED AGAINST THE COVID VIRUS. WE WILL RE EVALUATE OPENING FROM TIME TO TIME.
THE GOOD NEWS
OUR WEBSITE ACCESS WILL NOT CHANGE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE
24/7/ 365
To try to provide assistance during our HELP CENTER closure we will accept queries from members, sent to us by email using our contact link near the top right of our website. Try to keep your query simple and addition queries can be sent. Your email queries will be answered by our volunteers as soon as possible.
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 open Tuesday 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
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Old Sydney Society
Friends of Irish Research
Vintage Cape Breton Photos
