Welcome to the Cape Breton Genealogy and Historical Association

  Our member's web site consists of over 600,000 pages of  material transcribed from original documents and other types of material useful to researchers; over 25 GB of information related to Cape Breton. This site has the largest collection of Cape Breton genealogy information available anywhere.

 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. 

You must be a member of the CBGHA to view the records on this site. New members are welcome! Click on Membership on the right side of this page to join.

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Announcements

 The CAPE BRETON GENEALOGY & HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION June 2012 EZINE is now posted to the website- www.cbgen.org . There is more great new information this month and we extend our thanks to the members that provided material.

 
In the upcoming season we will record another large selection of Cape Breton cemeteries with the addition of photos of all headstones in that cemetery. There are ways the membership in general can help in this project.
 
First,  if you are able to photograph the headstones in a graveyard and share the pictures to be posted to the site. This would be a great help but please contact us to avoid duplication as a number of cemeteries are already scheduled for this season.
 
Second, if you can provide the location of any cemetery that we do not have listed on the website, the cemetery would be added to our list of cemeteries to be photographed and it would be completed as soon as we are able.
 
If you have any information or questions about the cemetery photographing project please contact Roger Tobin by email - roger.tobin1@gmail.com
 
Cemeteries are not our only area of interest, we are always interested in adding church records, family trees, deeds, wills, probate records, school & military material and so much more. Please contact us by email if you have material to add to the website. Material can be sent to Norm - norm@cbgen.org
 
Good luck with your research.
May 7, 2012

Disclaimer

The Cape Breton Genealogy & Historical Association posts a wide variety of material of interest to anyone interested in Cape Breton genealogy and history. With very few exceptions, this material is gathered by the volunteer members of the CBGHA. We are confident that all the material submitted represents many hours of diligent work and is high quality research. Much of the material was copied from original sources and is a great asset to researchers. The volume of material posted to the CBGHA site makes it impossible to verify all the material that is submitted.

We are confident that the material on the CBGHA site is of excellent quality and was prepared with all reasonable care but human error is a possibility. We suggest that the above statement be considered when doing your research and if you disagree with any of the material found on our website you should review the original documents.