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. 

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Thom McCabe
Ireland Reaching Out
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Email: TmcCabe@irelandxo.com

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

May 13, 2013

 Free Consults are Available from Friends of Irish Research

By Joe Petrie
 
The mission statement for the Friends of Irish Research states that the organization “is a collection of volunteers with over 100 years of research experience who desire to utilize their experience and skills to promote the sharing of genealogical knowledge and to assist others in their family research.” The 100 years of Friends experience is grossly under-estimated.
 
Friends provides on-site and off-site consults. On-site consults are one-on-one individual sessions conducted in one of many rooms equipped with PCs. Off-site consults are usually conducted at one of two local Massachusetts Public Libraries during the library’s normal working hours). Also, Friends provides phone consults for US and Canadian clients who are distant from the facility or unable to travel to the Friends handicapped friendly facility.
 
In addition, Friends provides the following on-site: Lectures, Research tools, Access to Affiliates (Ancestry.com and Ireland Reaching Out), links to free databases, assistance with database projects, a Digital Library and digitizing services, a Reference Library, and Internet Access.
 
Friends is a recent start-up located in donated space at North Baptist Church, 899 North Main Street in Brockton MA. Currently, Friends has seven genealogy volunteers who share some common denominators:
·         a passion for genealogy sharing
·         hands-on and published Irish, Atlantic Canada, and US research
·         genealogy volunteering including at the Library at Irish Cultural Centre of New England (ICCNE) in Canton MA where they met. They founded the Friends because they outgrew the facilities at the ICCNE.
 
The volunteers’ diverse resumes include:
·         A former North Sydney, N.S. resident who is the former IT Advisor at the ICCNE Library. He is a founder of a computer consulting company and currently pastor of North Baptist Church. He has designed and maintains the Friends web site.
·         The first Genealogy and Library Director at ICCNE and life member of ICCNE.
·         A former Library Director at ICCNE.
·         A member of the Board of Directors and life member of ICCNE. He has initiated and sponsored the restoration of the famine graveyard in his ancestral homeland in West Cork which is currently underway.
·         A Past President of the Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA). At TIARA, she was responsible for the recovery of 1888-1935 life insurance records of Irish (and a few other records) of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters. The insurance records, which are being digitized, are housed at the Healey Library of the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus. The digitized records will be made available free on line on the TIARA web site. She is a life member of ICCNE.


·         A retiree who is also a Past President of TIARA and life member of ICCNE. At TIARA, he started the Forester Project and responded to the Government of Ireland Heritage Council's request for Heritage Center "user evaluation", by conducting an extensive and very balanced survey which pointed towards member disappointments. (It was the only such survey submitted.) Also, his research on the Grave Markers at the Old Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Canton MA is currently being digitized by Friends. With his daughter, he also researches his late wife’s Nova Scotia roots – his wife’s maternal grandmother was from Port Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, and a member of St. Lawrence parish of the Roman Catholic Antigonish Diocese.
·         A retired Program Manager for the federal government who is also a retired Adjunct Computer Professor. In addition, the individual is a son of two Cape Breton natives and a published author including genealogy articles in the Electronics Magazine (EZINE) of the Cape Breton Genealogy and Historical Association (CBGHA) and of the Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Newfoundland Ancestor.
 
As individuals, the volunteers specialize in assisting clients to break-down genealogy barriers.
 
The volunteers staff the facility on most Friday evenings from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (Eastern Time).
 
To arrange an on-site consult or to visit Friends at their facility at 899 N. Main St., Brockton, MA, simply check the Upcoming Events on the Friends web site prior to proposing a visit or consult date and time: http://www.friendsofirishresearch.org/upcoming%20events.htm.
 
All consults are scheduled by Email by emailing friendsofirishresearch@gmail.com. Your Email should provide information on the individual(s) that you need the Friends volunteers to assist you with. A response normally is processed the same day.
 
Finally, Friends is looking for additional genealogy, genealogy database project staff and digitizing volunteers.
 
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May 16, 2013

 Santrach, Sontrath, Santraich, Santrait.

 We are looking for a location in Victoria County that may be spelt one of the ways shown above. We think it may be in the St Patrick Channel to East Bay area. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. Please send information to  -  norm@cbgen.org 

 

May 20, 2013

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.