speaking of local histories.. I remember in the 70's reading in the
pans...an article in a 'local' cumberland co. newspaper... about the history
of the community.....another article, i have (but do not know the paper or
community) tells of a diary of a loyaist.woman's daily journal .of the
voyage from new york and thots upon going a shore..in 1783.
It surely helps us to understand conditions. Even if there is no genlogical
info to speak of...
Is there a site or repository for such articles?..or maybe different
communities in cumberland county have ...local histories ..written by the
old timers....
How would one find out if such is available..eg Wallace, Westchester River
Philip, Fox harbor etc...
Thanks Joyce
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From: <rgenr8ion@...>
To: <nscumber@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nscumber] anniversary
> Norma
>
> To answer your questions
> << 1. Is it feasible to have a searchable database of the Funeral Home
> Records
> for Cumberland County as deaths are a matter of public record ?>>
>
> This is probably not possible. As the funeral homes supply the province
with
> the information it needs for the death certificate, they are not allowed
to
> devulge teh information in the books. They are allowed to only tell what
is
> not on a death certificate. I know, because I was looking over an
employeees
> shoulder and saw my gr-grandmothers page. Listed was her mothers maiden
name
> (which I had not had at that time). When I obviously became excited, she
> told me I was not supposed to get the information form them as there was a
> law to prevent them from giving out the information (to allow the province
to
> charge us for the death certificate probably).
>
> <<2. As the late Ernest Coates contributed so much to early genealogy
> information in his series in the Amherst Daily News, would it be feasible
> to have an online searchable database of his contributions to the history
> of Cumberland County?
> >>
> I never met Ernie, but alot of people have great admiration for him. But
he
> made mistakes. He did my family and had my cousin listed as my uncle with
a
> birth year that matched his mothers birth year. This gave my grandparents
> five living children. There was a stillborn, but there are only four
living
> children. A small mistake was spelling my sisters name wrong. Now decide
if
> you would like all of his work assessable to those who are not diligent
and
> check their sources for primary spources used so they can double check and
> keep THEIR paper trail going.
>
> JMHO
> Beth
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