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No meetings for June, July & August
Meetings are always open to the public, so please come join your local family Genealogical Society, which has been serving Cumberland County for the past 23 years. Research your heritage and find new relatives. Learn about what times your parents, grandparents and other ancestors, lived through, where, when, how, education, religion, occupations, etc.
Much more has been added to our collections during the time of COVID shutdown. Please come and do research from our vast expanding collection.
Email: "archives@ccgsns.com" or Call: 902-661-7278
“Once By Sea – Once By land” Genealogy of Elijah Brown
A private publication by author Bliss Brown, a direct descendant of Elijah Brown (1780-1855)
Price: $50.00 + (shipping and handling is extra)
1100 pages 8 ½” X 11″, (3 Volume Set)
“Once By Sea, Once By Land” is a three volume 1100 page collection of genealogy and history based upon the ancestry and descendants of Elijah Brown (31 March 1780 – 30 September 1855). The story begins in England 1635, to Boston, then New Hampshire and Maine before his marriage 1802 in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. The families of Elijah and Henrietta (Cannon) Brown spread across Colchester and Cumberland counties of Nova Scotia, Westmorland County of New Brunswick and Elgin County, Ontario. The wide span of family names include Siddall, Piers, Carter, Welton, Hughes, Fife, Brundage, Jeffers, Skidmore, Kennedy, Tabor, Edwards, Pettigrew, Thompson, Allen, Canning, Harrison, Hoeg, Bird, Atkinson, Cochrane, Bowden, Dowe, Quinn and of course, Brown; and so many more. Pages also include over 300 photographs and numerous obituaries. Authored by Bliss Brown, after more than 40 years of research.