Shelburne County Archives & Genealogical Society NewsletterIn the Winter 2011 issue, they bring us up-to-date on the latest news of the Society, and on page 2 there is a lengthy article about the "Missing Link: The Ancestry of John Spinney" by Brian Smith.
It is interesting to see how Brian took a few clues from the "History of Barrington Township" about Spinney's ancestry, and by using classic research in land petitions, and research at the New England History and Genealogical Society, Smith was able to go back three generations.
There is also a transcription by Ann and M. Edward Butt of the notes by Walter E. Abbott in "Surveying the Canadian United States Border as found in Stories and Reminisces of Walter E. Abbot" as how he talked about the boundary as it affected the fishing industry.
There are a couple of projects of the Society that may interest the readers of this blog, and they are -
The Society will soon issue a publication on the doctors and dentists of Shelburne from 1783 to 1965, and
The "Women of Shelburne County",which is an oral history project. It will be released on a DVD, and will be released early in the summer.
To look at the website, please visit them at http://nsgna.ednet.ns.ca/shelburne or contact them at gensentre@ns.sympatico.ca.
Disclaimer: I am from Shelburne, and am a descendant on my paternal side of Andrew Barclay, a Port Roseway Associated Loyalist, one of the founders of the town in 1783.
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