This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EQC.2ACI/783.1.1 Message Board Post: It is my understanding that Nova Scotia's effort to register vital statistics, begun in 1864, petered out and apparently no death records were kept from the end of 1877 until October 1908. Some churches (Roman Catholic, Anglican) would keep death records. Sweeny's Funeral Home in Yarmouth has good records of the burials they handled, but they start in the 1890's,. Another possible source is the Yarmouth Herald, a newspaper which was published weekly from 1833 on; most of the issues are available on microfilm at NSARM and other places, but there is no index; you have to go through it page by page. Most issues have a Deaths section, but I suspect from my searches that not everybody made it.