Hi Listers, The following is a link to Daniel Johnson's NB Newspaper Vital stats database: http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/Default.aspx?culture=en-CA Since the habit of the day was to copy each others announcements, sometimes you can find a death, birth or marriage announcement from Nova Scotia in this database. >From the website: Scope of transcriptions by Daniel F. Johnson Volumes 102 Transcriptions 298,097 Date Range 29/01/1784 - 31/12/1896 Unique Names 311,514 Name Indexes 640,984 Newspapers 75 Good luck as always with your searches. Sue