Nova Scotia Archives yesterday announced that the 1945 marriage records are now available in the Transcribe section on the provincial archives’ website for people to transcribe, and the 1920 birth and 1970 death records “are coming soon.”
The 1945 marriage records have been indexed, including bride and groom names, dates, and county, and now the archives has opened the rest of the fields for people to transcribe. The additional fields include parent names, addresses, occupations, and religion and names of witnesses.
That means, once this additional transcription and indexing is complete, we’ll be able to search the collection and also search by the names of parents and witnesses and addresses. Think how great it will be to search for a mother of the bride or groom by her maiden name.
The archives said the transcription work “will give these records a whole new level of searchability and access.”
A lot of progress has been made with the collection, and the archives expects it won’t be long before it is fully searchable online.
If the response from people to transcribe is good, the archives hopes to apply the transcription ability to other vital statistic records.
You can start transcribing the 1945 marriage records on Transcribe. You can also transcribe the surnames that interest you.
It took me less than five minutes to transcribe one marriage register.
