Nova Scotia Archives has published 10,000 birth records for 1920 on its website to transcribe, and these record can also be searched by family name or browsed. Another 7,000 birth records are still to be added to the collection.
Tip: In the search results for these records, click on the image of the birth certificate to view it, not the child’s name.
Until the collection is transcribed, the 1920 birth records will not be part of the main vital statistics collection of births, marriages and deaths, which is searchable.
The provincial archives says, “The 1920 birth registrations have been particularly challenging. For the first time since 1864, all of the registrations are individual certificates. Previously, births were registered in ledger books with at least six entries on a page, which meant fewer scans and less handling. Now, we have individual certificates, and that takes a lot of time.
they will be added to the Nova Scotia Archives’ vital statistics online collection.
The fields in the birth records to be transcribed are details about the father, mother and informant.
You can transcribe one, two, or many records. It’s easy to do. Registration is not required.
Digitization of the 1920 birth records completes Nova Scotia’s vital statistics releases for the year.
In April, Nova Scotia Archives released marriage records for 1945, and in July they released death records for 1970. Until the crowd-sourcing transcription process has been completed, the 1970 death records are not part of the main vital statistics search function, but they can still be searched by family name.
