Nova Scotia Archives yesterday published on its website the province’s 1946 civil marriage registrations for transcription. The release is almost exactly a year after they published the 1945 marriages.
The good news is you can search the collection by the groom’s or bride’s surname while the transcribing work is being done.
To conduct a search of 1946 marriage records, you may first need to click on skip in the Transcribe registration box, and that should take you directly to the Search page.
If you’re looking for a popular name in Nova Scotia, such as MacDonald, be prepared to browse almost 300 marriage registrations. You’ll have better luck when searching McDonalds who married in 1946 because there are less than 40. If the groom or bride has a rarer name, try that one first.
Transcribing is rather easy. You can choose to transcribe one record or several.
Late yesterday, there was a hiccup with the transcription section, Transcribe, from time to time, but they should be resolved by now.
Civil registration of marriages in Nova Scotia began in 1758, with the introduction of procedures for obtaining a marriage licence. The licence was optional, surviving records are incomplete, and ‘calling the banns’ remained the preferred procedure for formalizing the marriage ritual. Mandatory civil registration of marriages began in 1864 and has continued since, although compliance was not universal throughout the province until the early 20th century.
