fh events

2-3 May 2026

Nova Scotla Genealogy Virtual Conference 2026 –  Registration Now Open.
nsgnonference.ca 
May 2-3, 2026

9:00AM-5:30PM ADT (UTC 03:00)
Zoom session recordings available for 60 Days

$39 for GANS Members / $69 for non-members
(tip: join GANS for only_$59 annually_!)

Speakers and Subjects:

– Bob Chaulk: Researching People Along the Halifax Rail Cut
– Daniel Horowitz: Genealogy Madness: What Did I Get Wrong?
– Andrea Lister: A Wolfe in Dewolfe Clothing: Dewolfe Family Research
– Kathy Litwin: Using NS Land Records and Deeds to Locate Your Family
– Paul Maxner: What’s new from the Nova Scotia Archives
– Gabriel Milhet: Black Professionals in Early 1900s Halifax
– Brian Nash: Scottish Kirk & its Records in NS – ‘Free‘ vs. ‘Auld’
– Ken Paulsen: 17005 Foreign Protestants’ Inheritance Practices
– Judy 5- Russell: WWW
– Claire Smith-Burns: The Hunt for Hon. Michael Wallace’s Parents
– Mark Thompson: New Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Genealogy
– Deborah Trask: Nova Scotia Gravestone; and Genealogy
– Jean-Yves Vanier-Verbeek: Acadian history and genealogical research: The parish registers of the 
   Declarations of Belle-IIe-en-Mer

Also: Brick Wall Busters session (submit your mystery!)
& optional Workshop: Legal Records for NS Genealogy Visit NSgenConference.ca for more info!