Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

• That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
• We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
• On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Halls Harbour (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Halls Harbour. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Halls Harbour ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Another variation: Hall Harbour.

• A typical abbreviation for Halls Harbour: Halls Hbr. (or less commonly used: Halls Harb. or Halls Hrbr.)

• While the name of this community is Halls Harbour, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Halls Harbour may originally have been Hall's Harbour.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Halls Harbour might be written as Hall Harbour.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Halls Harbour:

• Websites specific to Nova Scotia
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Nova Scotia
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Nova Scotia
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Nova Scotia
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Nova Scotia
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Nova Scotia

Cemeteries Near Halls Harbour ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Halls Harbour.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Halls Harbour covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Halls Harbour, with the one closest to Halls Harbour listed first.

• East Halls Harbour United Baptist Church Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • The East Halls Harbour United Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • East Halls Harbour Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Halls Harbour United Baptist Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2550746 <2>
• Lakeview Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2439295 <2>
• Billtown United Baptist Church Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • The Billtown United Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Billtown United Baptist Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Billtown United Baptist Church Cemetery
• East Black Rock Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Black Rock Cemetery
• Rand Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Rand Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rand Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2520197 <2>
• Elm Grove Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Elm Grove Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the south of Kentville.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elm Grove Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2476559 <2>
• Upper Canard Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upper Canard Cemetery
• Holy Cross Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
• Chipmans Corner Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chipmans Corner Cemetery
• Jawbone Corner Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • The Jawbone Corner Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Canard Cemetery
  • Jaw Bone Corner Cemetery
  • Jawbone Corner / Canard Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jawbone Corner Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2212324 <2>
• Hillaton Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillaton Cemetery
• Burlington Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Burlington Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2312830 <2>
• Continue List   (55 more) ...
  • Cambridge Baptist Church Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cambridge Baptist Church Cemetery is located in Cambridge.
    • The Cambridge Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cambridge Baptist Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cambridge Baptist Church Cemetery
  • Berwick Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Berwick Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Berwick.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Berwick Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2212236 <2>
  • Babitant Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Babitant Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2357402 <2>

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Halls Harbour. See our List of 1890's Communities around Halls Harbour.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Halls Harbour. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Nova Scotia: https://novascotia.ca