Today Melanie and I divided our time: I wanted to go to Lunenburg and see the famous Canadian icon, the schooner Bluenose, that is found on their ten cent piece and on their stamps and Melanie wanted to go to the Public Archives of Nova Scotia to look for her ancestors that belonged to the Nugent branch. Me in the morning; she in the afternoon. As it turned out we both enjoyed each other’s quests. To get to Lunenburg one has to go through the coastal community of Mahone Bay with its line of church steeples on the waterfront. Nice settlement with believable historic building. Lunenburg itself was “quaint” and over run but I sucked it up long enough for Melanie to photography standing in front of the famous vessel.
The drive into Halifax was fun navigation and Melanie did herself grand with getting us within striking distance of the provincial archives. This was Melanie’s first time at doing genealogy research (my first time was at Swarthmore College) but this was different. We had to sign forms and got laminated cards with our names and a necklace card holder plus a locker for our gear because you could only bring pencil and paper into the research rooms. The staff was very helpful in getting Melanie started on her searching journey. I pitched in by going through all the names of the vessels that were listed in the 1730 to 1735 time period. After two hours, we were both ready to retreat with the information that we had gleaned.
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