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About This Week's Episode

Major General Lewis Mackenzie

Major General Lewis Wharton MacKenzie has strong family ties to Nova Scotia; but he discovers older family links to both the maritime community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the Loyalist Regiments of the American Revolution. The following resources may be of interest for those researching families from Nova Scotia or having mariners or Loyalists among their ancestors.

Resources featured in this week's episode:

• Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
  http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fma/
  new-frames-master.html
• About the Columbia
  www.downtosea.com/1926-1950/columbia.htm
• August Gales
  http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fma/august-gales.html
• On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies
  www.royalprovincial.com
• Thomas Raddall Research Centre
  www.queensmuseum.netfirms.com/index.html

Other resources available at Library and Archives Canada:

• Where to Search - Places: Nova Scotia
• What to Search - Topics: Military
• What to Search - Topics: Employment, Merchant Marine
• What to Search - Topics: Births, Marriages and Deaths, Divorce
• What to Search - Topics: Military, Loyalists

Other useful websites:

• Canadian Genealogy and History Links: Nova Scotia
  www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/nova-scotia.html
• Cape Ann Historical Museum
  www.capeannhistoricalmuseum.org/
• City of Gloucester, Mass.: Archives Archives - cemetery records search
  www.ci.gloucester.ma.us/index.php?
  module=pagemaster&PAGE;_user_op=view_page&PAGE;_id=278
• City of Gloucester, Mass.: Archives - Vital Records Search
  www.ci.gloucester.ma.us/index.php?
  module=pagemaster&PAGE;_user_op=view_page&PAGE;_id
  =237&MMN;_position=237:2
• Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics
  www.novascotiagenealogy.com/
• Service Nova Scotia: Genealogy
  www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/mun/m230.html
• "Tarleton's Legion" by Thomas H. Raddall
  www.mersey.ca/tarletonslegion.html