New Brunswick Genealogical Society
The New Brunswick Genealogical Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 and dedicated to historical genealogical research in New Brunswick, Canada. It publishes the Generations genealogical journal and the New Brunswick Vital Statistics from Newspapers. NBGS host genealogical and history fairs in the local area.
History
NBGS was founded in November 1978, during a meeting of local genealogists.The society began publishing its journal, Generations, in June 1979.
Harold Fanjoy once served as president of the Saint John chapter of NBGS. He died in 2008.
Activities
In 2006, NBGS released First Families, a collection of records relating to the first 7,414 families to arrive in New Brunswick. The material is held at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick and was made available online. The records have not been updated since 2006, and are considered a "finding aid" only.In 2018, NBGS launched a project aimed at digitizing over 600 Anglican registers dating back to the 1790s.
Since 2019, NBGS has received government funding as a participant in the Canada Summer Jobs program.