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The Nova Scotia Archives (NSA) offices have extensive files on grants and petitions for land for Nova Scotia. '''The Registry of Deeds''' for each county has '''indexes''' to grantors and grantees for all the different types of transactions; mortgages, deeds, leases, releases, liens, sheriff’s deeds, court orders, and some wills involving real estate.  
The Nova Scotia Archives (NSA) offices have extensive files on grants and petitions for land for Nova Scotia. '''The Registry of Deeds''' for each county has '''indexes''' to grantors and grantees for all the different types of transactions; mortgages, deeds, leases, releases, liens, sheriff’s deeds, court orders, and some wills involving real estate.  
med by the Genealogical Society of Utah and copies are available at the Nova Scotia Archives and on loan through any FamilySearch Center.


Most of these records have been microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and copies are available at the Nova Scotia Archives and on loan through any FamilySearch Center.


The boundaries of the counties have changed over the years and the following chart gives the details and years that records are available on film.
*''Land Records, 1763-1914; index, 1784-1877'' are found on 95 films beginning with {{FHL|82415|item|disp=FHL film 1378554}} available through FamilySearch Centers. <br>


*''Crown Land Grants, 1854-1967'' can be found on 14 FHL films {{FHL|25139|item|disp=beginning with film 465201}}, the index is on film 466413, again available through FamilySearch Centers.
*''Crown Land Grants, 1854-1967'' can be found on 14 FHL films {{FHL|25139|item|disp=beginning with film 465201}}, the index is on film 466413, again available through FamilySearch Centers.
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