With records going back to 1732 it is a huge job to get everything digitized and online. But according to Judy Barbee, Halifax's Register of Deeds, the task is getting smaller, having recently launched the Online Register of Deeds covering 1976 - 2004, and survey maps dating back to 1818 (601,000 and 8,300 documents respectively). For Genealogists and family history researchers alike, these treasure troves of information can fill in a range of gaps in many family trees.

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“People don’t realize how important this office is,” said Barbee. “We’ve got your records from birth to death and anything in between.”