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I posted this message as a reply to a thread on this board but thought there might be others interested who wouldn't necessarily see it that way so am reposting it as an independent message. Just as an interesting bit of information in the 1901 Census of Canada there were 1196 Conrads (that doesn't include other variations of the name). Of those 1055 lived in Nova Scotia
This is not name that I am connected to or researching however, I thought I could help as I am familiar with researching these Lunenburg County German families
The Conrads/Conraed/Conrod/Conrat settled in Lunenburg County as part of a large group of settlers sponsored by the British Government after the Expulsion of the Acadians. Several shiploads of mostly German/Swiss arrived in 1755/1756 and are referred to by historians here as the Lunenburg Foreign Protestants (you can Google this for more information. They are an interesting group and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (of Bluenose fame) has been designated a UN Heritage Site because of its unique character. Now to the research part.
The very best site for reasearching the earliest settlers is Chris Youngs site
www.seawhy.com
It will keep a person busy for a month
There is also quite a bit of information on the NS GenWeb site
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canns/lunenburg/index.html
There were unfortunately not a lot of records kept in Nova Scotia before 1850 but what there is is found in the above sites.
Nova Scotia Vital Stats are available free at
www.novascotiagenealogy.ca
You will need to download a free viewer program from the site; its pretty straightforward. Then you can search for and see the actual record. It includes Birth 1864 to 1877, Delayed Births 1836-1907, Marriages 1864 to 1932 Deaths 1864 to 1877 and 1908 to 1957. Vital Stat record keeping in Nova Scotia didn't become legislated until after 1900 so there are gaps but you can usually find at least one record on a particular individual who lived during the time period
The 1871 Census of Canada is the first to list all members of the family- before that it was Head of Household only. To the best of my knowledge there is nowhere online where it is availabe in its entirety although bits and pieces of it have been made available by individuals at the Nova Scotia GenWeb site.
The 1881 Canadian Census is availble free at the LDS site
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp
The 1891 Census is the same as the 1871 but the 1901 and 1911 Census are available free in a searchable format at
www.automatedgenealogy.com
Hope this helps in researching your Nova Scotia Roots.
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