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National Archives Catalog (NARA)
The US National Archives catalogue and scans — naturalisations, passenger lists, military service, land.
https://catalog.archives.gov/ ↗
Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1755–1764 Britain — the Grand Dérangement — THE TRAP for every Acadian line. The deportation scattered the population to the thirteen colonies, to England, to France, to Saint-Domingue and eventually to Louisiana. A family that vanishes from Nova Scotia in 1755 is not dead and is not in Nova Scotia — look in the Massachusetts town records, in the Poitou and Belle-Île registers in France, and in the Louisiana church registers from 1765.
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