Phase One of the NB Scottish web Protal Started

Stories like Capt. John Hamilton will be highlighted

The NB Scottish Web Portal Advisory Committee has held two meetings with our third coming up on April 21^st.  We are on schedule with the project and have officially started phase one with the hiring of Melynda Jarratt and her business Maven New Media .  We have also started mapping the layout of the actual portal.   In April will we will begin the hard cord research that is going to be needed to bring the information and data to the portal.   We will be looking at the 1851 census and family histories and individual biographies.

It was the Scots who literally opened up New Brunswick

The committee is also looking at holding workshops around the province to provide training for those people who will be helping with the search.  This training will make sure that everyone recording the data is recording the information in a constant way and to establish some rules for everyone to follow to make sure we have a regular flow of material.

I would encourage everyone to review phase one to find what this phase will include and if you know of anyone that might have information that should be included on this phase please contact us.   

I would also like to encourage you to review the map that we have created listing Scottish settlements through out New Brunswick.  We might have missed a few and we want to make sure we don’t miss a settlement.  

We will be telling the story of people like Lauchlan Donaldson

Last but not least we are always asking for financial help to see this project through to its end.  If you make a monetary contribution to the project you can do so by visiting our donation section