Research Help

The links below will help researchers to locate material on specific subjects within The Loyalist Collection.

Recommended process and sources to use when researching individual loyalists in The Loyalist Collection. Document ResearchALoyalist.pdf Reputable online sources which are useful for researching loyalists. Document OnlineLoyalistResources.pdf Tips for researching and for information on loyalist women. Document Finding Loyalist Women.pdf Help to answer research questions surrounding how loyalists made a living before, during, and after the war. Document LoyalistTradesOccupations.pdf Loyalist "Blocks" of land granted in New Brunswick by military group. Document Loyalist-Blocks-NB.pdf Best practices for doing research in archives, libraries, museums, and historical organizations, both in person and by remote request. Document GettingMostResearch.pdf African Diaspora Sources to locate people of the African Diaspora in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Document AfricanDiasporaChecklist.pdf Documents from The Loyalist Collection related to slavery and enslaved people. Document Loyalists and Slavery Maritimes Primary UPDATE.pdf Indigenous Sources

Indigenous primary source material in The Loyalist Collection. Document Indigenous Primary Loyalist Collection.pdf Other Settler Groups Sources for locating members of the regular British military who served during the American Revolution. Document ResearchBritishRegMilitary.pdf
General Genealogy

Selected Genealogy Resources at the Harriet Irving Library. Document GenealogySelectedResourcesHIL.pdf Glossary to assist in the use of the records of the New Brunswick Count Court of the General Quarter Sessions. Document Glossary-NB-County-Court-Records.pdf Palaeography Help

Tips for reading historical, handwritten documents. Document Palaeography Help.pdf Examples of cursive writing from the late eighteenth-century British Atlantic World. Document RevolutionaryLetterExamples.pdf