ATCHA has also been maintaining scrapbooks of vital statistics from current issues of the Yarmouth, NS, newspaper, The Vanguard (published twice weekly) from 7 March 1979. These clippings include obituaries, births, weddings, anniversaries, engagements, in memoriams, and so on.
The archives currently has an every name index to all the obituaries 1979-1996, which provides the following information: name, death date (day, month & year), newspaper issue date (day, month & year), book number & page number. In this index, married women are indexed by both maiden and married names. Similar indexes for births and another for marriages, engagements and anniversaries are in progress.
The ATCHA collection also contains a number of scrapbooks compiled by different individuals, which contain a variety of vital statistics. The archives works on indexing this information as time permits.