If you are thinking about attending the Find Your Tree in the Forest conference in April, you still have time to get in on the Early Bird Special!
Register by March 15 for a discount. Visit the official website for more details.
Assist other researchers by helping to grow our information databases.
Transcribers needed. Help the Projects Committee record newspaper births, marriages and deaths (BMD) announcements.
Contact Heather Williams for more information: projects [at] afhs.ab.ca
Search our growing BMD Database now!
Quick Reference (QR) codes, those little squares with digital-looking maze-like patterns in them, are popping up in more and more places these days. Now genealogists are finding they can use them to share a lot of information in very small spaces.
Just scan the code with your smartphone and you are taken to a site with more information. If, for instance, the QR code is on a headstone, you may be presented with stories and images of that person’s life. If the QR code is on a business card, you may instantly be taken to a website.
GeneaBloggers‘ Thomas MacEntee recently gave a talk called Genealogical Uses for QR Codes at RootsTech in Salt Lake City. An article on deseretnews.com says:
“Some of the genealogical uses MacEntee identified for QR Codes are linking to family trees, providing citation information at the bottom of a document and for referring people to particular pages in research databases.”
For more on Thomas’ presentation: QR Codes can ‘expand the experience’ of genealogists
For more about QR codes and a good image, read Wikipedia’s article.
Since the Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) first had a website, the Projects Committee has offered a searchable index to its Cemetery Transcriptions Database. This database, which has been recorded over the past 25 years by numerous volunteers, is based on monument and burial information from various cemeteries in Calgary and the surrounding region.
AFHS offers a cemeteries information database
Basic information in this index includes
This index is an precursor to a planned mega-database, which will include monument inscriptions, burial data and marker photographs.
For more information, visit AFHS’s Cemetery lookup indexes page.
The Public Relations Committee is an important part of what AFHS does. But, due to circumstances beyond its control, the PR Committee has recently suffered some setbacks by way of losing some valuable members. We are looking for new members to assist in their places.
Can you help?
Please consider joining the PR team! We need you! Currently, we are preparing for an upcoming conference and require some assistance.
Send an email to pr (at) afhs.ab.ca if interested.
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