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Category Archives: Resources
Quick Reference “QR” Codes – A great way to share more information in tiny spaces
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 … Continue reading
Cemetery lookup indexes
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 … Continue reading
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Beginning Your Family History
The Alberta Family Histories Society’s own Kay Clarke and Diane Granger have put together a great beginners’ course on Beginning Your Family History. This program will take you step-by-step through identifying what you already know about your family, deciding what … Continue reading
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Picture of life in 1911 is completed as remaining 1911 census records go online
Editor’s note: We haven’t normally been posting these news releases on the AFHS blog but this was just too good to pass up. Enjoy! ———————————————————– The final, missing column of data from the 1911 census, which details individuals’ infirmities is … Continue reading
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AFHS Chinook News
“Photo of a couple who emigrated to Canada in 1910, via the United States – he originally from Switzerland and she from Germany – celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in Alberta in 1950” Chinook News by Wayne Shepheard, Editor … Continue reading