The Digital Genealogy / Family Genes Special Interest Group has two areas of focus:

1. All things digital that can be used for genealogy research
2. The Family Genes service offered by our Society

The Digital Genealogy / Family Genes Special Interest Group meets the second Saturday of each month (except July and August) at 10 am. Meetings are held via Zoom or hybrid from the AFHS Library at 712 16 Ave NW in Calgary.

Jim does not have a formal agenda for this meeting. He says, “Being the Remembrance weekend, what say we bring memories of our family “war heroes” to the meeting?  What website/digital research were you able to do?  Any luck with the Canadian WW1 and WW2 war records in Ottawa?  Visited and photographed any battlefields?  Were there war brides in your line?  Could you reconstruct a timeline of your relative during his/her service (I have an old example)?  And can we use AI perhaps to do a writeup of the battle conditions for your veteran?”

Our special interest groups are a member benefit, but we welcome visitors! If the meeting is being held at the library and you live in the Calgary area, please just come to the library and introduce yourself. If you would like to attend a Zoom session as a guest, please email communications@afhs.ab.ca.

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For other Special Interest Group meetings and AFHS events, see our calendar.