The High River News has a great article on our AFHS cemetery field team. Published on July 5 by Derek Craddock. Pictured are Heather Williams, Wendy Schultz and several of our volunteers, taken at Queen’s Park Cemetery in Calgary. The article mentions some of...
Handwritten family trees Digitizing handwritten family trees. Handwritten family trees containing names of a million and a quarter people from the medieval period onwards will be shared online by Britain’s leading genealogy society. Digital images of the 10,000...
California Slavery Reparations California has approved a plan to pay reparations to residents of the state who can show they are descendants of those formerly enslaved. Seeking the evidence will be a process, genealogists say. This will be a rewarding major boost to...
DNA Research finds father. A Calgary man had been searching for his biological father for two years, pouring over family trees and genetic matches. “I had papers everywhere. It was all over the floor”. Finally, through a Toronto match, he found a match,...
Prairie Sky is Calgary’s Newest Cemetery. The first cemetery to be opened in Calgary was Queen’s Park Cemetery, in the Mount Pleasant and Confederation Park area. The Prairie Sky Cemetery, located near Ralph Klein Park in the city’s Southeast. For...