Ireland’s Travellers

In this video about Ireland’s travellers, Alberta Family Histories Society President Ron Gilmore tells us about the lives, characteristics and the genealogy traits of the gypsies of Ireland, the Irish Travellers. These folks were a distinct group of people,...

Converting Clippings to Text

Do you have a stack of newspaper clippings perhaps pdf documents that you want to convert to text-based files? Want to retype them into your family study? Here is a quick and free shortcut to copy text-in-images into text based computer files in Windows, using the...

AI For Genealogists

Alberta Family Histories Society member John Smiley introduces a new technology for genealogists: Artificial Intelligence, or “AI”. A brief description is followed by a demonstration of ChatGPT, a free-to-use AI web tool. The technology behind ChatGPT is...
Western Wheel Newspaper Coverage

Western Wheel Newspaper Coverage

Western Wheel Newspaper Coverage. In addition to the CBC News Crew on hand in Okotoks during a recent cemetery visit, the local Western Wheel newspaper was also on hand. Read their article  here. The same article appears in Town and Country Today. More newsworthy...
A newsworthy field trip

A newsworthy field trip

A newsworthy field trip. AFHS volunteers have a long history of documenting cemetery burial information, going back as far as the mid to late 1970’s, even before the Society’s creation in 1980. Over the years, many members have stepped up to lead teams of intrepid...
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