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...
Global News Article by By Micah Quintin & Quinn Campbell, posted November 22, 2023 Drones locating lost gravesites? A new initiative is helping to discover unmarked graves in eight cemeteries across Vulcan County. A group of students and researchers from the...
A shoebox full of papers is handed over to AFHS President Ron Gilmore while visiting relatives one summer. It contains some photos, letters and postcards connecting Ron to his grandfather who signed up to fight for Canada in World War I. These letters contain letters...
Lest we forget. AFHS Webmaster Jim Benedict shares a personal story of his Uncle who flew in Lancaster Bomber Airplanes for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during World War II. Here is a brief glimpse into his life in Calgary, his military record, and his marker...
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,...
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...
