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CTV Calgary comes to Queen’s Park Cemetery
On Thursday, June 20, 2024, Kevin Fleming of CTV News was on hand at Queen’s Park Cemetery in Calgary to interview and film a handful of cemetery volunteers. The interviewees […]
BIFHSGO Conference – October 26 & 27
We have been asked to share the following information about the upcoming conference offered by the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa: Teaghlach Gaelach: a Celebration of Irish Family […]
Drone technology locating lost grave sites in southern Alberta
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 […]
The Shoebox
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 […]
The 1931 Canada Census Release
Bev Swan gives us an introduction to the release of the Canada Census of 1931, along with a few tips of finding your ancestors while awaiting the indexing process. Interested […]
