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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 […]
Digitizing handwritten family trees
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 […]
DNA Research finds father
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 […]
WW1 Soldier has Calgarian Connection
A WW1 Soldier has a Calgarian Connection March 30, 2022 – Ottawa – National Defense / Canadian Armed Forces The Department of National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces have confirmed […]
AFHS Library is now a FamilySearch Affiliate Library!
AFHS Library is now a FamilySearch Affiliate Library! This is exciting news because some of FamilySearch’s vast record sets can only be accessed at a FamilySearch location. You can use […]
