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Finding Your Roots, Season 4 PBS Distribution, 2018 DVD 929.1 G25fc

Guide to Genealogy by Tamara J. Resler, 2018 J929.1 R43g

Genealogical The Pearl Sister: CeCe’s Story by Lucinda Riley, 2018 FIC Resources Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, 4th

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Issue #46 – Fall 2018 Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com: How to Find Your Family History on the #1 Genealogy Website, 2nd ed. by Nancy Hendrickson, 2018 929.10285 A53h1

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Back to Beer...And Hockey: The Story of Eric Molson

by Helen Antoniou, 2018 663.4 M72a

Recent Additions to Courage, Sacrifice and Betrayal: The Story of the Victoria Rifles of Canada, 60th the Collection Battalion, in the First World War by Richard R. Pyves, 2018 940.41 P99c Items listed below without a Ref. designation may be borrowed. Call 604-331-3603 to request The Cowkeeper’s Wish: A Genealogical a book, or place your request through the online Journey catalogue at www.vpl.bibliocommons.com. by Tracy Kasaboski and Kristen den Hartog, 2018 Ref. items must be used in the library. 929.2 K19c

General Finding Mr. Wong by Susan Crean, 2018

c828 C912f The Adoptee’s Guide to DNA Testing: How to Use Genetic Genealogy to Discover Your Floating City: A Novel Long-Lost Family by Kerri Sakamoto, 2018 by Tamar Weinberg, 2018 FIC 929.1 W423a

1 Claiming the Land: British Columbia and Hard Work Conquers All: Building the the Making of a New El Dorado Finnish Community in Canada by Daniel Marshall, 2018 edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, 971.102 M36c and Ronald N. Harpelle, 2018 971.004 H25b First Contacts in the Northern Salish Sea by Jim McDowell, 2017 Julia: A Biography of Julia W. Henshaw Ref. 970P M138f by Michael Kluckner, 2018 971.05 H52k

The Order of Canada: Genesis of an nd Last of the Railway Loggers: The History of Honours System, 2 ed. Canada’s Nimpkish Valley Railway 1908 to by Christopher McCreery, 2018 2017 929.8 M13o1 by Robert S. Macham and Maynard E. Atkinson, 2018 Rough Work: Labourers on the Public Ref. 385.09 N71m Works of British North America and Canada, 1841-1882 Marjorie Her War Years: A British Home by Ruth E. Bleasdale, 2018 Child in Canada 331.0971 B64r by Patricia Skidmore, 2018 362.73 A74sa Tales of Arctic Whaling: Collected Writings on Arctic History A Mill Behind Every Stump by Kenn Harper, 2018 by Marianne Van Osch, 2018 639.28 H29t 338.37 J93vLU

An Uncommon Road: How Canadian Sikhs Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Struggled Out of the Fringes and into the Kootenay Farm, 1896-2017 Mainstream by Cole Harris, 2018 by Gian Singh Sandhu, 2018 971.162 H31h 305.89141 S21u What Comes to Light: Stories of Still Creek British Columbia Lost & Found by Carmen Rosen, 2017 Against the Current: The Remarkable Life of 971.133 R81w Agnes Deans Cameron by Cathy Converse, 2018 Ontario 971.103 C182c

̓ Exile Air: World War II’s “Little Norway” in Cəsnaʔəm: The City Before the City Toronto and Muskoka directed and produced by Elle-Maija by Andrea Baston, 2017 Tallfeathers, 2017 358.4009481 B32e DVD 970.3 C65T1c The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Children of the Kootenays: Memories of Everyday Life Mining Towns edited by Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, by Shirley D. Stainton, 2018 Tatum Taylor, and John Lorinc, 2018 971.162 S78c 971.354 W251m

2 Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quebec Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex Wagner, 2018 Montreal: The History of a North American 929.2 W13f City edited by Dany Fougères and Roderick God, War, and Providence: The Epic MacLeod, 2017 Struggle of Roger Williams and the 971.428 M811f Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England Atlantic Canada by James A. Warren, 2018 974.5 W28g

Called to Serve: Georgina Pope, Canadian Growing Up in San Francisco’s Chinatown: Military Nursing Heroine Boomer Memories From Noodle Rolls to by Katherine Elizabeth Dewar, 2018 Apple Pie 940.475 P82d by Edmund S. Wong, 2018 305.8951 W872g Nova Scotia’s Lost Communities: The Early Settlements That Helped Build the Province Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Joan Dawson, 2018 by Allie Rowbottom, 2018 971.6 D27ns 306.87 R87j

United States Journey to Kaho’olawe concept by Hans Winkler and T’uy’t’tanat- An American Princess: The Many Lives of Cease Wyss, 2017 Allene Tew 709.0407 W77j by Annejet van der Zijl, 2018 973.91 T35z Journeys: An American Story compiled by Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas, An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of 2018 Family and Slavery 305.800973 J86t by Rachel May, 2018 326.9 M46a

The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the Philip’s War American West by Lisa Tanya Brooks, 2018 by Gregory Crouch, 2018 973.2 B87o 979.3 M15c

Your Dad Stole My Rake and Other Family The Chinese Exclusion Act Dilemmas PBS, 2018 by Tom Papa, 2018 DVD 305.8951 C5391b 827 P213y

The Family Tree Historical Newspapers Guide: How to Find Your Ancestors in British Isles Archived Newspapers by James M. Beidler, 2018 The Black Prince: England’s Greatest 929.1 B42f Medieval Warrior by Michael K. Jones, 2018 942.037 E251j

3 The Debatable Land: The Lost World Europe Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb, 2018 Aida’s Secrets 941.37 R63d Music Box Films, 2018 DVD 306.85 A28s Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution The Cut Out Girl by Priya Satia, 2018 by Bart van Es, 2018 338.47 S25e MUN 940.5318 D32v

Hadrian’s Wall Heroines of the Medieval World by Adrian Goldsworthy, 2018 by Sharon Bennett Connolly, 2017 942.8 G62h 305.4094 C75h

London at War, 1939-1945: A Nation’s The Imperial Tea Party Capital Survives by Frances Welch, 2018 by Alan Jeffreys, 2018 947.083 W43i 940.5342 J46L The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Century in Five Lives and One Legendary Fury and Feminism – Women’s Fight for House Change by Norman Eisen, 2018 by Tessa Boase, 2018 943.71 E36L 305.40941 P19b Africa RAF 100: The Official Story, 1918-2018 by James Holland, 2018 358.4 R64h For Crown and Country: The South African and First World Wars Rise Up, Women!: The Remarkable Lives of by Tim Cook, 2017 the Suffragettes 968.04 C77f by Diane Atkinson, 2018 324.623 A87r Asia

Scottish Genealogy, 4th ed. The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the by Bruce Durie, 2017 End of Empire 929.3411 D96s2 by Deborah Baker, 2018 954.035 B16L Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in by David Cannadine, 2017 China 941.081 C224v by Rao Pingru, 2018 951.05 P65o The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred’s Britain, 789-955 The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death by Max Adams, 2018 of a Rebel of 1857 942.016 A21v by Kim A. Wagner, 2018 954.031 W13s

4 holdings of historical maps and fire insurance New at the Vancouver Public plans. We wish to thank all of our patrons for their patience and we look forward to resuming Library public service.

Restricted FamilySearch Images Now VPL Special Collections Available at VPL’s Central Library Sometimes when you are looking at records at Central Library Expansion FamilySearch.org you’ll see an image labelled, The top two floors of the iconic Central branch of the Vancouver Public Library have been transformed into a collection of community This used to mean that you needed to visit a spaces which encourage collaboration, Family History Centre to view the image. Now creation and connection within our community. you can come down to the Central Library at Discover what our expanded spaces have to 350 West Georgia and use any of our public offer. computers to view the image. You will be able www.vpl.ca/garden to save the image on a USB stick or email it to yourself. New from Records available include church records from Great Britain, probate records from Ontario, the Library and Archives Canada full text of family history books and much more.

To date, over 1.5 million microfilms (approximately 1.5 billion images) have been Blog and news postings of recent additions and digitized by FamilySearch, including all updated information on the Library and microfilms which were borrowed in the last five Archives Canada website include: years.  100th anniversary of the Spanish flu Please note that some digital images may still outbreak: new Co-Lab challenge have privacy, copyright, contractual, or other www.bac- restrictions which limit access even at the lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2018/spani Central Library. sh-flu-co-lab-challenge.aspx  Database of 620,000 First World War Special Collections Reopens personnel files completed to mark anniversary of Canada’s 100 Days The Vancouver Public Library is excited to www.bac- share that Special Collections at the Central lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2018/First- Library will resume full public service on the World-War-database-completed.aspx 29th of September. With the seventh floor of the  First World War nursing sisters library closed during the renovations of the challenge added to Co-Lab building’s top floors, the Reading Room has www.bac- been closed and we have not been able to lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2018/first- provide access to this unique collection for 12 world-war-nursing-sisters-co- months. On Saturday the 29th, we look forward lab.aspx to offering the full range of Reading Room and  Library and Archives Canada’s blog research services: access to the rare books series on Canadian Victoria Cross collection and the Northwest History Index; recipients access to the historical photograph negatives thediscoverblog.com/tag/vc-series collection; and access to our extensive

5  Recent documents digitized through the Updated and New United Kingdom and DigiLab Ireland Databases thediscoverblog.com/2018/06/01/rece  1939 England and Wales Register nt-documents-digitized-through-the-  Aberdeen City and Former Counties of digilab/ Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Electoral  Researching early census records Registers, 1832-1976 thediscoverblog.com/2018/08/21/rese  Cambridgeshire, England, Electoral arching-early-census-records/ Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books, 1722-1966 Library and Archives Canada has added new  Cambridgeshire, England, Juror Books, images on Flickr to their website. Some of 1828-1883 these new images include:  Cheshire, England, Extracted Church of  Aluminum Industry England Parish Records, 1564-1837  Bird’s Eye-View  England and Scotland, Select Cemetery  Canada Washes Registers, 1800-2016  Celebrating the Outaouais  England & Wales, Civil Registration  First Special Service Force (Devil’s Marriage Index, 1916-2005 Brigade)  England and Wales, Death Index, 2007-  Japanese-Canadians: Second World 2017 War  Liverpool, England, Catholic Baptisms,  Podcast Images: Canada’s Canoe 1741-1916 Archive  Liverpool, England, Catholic Burials,  Port of Montreal 1813-1985  Racing  Liverpool, England, Catholic  Rugby Confirmations, 1813-1922  Tintype Photographs  Liverpool, England, Catholic Marriages,  Victoria Cross Recipients 1754-1932 Check out these images and more at:  Norfolk, England, Bishop and www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/albums Archdeacon Transcripts of Parish Registers, 1600-1935  Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2017 News from  Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937  Surrey, England, Electoral Registers,

1832-1962  UK, Allied Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 This popular database for genealogical  UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004- research is available at all branches of 2018 Vancouver Public Library.  UK, Historical Photographs and Prints, 1704-1989 Updated and New Canadian Databases  UK, Mechanical Engineer Records,  Canada, Obituary Collection, 1898-2018 1847-1938  Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records,  Web: UK, Coal Mining Accidents and 1637-1935 Deaths Index, 1878-1935  U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in  Web: UK, Register of Railway Employee America, Swedish American Church Injuries and Deaths, 1911-1915 Records, 1800-1946

6 FamilySearch has added millions of records online from around the world. Check out the new and updated collections that have been News from added to Continental Europe, South America and the United States. Click on Last Updated to get the latest additions to the collections. Updated and New Canadian Collections  Canada Census, 1871 Continental Europe  Canada Census, 1881 www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list  Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922 /?page=1®ion=EUROPE&fcs=region%3A  New Brunswick Late Registration of EUROPE&ec=region%3AEUROPE Births, 1810-1899  Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and South America Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947 www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list  United States, Border Crossings from /?page=1®ion=SOUTH_AMERICA&fcs=r Canada to United States, 1894-1954 egion%3ASOUTH_AMERICA&ec=region%3 ASOUTH_AMERICA United Kingdom and Ireland Collections Recently Added or Updated United States of America www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list  England and Wales, National Index of /?page=1®ion=UNITED_STATES&fcs=re Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957 gion%3AUNITED_STATES&ec=region%3AU  England, Derbyshire, Church of England NITED_STATES Parish Registers, 1537-1918

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Marriages, 1660-1912 Complete Archive of Ellis Island  England, Devon Bishop’s Transcripts, 1558-1887 Records – Now Online for Free  England, Lancashire, Oldham Cemetery The complete collection of Ellis Island Registers, 1797-2004 passenger lists is available online and  England, Leicestershire Parish searchable at FamilySearch in three Registers, 1533-1991 collections:  England, Norfolk, Parish Registers  New York Passenger Lists (Castle Garden) (County Record Office), 1510-1997 1820-1891 www.familysearch.org/search/collection/  England, Northamptonshire, Non- 1849782?collectionNameFilter=false conformist Records, 1647-1840  New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis  England, Northumberland, Parish Island),1892-1924 Registers, 1538-1950 www.familysearch.org/search/collection/  Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913 1368704?collectionNameFilter=false  Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-  New York, New York Passenger and Crew 1950 Lists, 1909, 1925-1957  Wales Court and Miscellaneous www.familysearch.org/search/collection/ Records, 1542-1911 1923888?collectionNameFilter=false  Wales, Marriage Bonds, 1650-1900  Wales, Parish Registers, 1678-2001 Learn more at: www.familysearch.org/blog/en/ archive-ellis-island-records

7  Norfolk Borough Records 1317-1981 FindMyPast * Browse  Norfolk Land Tax Assessments 1665- Check out these new and updated additions to 1837 Browse the FindMyPast Collections at:  Norfolk Parish Chest Records 1300- www.findmypast.com 1990 Browse  Norfolk Parish Registers Browse  Airmen Died in The Great War, 1914-  Northumberland and Durham Memorial 1919 Inscriptions  Britain, Royal Navy, Navy Lists 1827-  Northumberland Registers & Records 1945  Nottinghamshire Registers & Records  British Armed Forces, First World War  Rutland Registers & Records Soldiers’ Medical Records  Scotland, Berwickshire, Ladykirk Heads  British in India, Directories 1792-1948 of Household 1811 Browse  Scotland, Edinburgh Apprentices 1583-  British Subjects Who Died in the Service 1700 of the Indian Empire  Scotland, Edinburgh Marriages 1595-  Buckinghamshire Registers & Records 1800  Cambridgeshire Registers & Records  Scotland, Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s  Cheshire Registers & Records Census 1790  Cumberland Registers & Records  Scotland, Edinburgh Temperance  Derbyshire Registers & Records Pledges 1886-1908  Devon Registers & Records  Scotland, Fife Death Index, 1549-1877  Dorset Memorial Inscriptions  Scotland, Jacobite Histories 1715-1745  England, Clandestine Marriages  Scotland, Lanarkshire Death & Burial  Honourable Women of The Great War, Index 1642-1855 1914-1918  Scotland, Perthshire, Inhabitants of The  Ireland, British Army Officers 1914-1918 Burgh of Perth 1766  Ireland, Dublin Metropolitan Police  Scotland, Shetland, Tingwall List of General Register 1837-1925 Inhabitants 1785  Ireland, Dublin Metropolitan Police  Scotland, Testaments 1514-1800 Prisoners Books 1905-1908 and 1911-  Scots-Irish in North America Histories 1918  Shropshire Registers & Records  Irish Officers Died in The Great War,  Somerset Registers & Records 1914-1919  South Lancashire Regiment Prisoners of  Kent, Lydd Midwife’s Birth Register War 1914-1918 1757-1815  Staffordshire Registers & Records  Kent Poor Law Union 1835-1841  Surrey Baptisms  Kent Registers & Records  Thames & Medway Baptisms  Lancashire Banns & Marriages  Thames & Medway Burials  Lancashire Baptisms  United Kingdom Deaths 2007-2016  Lancashire Burials  Wales Collection  Lancashire Parish Registers Browse  Welsh Registers & Records  Lancashire Registers & Records  Westmorland Registers & Records  Montgomeryshire Memorial Inscriptions  Wiltshire Baptism Index 1530-1917  Norfolk Archdeacon’s Transcripts 1600-  Wiltshire Burials Index 1538-1990 1812 Image Browse  Wiltshire Marriages Index 1538-1933  Wiltshire Registers & Records

8  Wiltshire Social & Institutional Records New England 1123-1968  Worcestershire Probate Index 1600- American-Canadian Genealogical Society 1858 acgs.org/  Yorkshire Burials Congregational Library & Archives NOTE: Full access to all is by subscription. www.congregationallibrary.org

However, you can now access FindMyPast for Daughters of the American Revolution free at the Vancouver Public Library’s Central www.dar.org Library with the new Library and Archives Canada service. General Society of Mayflower Descendants www.themayflowersociety.org/

Library of Congress Chronicling America Search the historic newspapers of these New England States from 1789 to 1963. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

National Archives at Boston www.archives.gov/boston Getting Started... New England Historic Genealogical Society United States American Ancestors New England www.americanancestors.org/index.aspx

(Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)

Connecticut Historical Society Are you looking for your New England chs.org ancestors? Genealogists can begin their search with Ancestry Library Edition Connecticut State Library (accessible at the Vancouver Public Library) Digital Collections and/or with the United States data collections cslib.cdmhost.com at FamilySearch.

Mystic Seaport Museum Also, check out the following as potentially Collections & Online Resources useful tools and resources, where everything research.mysticseaport.org/collections from research guides to searchable databases to digital collections are available for family University of Connecticut historians researching their New England Connecticut Digital Archive roots. collections.ctdigitalarchive.org

Please NOTE that some tools and resources Yale University Library may require either a subscription or Digital Collections membership for full access. web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections

Maine University of New Hampshire Digital Collections www.library.unh.edu/digital Maine Historical Society www.mainehistory.org/gen_overview.shtml

Maine Memory Network Rhode Island www.mainememory.net Rhode Island Department of State Maine State Archives The Rhode Island State Library www.maine.gov/sos/arc sos.ri.gov/divisions/Civics-And- Education/state-library

Massachusetts Rhode Island Department of State State Archives

sos.ri.gov/divisions/Civics-And- Boston Public Library Education/archives Special Collections www.bpl.org/special-collections- Rhode Island Genealogical Society departments/ rigensoc.org

Digital Commonwealth Rhode Island Historical Society Massachusetts Collections Online www.rihs.org www.digitalcommonwealth.org/

Harvard University Library Explore Collections Vermont library.harvard.edu/explore-collections Genealogical Society of Vermont Massachusetts Archives www.genealogyvermont.org www.sec.state.ma.us/arc University of Vermont Libraries Massachusetts Historical Society Digital Collections www.masshist.org cdi.uvm.edu/

State Library of Massachusetts Vermont Historical Society www.mass.gov/orgs/state-library-of- vermonthistory.org massachusetts Vermont State Archives and Records Administration New Hampshire www.sec.state.vt.us/archives-records.aspx

New Hampshire Historical Society www.nhhistory.org

New Hampshire State Library Genealogy and NH History www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/public/genealogy

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10 BC Archives has upgraded its Collections Canadian Archives, Museums Search database. To learn about the changes, you can review their search tips guide, as well and Genealogical Societies as, view a short introductory video. search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

Archives of Ontario The Changing Shape of Ontario City of Edmonton Archives With the help of a new zoom feature and high The City of Edmonton Archives has quality images, you can view interactive maps launched a new website which include digital for Ontario’s southern counties and northern objects such as photographs and digitized districts. bylaws. Explore this new initiative at: www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/maps/index.aspx cityarchives.edmonton.ca/

Arnprior & McNab / Braeside Nova Scotia Archives Archives Directories from Nova Scotia Archives AMBA Newspaper Collection Holdings The newspaper issues up to 1937 of the McAlpine’s Halifax City Directories from Arnprior & McNab/ Braeside Archives have 1900-1901 to 1926-1927 are now available been digitized. However, note that there are online. missing years and gaps. View at: www.novascotia.ca/archives/directories/list. search.adarchives.org/findingaid/ asp newspapers Historical Vital Statistics An additional 28,124 historical vital statistics Bibliothèque et Archives nationals du have been added to the website. Birth records Québec for 1917, marriage records for 1942 and death The History of Stanstead County, Province records for 1967 have been digitized and fully of Quebec, With Sketches of More Than indexed. Five Hundred Families www.novascotiagenealogy.com The book, The History of Stanstead County, Province of Quebec, With Sketches of More Provincial Archives of New Than Five Hundred Families compiled by B.F. Hubbard, has been recent digitized. Brunswick numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52 Vital Statistics from Government Records 327/3259516?docref=g5Ik2Osh0mI0HV7JTV Digitized images of death certificates for 1967 v4rA and 5,122 original marriage records for 1965 have been added to the vital statistics search Browse Bibliothèque et Archives nationals engine of the Provincial Archives of New du Québec’s Digital Collection at: Brunswick. www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_num archives.gnb.ca/Search/VISSE/default.aspx erique/ ?culture=en-CA

British Columbia Archives Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan Civil Registration Records Saskatchewan History Magazine Death records for 1997 and marriage records The entire collection of back issues of the for 1942 are now available from the British Saskatchewan History Magazine from 1948 Columbia Archives. to 2017 are now online. Access all 182 issues search- at: collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy www.saskarchives.com/sask-history- magazine

11 Then, explore their popular subjects, featured Canadian Universities and collections and virtual exhibits features. Take a glimpse into what your ancestors might have Libraries been reading as children with the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books. www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Er Memorial University of Newfoundland p=20&N=38537+38533&view=grid Maritime History Archive Keith Matthews Name Files University of British Columbia – Are you researching your Newfoundland and Okanagan Campus Labrador family roots? Check out this new Digitized Okanagan History addition to the Maritime History Archive In partnerships with local archives, museums where the files of the surnames beginning with and heritage sites, the University of British the letters A – O and Q are now available. Columbia – Okanagan Campus has digitized However, this is still very much a work in materials such as books, photographs, maps, progress. microfilm, and other documents on the history www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/keith/index.php of the Okanagan region. Access this collection at: 1881 Crew Lists Database doh.arcabc.ca/ Still very much a work in progress, the Maritime History Archive have now added University of Calgary names of more than 344,000 seamen to their 1881 Crew Lists Database, which include Libraries and Cultural Resources crew agreements from the voyages of British Digital Collections registered vessels that ended in 1881. Our Roots/Our Future, Our Past Digital www.mun.ca/mha/1881/crews1881.php Collections from the University of Calgary are migrating to a new platform. Collections such SFU Digitized Newspapers as the following have only partially migrated with more coming soon: Fisherman Publishing Society Newspaper This is a new addition to the SFU Digitized  Early Alberta Newspapers Collections of newspapers. Check it out at: cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/col newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/the-fisherman lection/p22007coll2  Local and Alberta Histories Also, explore the Fisherman Publishing cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/col Society Photographs at: lection/p22007coll8/search digital.lib.sfu.ca/fisherman-publishing- society-photographs Explore the other featured digital collections on their new platform available now at: View other SFU Digitized Collections at: library.ucalgary.ca/digital?group_id=14797 digital.lib.sfu.ca

Toronto Public Library Digital Archive Toronto Public Library’s Digital Archive has a new look. Check out their recently digitized items at: www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/digital-archive

12 University of Manitoba Browse, search and discover other available Digital Collections resources such as: The Winnipeg Tribune  Whitehall: Historical and Architectural Notes The digitized editions of the Winnipeg Tribune www.british-history.ac.uk/no- are now available and searchable from 1890 to series/whitehall 1980. Explore it at:  A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/tribun 18 e/index.html www.british- history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol18  A History of the County of Gloucester: New and Updated Volume 12 www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol12 Digital Initiatives  A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10 Archives Nationales www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol10 Fonds Marine – Dossiers individuels des officiers de vaisseau et de plume British Library Still very much a work in progress, the Endangered Archives Programme personnel files of the officers of the Marine are The British Library, together with funding being digitized and made available online. partners, launched an Endangered Archives These documents contain the name of anyone programme in 2004 to help preserve rare who was in the French navy before the vulnerable archival materials from around the Revolution. Currently, only the hundreds of world. These materials were endangered due files available cover those surnames from A to to neglect, physical deterioration or destruction. D. Search or browse at: www.siv.archives- View and explore these additions to the nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/recherchecon programme: sultation/consultation/ir/consultationIR.acti on?formCaller=GENERALISTE&irId=FRAN_ Creating a digital archive of ecclesiastical IR_053796&gotoArchivesNums=false&defa documents from Santiago de Cuba, Bayamo, ultResultPerPage=&frontIr=&optionFullText Trinidad and Baracoa, Cuba (EAP843) =&fullText=&udId=root&consIr=&details=fal eap.bl.uk/project/EAP843 se&page=&auSeinIR=false Digitisation, preservation and dissemination of Check out their other new online resources at: parochial books and matrimonial records prior www.archives- to the establishment of the Civil Registry in nationales.culture.gouv.fr/en/web/guest/nou Peru (EAP783) velles-ressources-en-ligne eap.bl.uk/project/EAP783

British History Online Documentary heritage at risk: digitisation and University of London: the Historical Record enhancement of the archive of the Monastery (1836-1926) of Dominican nuns of Santa Rosa, Santiago, This new addition to British History Online Chile (EAP821) contains a brief history of the University of eap.bl.uk/project/EAP821 London from 1836 to 1926, as well as, a list of honours and higher degrees and their Endangered ethnohistories: preserving and recipients and an index of all graduates in digitising the DF Ellenberger ethnohistorical alphabetical order. archive (EAP845) www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london- eap.bl.uk/project/EAP845 university-graduates

13 Preserving Peruvian newspapers for a regional  RC Marriage Records (Complete) for approach: key 19th-20th century press in Rath/Killinaboy Parish, 1818-1844 and Arequipa (EAP726) 1859-1880 eap.bl.uk/project/EAP726 www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/whatsnew.htm

Learn more about the programme and explore Congregational Library & Archives other projects at: History Matters eap.bl.uk New England’s Hidden Histories Learn about and explore the latest additions to British Pathé the New England’s Hidden Histories project. Reuters Historical Collection  Boylston, Mass. First Church More than 120,000 items from 1910 to 1979 www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ from the Reuters Historical Collection are series1/BoylstonMAFirst now viewable for free on the British Pathé  Brockton, Mass. First Parish website. Congregational Church www.britishpathe.com/ www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ series1/BrocktonMAFirst0037 Civil War Petitions  Hopkinton, Mass. First Congregational Conflict, Welfare and Memory During and Church After the English Civil Wars, 1642-1710 www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ The 17th century petitions of civil war soldiers series1/HopkintonMAFirst5193 and widows have been digitized and are now  Hull, Mass. Congregational Church available online. Still very much a work in www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ progress the project is due to run until June series1/HullMA 2021. At this time only a small portion of the  Marlborough, Mass. First Church 4,000+ petitions can be viewed. www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk series1/MarlboroughMAFirst1358  Merrimac, Mass. Pilgrim Congregational Clare County Library Church What’s New www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ What’s new and updated at the Clare County series1/MerrimacMAPilgrim0123 Library include the following:  Newbury, Mass. Third Church  1700 Chichester House List of Claims www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/  Baptism Records (Complete) for series1/NewburyMAThird Clonrush Parish, 1846-1880  Pembroke, Mass. First Church  Baptism Records (Complete) for www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ Kilfenora Parish, 1836-1880 series1/PembrokeMAFirst5109  Baptism Records (Complete) for Quin  Sandwich, Mass. First Church and Clooney Parish, 1816-1880 www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/  Baptism Records (Complete) for Tulla series1/SandwichMA Parish, 1819-1881  Wendell, Mass. Congregational Church  RC Baptism Records (Complete) for www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ Doora/Kilraghtis Parish, 1821-1881 series1/WendellMACongregational48 90  RC Marriage Records (Complete) for Clonrush Parish, 1846-1880  West Brookfield, Mass. First Congregational Church  RC Marriage Records (Complete) for Kilfenora Parish, 1842-1880 www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ series1/WestBrookfieldMAFirst1179

14  West Stockbridge, Mass. First Church Guild of One-Name Studies www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/ History of the Ruby Families series1/WestStockbridgeMAFirst To honour the guild’s upcoming 40th anniversary in September 2019, a team of View their other church records collections at: guild members have created a website devoted www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/series1 entirely to the study of one surname – Ruby. ruby.one-name.net/index.php Defence Forces Ireland Military Service Pensions Collection Hathi Trust Explore the latest releases to the Military Digital Library Service Pensions Collection at: Explore the recently updated collections of the www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online- Hathi Trust Digital Library such as: collections/military-service-pensions-  African American Imprints at Emory collection-1916-1923 University babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=7 Learn more about the collection and how it is 59085114 organized at:  London Topographical Society www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upl babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=1 oad/MSPC/Guide_to_the_Military_Service_ 300412309 %281916-  Maryland Genealogy 1923%29_Pensions_Collection.pdf babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=8 85249531 Family Tree Magazine  Virginia Genealogy babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=2 125622409 Best Genealogy Websites 2018 Family Tree Magazine has posted their See more at: annual installment of 101 Best Websites babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?colltype=updat 2018. There are many great sites to help you ed discover your family history. Some may be familiar to you, and some of those may have Internet Archives new content you might want to explore, while Genealogy others will be new. Check out the latest additions to this growing collection of genealogy resources. To see the View their annual list at: latest additions to the collection use the SORT www.familytreemagazine.com/best- BY function, under DATE PUBLISHED click on genealogy-websites DATE ARCHIVED. archive.org/details/genealogy?sort=-date Foundation for Jewish Heritage Historic Synagogues of Europe Irish Jewish Genealogical Society Dedicated to the preservation of Jewish Information on thousands of individuals who heritage, the Foundation of Jewish Heritage, lived in Ireland between 1700 and the present together with the Center for Jewish Art at the day has been compiled by Stuart Rosenblatt Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have made P.C. FGSI. Records include: accessible to a wide audience an inventory of  Naturalisations Record 1880-1912 all the historic synagogues of Europe.  The Aliens Register 1914-1918 historicsynagogueseurope.org/synagogue- www.irishjewishroots.com/index.php home

15 Isle of Wight Council wartime, predominantly from 1652 to 1815. Cemetery Records The Prize Papers of the High Court of The Isle of Wight Council have uploaded Admiralty are a collection of juridical 100,000 cemetery records from the 12 documents relating to the capture together with cemeteries on the island. Digital download for other seized documents and objects such as: a record is £3.00. View this new records colonial administration papers, trading and website at: maritime papers, books and notebooks, www.iw-bereavementservices.co.uk drawings and around 160,000 undelivered letters. Learn more at: Library of Congress prizepapers.de Story Maps Through narrative, multimedia and interactive National Library of New Zealand maps, the remarkable stories of the Library’s Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa collections are being told. Papers Past Latest additions now available in the Papers Some examples of the Story Maps include the Past website include three of Auckland’s following: earliest newspapers which chronicle the country’s early history and colonial life. The Behind Barbed Wire three digitized newspapers are: www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid  Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand =69183af8d45d4f46a9dc4eba99440891 Colonist (Dec 1842-Feb 1845)  Auckland Times (Sep 1842-Jan 1846) Surveying the South  New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid (Jul 1841-Apr 1842) =101b5706178a4b4a90da6d76893137cc paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

A Treasure Trove of Trials Latest addition to the Magazines and www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid Journals section of Papers Past is the: =1f1be130b12a492c8e6f6d5af7456159  Turnbull Library Record (1940-2017) paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals Discover the vast array of other digitized items through the Library’s Digital Collections. National Library of Scotland www.loc.gov/collections/ Map Images Recent Additions Maclean’s Magazine Explore these recent map images from the 3,400 issues of the Canadian publication from National Library of Scotland at: 1905 to 2008 have been made available for maps.nls.uk/additions.html free online, but NOTE across the top the words, “FOR A LIMITED TIME ENJOY FREE ACCESS FROM 1905 TO 2008”. View at: National Monuments Service archive.macleans.ca/issues National Monuments Service: Wreck Viewer Nearly 4000 shipwrecks have been charted around the coast of Ireland. Data to be found National Archives (UK) include: location, the name of the ship, the date Prize Papers of the wreck, the type of ship or boat and the In partnership with the University of source of the data. Oldenburg, the National Archives embarks dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/ on a 20-year project to catalogue, describe and index.html?id=89e50518e5f4437abfa6284ff3 digitize for viewing online confiscated papers 9fd640 seized from captured enemy ships during

16 National University of Ireland, Galway University College Cork Moore Institute The Great Irish Famine Online Ireland Illustrated 1680-1860 With the use of interactive maps, discover and New database containing over 500 images of learn about the effects the famine had on Irish Ireland has been launched. Ireland Illustrated society between 1841 and 1851. This is a provides a picture of 18th and 19th century collaborative project between the University Ireland with its engravings, water colours, College Cork’s Geography Department and woodcuts and other illustrations with related the Department of Culture, Heritage and the text from printed works and manuscripts. Gaeltacht. ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillustrated dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/ind ex.html?appid=8de2b863f4454cbf93387dac Nauticapedia Project b5cb8412 This nautical information portal celebrating the maritime heritage of British Columbia, western University of Cambridge and northern Canada and Canada’s naval Populations Past – Atlas of Victorian and forces has been updated to now include over Edwardian Population 55,000 vessel histories and 58,000 mariner Interactive online atlas of the Victorian and biographies. Edwardian population in England and Wales, www.nauticapedia.ca/index.php where users can create and view maps using different socio-economic indicators. Northeastern Illinois University www.populationspast.org/imr/1861/#7/53.03 Japanese American Redress Collection 5/-2.895 This digitized collection includes a scanned copy of The Commission on Wartime University of Lincoln Relocation and Internment of Civilians International Bomber Command Centre (CWRIC) official transcripts. Digital Archive collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/landingpa A new digital archive has been launched to ge/collection/nei_japan preserve the history and experiences of the Bomber Command during the Second World Tipperary County Council Library War. The archive features interviews, service Service citations, training manuals, log books, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, letters and Tipperary Studies more. Tithe Record Book for Ardmayle- ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/ Ballysheehan The Tithe record book for Ardmayle- Ballysheehan, dating from 1790 to 1801 is Wikimedia Commons now available online at: Explore the following from Wikimedia tipperarystudies.ie/wp- Commons, the free media repository: content/uploads/2018/03/Ardmayle%20Bally sheehan%20Tithe%20Book%201790-  National Library of Wales Portrait Archive 1801%20reduced.pdf commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Na tional_Library_of_Wales_Portrait_Archive Other newly digitized resources for those  Bibliothèque et archives nationals du seeking ancestors of the county are: Québec  Milton Damer Papers 1787-1798 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:  Valentine Maher Turtulla rental 1839-1843 BAnQ-Projet_Massicotte  Tipperary GAA Senior Hurling County Final Match Programmes tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project/

17 National Archives of Australia First World War Centenary Boer War to Vietnam www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/ conflicts.aspx

Canada

First World War Centenary The Canadian Letters & Images Project 2018 marks the centenary of the Armistice that www.canadianletters.ca/ brought an end to the Great War. To commemorate the First World War Centenary Canadian War Museum - Canada and the First (2014-2018) and honour all those who served, World War died and were affected by the war; exhibitions, www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/ lectures, educational events and resources as guerre/home-e.aspx well as digitization projects were planned by participating countries and international Library and Archives Canada organizations. To learn more about their Personnel Records of the First World War service and sacrifice revisit the following; www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military- where you can browse, search, and discover heritage/first-world-war/personnel- personnel records, war diaries, historical records/Pages/personnel-records.aspx documents, films and much more. New Brunswick Great War Project General archives.gnb.ca/Search/NBGWP/?culture=e n-CA 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War Newfoundland & Labrador in the First World www.1914-1918-online.net/ War www.heritage.nf.ca/first-world-war/ CWGC – Commonwealth War Graves Commission Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and www.cwgc.org/ Labrador - The Rooms Died in Service ICRC Historical Archives www.therooms.ca/died-in-service-database 1914-1918 Prisoners of the First World War grandeguerre.icrc.org/ University of Saskatchewan Remember Us The War Graves Photographic Project greatwar.usask.ca/ www.twgpp.org/ War Diaries of the First World War (Archived) www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ Australia archivianet/020152_e.html

Australian Government France Department of Veterans’ Affairs

The Anzac Portal Mémoire des Hommes anzacportal.dva.gov.au/ www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.

gouv.fr/en/article.php?larub=78&titre= Australian War Memorial first-world-war www.awm.gov.au/

Europe National Archives Archives Portal Europe First World War 100 www.archivesportaleurope.net/ www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ first-world-war/ Europeana 1914-1918 www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en Wales at War www.walesatwar.org/en/site/home European Film Gateway - EFG1914 project www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/1914 United States

Ireland National Archives World War I Centennial Ireland WW1 www.archives.gov/topics/wwi?utm_expid=3 www.irelandww1.org/ 7357212-1.nJpoV- BOTtKnLrV29hZReQ.1&utm_referrer=https Italy %3A//www.archives.gov/#event- /timeline/item/archduke-assassination

1418 documenti e immagini della grande Guerra United States Military Academy West Point www.14-18.it/home Campaign Atlas to the Great War www.westpoint.edu/history/SitePages/ New Zealand WWI.aspx

Auckland War Memorial Museum Veterans History Project He Toa Taumata Rau / Online Cenotaph www.loc.gov/vets/ muse.aucklandmuseum.com/ databases/Cenotaph/locations.aspx? Genealogy Programs at the New Zealand WW100 ww100.govt.nz/ Vancouver Public Library

United Kingdom

British Red Cross - First World War Volunteers BCGS Downtown Vancouver vad.redcross.org.uk/ Genealogy Group

Cymru 1914 Second Tuesday of each month cymru1914.org/en/home 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Program Room Imperial War Museum - First World War Level 3, Central Branch Centenary 350 West Georgia Street www.1914.org/ Genealogy Discussion – bring your ideas, Lives of the First World War questions and latest discoveries. It’s a friendly, livesofthefirstworldwar.org/ helpful group – all interested in genealogy and family history are welcome.

19 In the Trenches: Digitized First World War Records – A Library and Archives Canada Introductory Workshop Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Other Vancouver Public 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Library Programs of Interest Computer Training Lab Level 3, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street

Are you interested in researching your Morph: Change the Story ancestors’ First World War military service? Monday, October 15, 2018 This introductory workshop teaches participants how to access Canadian 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Expeditionary Force service files, identify an Room 919 and 920 individual’s military unit and consult various Level 9, Central Branch digitized resources such as war diaries to learn 350 West Georgia Street about the context of an individual’s service. Basic ability to use a keyboard and mouse is Vancouver Public Library’s inaugural morph required. exhibition, , invites Vancouverites to come together and think about what change In partnership with Library and Archives means for themselves and the place where Canada. they live. This launch event brings together leaders from diverse fields who are changing Registration required. the stories we tell about ourselves. vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/search/q=militar y/event/5baad42fbfcd2034006fc5ce Rudy Reimer/Yumks is an Indigenous Archaeologist from Skwxwu7mesh Uxwumixw For more information contact: Programming (Squamish Nation) and host of APTN’s Wild and Learning Services at [email protected] at 604 Archaeology. 331-3603 Vanessa Richards is an artist with a Genealogy: Trace Your Ancestors with foundation in music, performance, creative Ancestry Library Edition writing, and socially-engaged practices. She is Tuesday, December 11, 2018 the founder and song leader of the 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Woodward’s Community Singers, a non- Collingwood Branch auditioned, free, drop-in choir. 2985 Kingsway Henry Yu is a historian involved in the Learn about the exciting online resources collaborative effort to reimagine the history of available through the library’s ancestry Vancouver and of British Columbia. database. Eager to start exploring? See our Genealogy subject guide online Participants will have an opportunity to view guides.vpl.ca/genealogy/genealogyhome the morph exhibition before and after the event. Registration required. Register at: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/search/q=ances For more information contact: Programming try/event/5bbd1b813a1e98ef6cbdeb74 and Learning Services at [email protected] at 604 331-3603 For more information contact: Collingwood Branch Library at 604 665-3953

Julia Henshaw: A Canadian Writer on In this event, experts in planning, heritage, the Western Front social and cultural dimensions reflect on the historic Bartholomew Plan, and share Thursday, November 1, 2018 perspectives on Vancouver’s potential to 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. become smarter, more compassionate and Alice Mackay Room accessible. Lower Level, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street Participants will have an opportunity to view the morph exhibition before and after the Julia Henshaw was a novelist, journalist, event. botanist, explorer and First World War ambulance driver who resided in Vancouver for For more information contact: Programming almost 50 years. Learn about Henshaw from and Learning Services at [email protected] at 604 writer and artist Michael Kluckner, who 331-3603 discusses her remarkable achievements and his graphic novel, Julia, which documents her life. Commemorate the First World War To see a complete list of upcoming programs centenary by exploring this important Croix de and events at the Vancouver Public Library Guerre-winning historical figure. visit vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/search/ index For more information contact: Programming and Learning Services at [email protected] at 604 Be sure to check back as new entries are 331-3603 added all the time!

Morph: Reflections on Vancouver’s Programs Elsewhere in the Design Past, Present and Future Lower Mainland Monday, November 19, 2018 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Monthly British Columbia Room 919 and 920 Genealogical Society Meetings Level 9, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street Second Wednesday of each month year round Vancouver Public Library’s inaugural 7:30 p.m. exhibition, morph, invites Vancouverites to Danish Lutheran Church come together and think about what change Downstairs Hall means for themselves and the place where 6010 Kincaid Street, Burnaby, B.C. they live. Visitors are always welcome. In 1928, a consulting firm led by Harland Bartholomew presented Vancouver’s very first For more information: www.bcgs.ca comprehensive town plan to the Town Planning Commission. The influence of this plan is still seen today. In 2019, Vancouver will embark on developing a new city-wide plan.

21 Finding Your Roots 2018 Saturday, October 13, 2018 Presented in partnership by the Burnaby 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Village Museum, the Burnaby Public Library, and the Burnaby Historical Society. Surrey Family History Center

6270 – 126 Street, Surrey, B.C. Call the library at 604-436-5400 to reserve your Free place

The Finding Your Roots Seminar is a free family history workshop with well over 35 Exploring Your Family History classes with excellent instructors to choose Thursday, October 18, 2018 from. Come and enjoy learning how to 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. research your family history. Fraser Valley Regional Library Hope Library Preregistration is required. 1005A 6 Avenue, Hope, B.C.

For more information: October is Family History Month! Join guest findingyourroots.ca speaker Jamie Brown, a library technician at Surrey Public Library, to explore the many Photo & Document Preservation 101 resources available in the Cloverdale Family (16+) History Collection. She will also discuss family Saturday, October 13, 2018 history, genealogy and how to use the 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Ancestry.com database.

Coquitlam Heritage For more information call 604-869-2313 1116 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam, B.C. By Donation

Make sure your family’s memories will last! In this hands-on, how-to workshop, City of Coquitlam Archivist Emily Lonie will share some tips and tricks for preserving your family Chinese Canadian Stories photos and documents, Registration required due to limited space. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. For more information: Burnaby Public Library www.coquitlamheritage.ca/ Bob Prittie Metrotown Library 6100 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. Burquitlam Backyard Gardens & Free but registration is required

Farms Find out more about the contributions of Wednesday, October 17, 2018 Chinese Canadian people to the development 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. of Burnaby. Burnaby Public Library Cameron Library Presented in partnership by the Burnaby 9523 Cameron Street, Burnaby, B.C. Village Museum, the Burnaby Public Library, Free but registration is required and the Burnaby Historical Society.

Explore this neighbourhood’s agricultural past, Call the library at 604-436-5400 to reserve your and learn how to grow food in your own place backyard.

22 The Extraordinary Life of Julia Learn to prepare to ask well-researched Henshaw questions of your elderly relatives. Consider Speaker: Michael Kluckner, author how to be ready when you have the opportunity to travel. Explore why you should and artist give yourself time to reflect on your personal Thursday, October 25, 2018 experiences. 7:30 p.m. Vancouver Historical Society For more information call 604-598-7327 or Location: Museum of Vancouver email [email protected] 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, B.C. Family History Fridays A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, Fridays, November 2, December 7, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful 2018, January 4, February 1, 2019 personality who lived in the Vancouver area 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. from 1890 until her death in 1937. Michael Surrey Public Library Kluckner’s graphic biography traces her Cloverdale Library extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C. from the Rocky Mountains to England, and No registration, Drop-in. from the mining towns of BC’s Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her Join us to share and explore different topics in strongly expressed views of women’s roles and family history. voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada’s relationship to Great Britain and the For more information call 604-598-7327 or USA are an illuminating contrast with the email [email protected] beliefs of her contemporaries and with the values of society today. Family History Collection Orientation Saturdays, November 3, December 1, Michael Kluckner is an author-artist whose publications include Vanishing Vancouver 2018 (1990), Vancouver Remembered (2006), and 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. the graphic novel Toshiko (2015). His most Surrey Public Library recent work is the graphic biography Julia, Cloverdale Library published in 2018. 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C. No cost. Contact the branch to register. For more information: www.vancouver-historical- Learn to use one of the largest collections of society.ca/events.html family history materials in Canada. Our orientation will help you find online information, Why Write Your Family History? books, journals, and microfilm records Presenter: Brenda L. Smith For more information call 604-598-7327 or Saturday, October 27, 2018 email [email protected] 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Surrey Public Library Cloverdale Library 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C. Free. Register by contacting the branch.

It is never too soon to start writing your family story, but it can be too late.

23 People of the Inlet: A Look At Tsleil- Family Interviews 101: How to Waututh History in Burrard Inlet Interview & Document Stories from Speaker: Carleen Thomas, Special Parents & Grandparents (16+) Projects Manager Saturday, November 3, 2018 Thursday, January 24, 2019 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Coquitlam Heritage Vancouver Historical Society 1116 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam, B.C. Location: Museum of Vancouver By Donation 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, B.C.

How do you ensure your family’s stories are Located on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, the preserved for future generations? City of Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN) are Coast Salish Coquitlam Archivist, Emily Lonie will share people who speak a dialect of the Halkomeiem some best practices for conducting oral history language and are closely related to but interviews with family members and will politically separate from the nearby nations of provide some tips for turning those interviews the Squamish and Musqueum. Carleen into treasured keepsakes. Registration Thomas, a member of the TWN, will tell the required. history of her people through the experiences of one family as revealed in photos, maps, and For more information: personal family stories. The importance of www.coquitlamheritage.ca/ stewardship, culture, and relationships between communities in the history of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation will be noted.

Carleen Thomas is a Special Projects Manager, Treaty Lands & Resources Department of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. A member of the TWN, she is a proud wife, mother, and grandmother of 5 amazing Ancestry Library Edition Workshop grandchildren. Instructors: Jamie Brown and Carmen Merrells For more information: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 www.vancouver-historical- 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. society.ca/events.html Surrey Public Library Cloverdale Library The Untold Story of Sam Greer’s 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C. Battle for Kitsilano Free. Registration limited to 12. Call or visit Speaker: Laura Ishiguro, Assistant branch to register. Professor of History

Ancestry Library Edition (ALE) is free to use at Thursday, March 28, 2019 Cloverdale Library. Learn to use it to help 7:30 p.m. improve your research skills and become a Vancouver Historical Society better family historian. Location: Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, B.C. Bring your own device for a hands on session! In September 1891, Samuel Greer either For more information call 604-598-7327 or accidentally or intentionally shot Deputy Sheriff email [email protected] Tom Armstrong through the door of his family’s

24 small house near what’s now called Kitsilano VGS’s popular 2-hour genealogy workshops Beach. This was the dramatic climax of a much have informative speakers on a wide variety of longer war between Greer and the Canadian genealogy-related topics. Pacific Railway Company. Both claiming the same land on English Bay, Greer and the CPR Upcoming workshops include: had for years engaged a range of tactics to  17 October 2018 – Wonder Wall undermine each other’s position, including Wednesday Evening court cases, provincial investigations,  27 October 2018 – Genealogy on the newspaper editorials, and industrial sabotage. Cheap: No Credit Card Required The broad contours of their conflict – with its  3 November 2018 – United States culmination in the shooting of Armstrong, who Genealogy had come to evict the Greers on behalf of the  10 November 2018 – Identifying Military company – has become legendary in the Uniforms in Old Photographs history of Vancouver. However, much more  17 November 2018 – Scotland Beyond remains to be understood about it. This talk will ScotlandsPeople explain the “Battle for Kitsilano” by connecting  24 November 2018 – Autosomal DNA it to the larger untold story of Greer’s life in Crash Course British Columbia. In so doing it will reveal the  1 December 2018 – CSI: Genealogy significant underlying history of land, law,  5 January 2019 – FamilySearch.org corruption, and colonialism in the making of Search Strategies Vancouver.  12 January 2019 – Breaking Brick Walls

 19 January 2019 – Digitize Your Family Laura Ishiguro is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Her book, Nothing to Write  26 January 2019 – Finding Your People Home About: British Family Correspondence in the Census and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British  2 February 2019 – Records of the Poor Columbia, is forthcoming with UBC Press. (UK)  9 February 2019 – Ancestry.com Search For more information:  23 February 2019 – Undiscovered www.vancouver-historical- Collections in Online Libraries society.ca/events.html For more information: www.victoriags.org

QB Family History Society – Programs Elsewhere in British Information Evening Columbia Tuesday, October 16, 2018 6:00 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Victoria Genealogical Society Vancouver Island Regional Library Genealogical Events Qualicum Beach Public Library 101 - 660 Primrose Street, Qualicum Beach, October 2018 – December 2018 B.C. 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Victoria Genealogical Society October is ‘Family History Month’. Library The Genealogy Learning & Research Centre patrons will have the opportunity to talk to 209 – 4475 Viewmont Avenue, Victoria, B.C. members of the society about the steps Fees: needed to research their genealogy. $15 for members $25 for non-members Further information is available: www.qbfhs.ca

25 Cliff Caprani Sunday, November 18, 2018 Seattle Genealogical Society 2:00 p.m. Fall Seminar October 20, 2018 Friends of the B.C. Archives Seattle, Washington Newcombe Conference Hall, Royal BC

Museum For more information: 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, B.C. www.seattlegenealogicalsociety.org $5 for non-members

Genealogical Forum of Oregon Award-winning film maker Cliff Caprani will be Fall Seminar describing the archival research behind his November 3 – 4, 2018 documentary on Sidney Rich, a BC resident Portland, Oregon who volunteered to serve in the Canadian

Expeditionary Force in WWI and who lost his For more information: life in a battle known ironically as Sanctuary gfo.org/learn/seminars.html Wood. Cliff will describe the steps he took in researching the life and times of Sidney Rich Salt Lake Christmas Tour and how his subject exemplified the war effort December 2 – 8, 2018 in BC. Cliff will show and narrate his Salt Lake City, Utah documentary film at our meeting which will be held a week after Remembrance Day and a For more information: century after the Armistice of 1918. More sites.google.com/site/ information: saltlakechristmastour sidneyrich.ca/podcasts

Roots Tech 2019 For more information: February 27 – March 2, 2019 friendsofbcarchives.wordpress.com/upcom Salt Lake City, Utah ing-events

For more information: www.rootstech.org

Also Noted… Guild of One-Name Studies Guild 40th Anniversary Conference and AGM

2019 International Society for British Genealogy and March 29 – 31, 2019 Family History Leicester, England 2018 British Institute

October 15 – 19, 2018 For more information: Salt Lake City, Utah one-name.org/

For more information: Federation of Family History Societies isbgfh.org Family Tree Live

April 26 – 27, 2019 Genetic Genealogy Ireland London, England October 19 – 21, 2018

Dublin, Ireland For more information:

ffhs.org.uk/ For more information: ggi2013.blogspot.com/2018/

26 National Genealogical Society 2019 Family History Conference May 8 – 11, 2019 St. Charles, Missouri www.vpl.ca www.guides.vpl.ca/genealogy For more information: conference.ngsgenealogy.org Vancouver Public Library

350 West Georgia Street The Genealogy Show Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1 June 7 – 8, 2019 604-331-3603 Birmingham, England

For more information: www.thegenealogyshow.uk/

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