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The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine T. Bettinger, 2016 929.1 B56f

Genealogy, 8th ed. Genealogical by Matthew L. Helm and April Leigh Helm, 2017 929.10285 H47g7 Resources The Power of Names: Uncovering the An occasional eNewsletter provided by Mystery of What We are Called by Mavis Himes, 2016 the Vancouver Public Library 929.4 H65p

Canada Issue #44 – Fall 2017 Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices From the Holocaust edited by Myrna Goldenberg, 2017 940.5318 B415g

Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic edited by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas, 2017 641.0971 C36c

The Endless Battle: The Fall of Hong Kong and Canadian POWs in Imperial Japan by Andy Flanagan, 2017

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The Faraway Nearby: Photographs of Recent Additions to Canada From the New York Times Photo Archive the Collection edited by Denise Birkhofer and Gerald McMaster, 2017 779.9971 F21b Items listed below without a Ref. designation may be borrowed. Call 604-331-3603 to request Honouring Our People: Breaking the nd a book, or place your request through the online Silence, 2 ed. catalogue at www.vpl.bibliocommons.com. edited by Randy Enomoto, 2016 305.8956 H77e Ref. items must be used in the library.

1 How Different it Was: Canadians at the Time British Columbia of Confederation by Michael J. Goodspeed, 2017 Blood, Sweat, and Fear 971.05 G65h by Eve Lazarus, 2017 363.25 V22L The Imperial Irish: Canada’s Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914-18 Canucks in Khaki: Langley, the Lower by Mark McGowan, 2017 Mainland, and the Great War of 1914 to 1918 940.308 M14i by Warren F. Sommer, 2017 940.3711 S69c Jayewardene, Udunuwara Urulawatte Perera, Corea, Samarasinghe, Goonetilleke, Changing Tides: Vanishing Voices of Nikkei Perera Wijegoonewardena, and Other Inter- Fishermen and Their Families Related Family Genealogy: [Including Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Bandaranaike, De Alwis, Thudugala, & 2017 Jayetilleke Hulugalle Lineages] 971.1004 C456h by Anne-Marie Samarasinghe, 2017 929.371 S18j Chilcotin Chronicles: Stories of Adventure and Intrigue From British Columbia’s Jianada de Zhongguo ji Yin = Canada’s Central Interior Chinese Gene: A Sense of Belonging, by Sage Birchwater, 2017 Ownership and Contribution 971.175 B61c by Guo Ding, Kenny Zhang, and Sophia Zhang, 2017 Index of Names in the Central Okanagan CHI 971.004 D58j by Susan D. Campbell and Gweneth Neil, 2017 R929.5 O41ca Miss Confederation: The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History by Anne McDonald, 2017 by Neil J. Sterritt, 2016 971.049 C69m 970.2 S83m

The North-West Mounted Police: 1873-1885 Maria Mahoi of the Islands by Jack F. Dunn, 2017 by Jean Barman, 2017 971.2 D92n 971.128 M21b1

Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History The Recorded History of the Liard Basin, of the French-Speaking Canadiens and 1790-1910: Where British Columbia Joins Metis From the Great Lakes and the the Yukon and N.W.T. Mississippi Across to the Pacific by Anthony Kenyon, 2016 by Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, and 971.187 K37r Sebastien Malette, 2016 971.004 F79s Prairie Provinces

This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War 1880 Village Census of the Mennonite West by Linda J. Quiney, 2017 Reserve, Manitoba, Canada 940.475 Q72t edited by John Dyck and William Harms, 1998 R929.37127 E34d

2 Abandoned Manitoba: From Residential Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Schools to Bank Vaults to Grain Elevators Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Gordon Goldsborough, 2016 by Tera W. Hunter, 2017 971.27 G62a 305.896 H94b

The Banker and the Blackfoot: A Memoir of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through My Grandfather in Chinook Country African American Culinary History in the by J. Edward Chamberlin, 2016 Old South 971.234 C44b by Michael Twitty, 2017 641.0973 T97c Reinlander (Old Colony) Gemeinde Buch: 1880-1903, Manitoba, Canada, 2nd ed. Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and edited by John Dyck and William Harms, 2006 Slaves in the Age of Jackson R929.37127 R37d by Christina Snyder, 2017 976.9 S67g Sommerfeld Gemeinde Buch: Registers of the Church at West Lynne, 1881-1935 The Hello Girls: America’s First Women edited by Henry Unger, Martha Martens and Soldiers Adolf Ens, 2004 by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, 2017 R929.37127 S69u 940.373 C65h

Ontario The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family The Toronto Book of the Dead by Nina Sankovitch, 2017 by Adam Bunch, 2017 929.2 L91s 306.9 B94t Picturing America: The Golden Age of Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History Pictorial Maps by Bryan D. Palmer and Gaetan Heroux, 2016 by Stephen J. Hornsby, 2017 362.509713 P17t 912.73 H81p

Atlantic Canada The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival by Denise Low, 2017 Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record 970.2 B894L Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Michael Dupuis, 2017 British Isles 971.622 D94b

New Brunswick Was His Country: The Life Britain’s Tudor Maps: County by County of William Francis Ganong by John Speed, 2016 by Ronald Rees, 2016 912.41 S74b 580.92 G15r Dadland United States by Keggie Carew, 2017 940.5485 C27c

American Epic The Family Tree Irish Genealogy Guide: PBS Distribution, 2017 How to Trace Your Ancestors in Ireland DVD 784.4973 A512M by Claire Santry, 2017 929.3415 S23f

3 Keeping My Sisters’ Secrets Asia by Beezy Marsh, 2017 942.1 M365k The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India London: A Life in Maps by Jon E. Wilson, 2016 by Peter Whitfield, 2017 954.03 W74c 911.421 W59L1 Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Uncle Who Vanished in British India Society Hostesses Between the Wars by Kief Hillsbery, 2017 by Sian Evans, 2017 954.031 H18h 941.082 E92q

The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the New at the Vancouver Public Seventeenth Century: 1660-1700 by Ian Mortimer, 2017 Library 942.066 M88t

Victorian Slum House PBS, 2017 Library and Archives Canada Service DVD 362.50942 V64h at the Vancouver Public Library

The Vancouver Public Library is very excited to announce the launch of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) service at the Central Library starting November 8. Monday to Friday during Europe LAC service hours, library patrons can speak to the national institution’s expert staff, receive An English Governess in the Great War: assistance for research, request documents The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp from Ottawa, and access key genealogy edited by Sophie De Schaepdrijver and Tammy databases such as Find My Past. M. Proctor, 2017 940.3493 T51e This Vancouver This Vancouver, an online home for My European Family: The First 54,000 Years preserving and sharing stories of our city, its by Karin Bojs, 2017 events and its people, is the result of the 929.2 B68m library’s collaboration with community members on community-based digital projects. Travels and Identities: Elizabeth and Adam Check out the following new additions to this Shortt in Europe, 1911 collection. edited with commentary by Peter E. Paul Dembski, 2017 Hellenic Stories 914 S55t Listen to the stories of over three generations of Greek Vancouverites and how this The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral community helped make Vancouver what it is History of Women in World War II today. by Svetlana Aleksievich, 2017 thisvancouver.vpl.ca/#hellenic-stories 940.5347 A36u

4 Hollywood North Also, listen to the latest additions of Library and Listen to the oral stories and view the collected Archives Canada’s Podcasts which showcase photographs of Vancouverites and their their services and collections. encounters with the film industry over the www.bac- years. lac.gc.ca/eng/news/podcasts/Pages/podcas thisvancouver.vpl.ca/#hollywood-north ts.aspx

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Recent and Updated Additions to the LAC Website This popular database for genealogical research is available at all branches of Blog and news postings of recent additions and Vancouver Public Library. updated information on the Library and Archives Canada website include: Updated and New Canadian Databases  Canada, Fenian Raids Bounty  Explore the Census of Canada 1921! Applications, 1866-1871 www.bac-  Manitoba, Canada, Baptisms, lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2017/1921- Marriages, and Burials, 1834-1959 Census-Canada.aspx  Manitoba, Canada, Census Indexes,  New additions to the Virtual 1832-1856 & 1870 Gramophone – English songs North America, Family Histories, 1500- www.thediscoverblog.com/2017/08/04  2000 /new-additions-to-the-virtual- gramophone-english-songs/  Nova Scotia, Canada, Births, 1840-1915  Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Library and Archives Canada has added new Assessment and Poll Tax Records, images on Flickr to their website. Some of 1770-1795, 1827, 1838 these new images include:  Nova Scotia, Canada, Deaths, 1864-  Steam Power 1877, 1890-1965  Streetcars  Nova Scotia, Canada, Marriages, 1763-  Podcast Images: 50 Years of Expo 67 1940  Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother  Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths  Immigration Posters Overseas, 1869-1947  Podcast Images: Healing Journey...  Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1935  Yukon  Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records,  Saskatchewan 1637-1935  Quebec  Nunavut  Saskatchewan, Canada, Catholic Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1867-  Nova Scotia 1932 Check out these images and more at: www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/albums  Saskatchewan, Canada, Cemetery Transcripts, 1850-1994

5 Updated and New United Kingdom and  Scotland, Extracted Parish Records, Ireland Databases 1571-1997  Anglesey, Wales, Electoral Registers,  Shropshire, England, Extracted Church 1832-1977 of England Parish Records, 1538-1812  Bedfordshire, England, Land Tax  Staffordshire, England, Extracted Records, 1797-1832 Church of England Parish Records,  Bedfordshire, England, Petty Sessions, 1538-1839 1854-1915  UK, Royal Air Force Airmen Records,  Bedfordshire, England, Valuation 1918-1940 Records, 1838-1929  Web: Ireland, Trade Directory, 1931  Derbyshire, England, Church of England  Web: Jersey, Alien Registration Cards, Baptisms, 1813-1916 1920-1953  Derbyshire, England, Church of England  Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538- Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538- 1812 1812  Derbyshire, England, Church of England  Wiltshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1991 Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916  Derbyshire, England, Church of England  Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 Deaths and Burials, 1813-1916  England and Wales, Long-Term  Wiltshire, England, Church of England Workhouse Inmates, 1861 Marriages and Banns, 1754-1916  England, Extracted Parish and Court  Yorkshire, England, Extracted Church of Records, 1399-1795 England Parish Records, 1538-1837  Fife, Scotland, Cupar Library Newspaper Index Cards, 1833-1987  Ireland, Poor Law Union Removals From England, 1859-1860  Ireland, School Masters and Mistresses, 1826

 Ireland, Sustainability Loan Fund, 1821- 1874  London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538- News from 1812  London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 United Kingdom and Ireland Collections  London, England, Church of England Recently Added or Updated Confirmation Records, 1838-1921  England, Dorset, Parish Registers,  London, England, Church of England 1538-1936 Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003  England, Essex, Bishop’s Transcripts,  London, England, Church of England 1779-1892 Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930  England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-  London, England, Poor Law School 1997 District Registers, 1852-1918  England, Norfolk, Parish Registers  London, England, School Admissions (County Record Office), 1510-1997 and Discharges, 1912-1918  England, Northumberland, Cumberland,  Medway, Kent, England, Methodist Durham, Miscellaneous Records, 969- Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1798- 2007 1932

6  England, Northumberland, Non- remaining microfilms to be digitized by the end conformist Records, 1708-1982 of 2020.The closing day for microfilm access  England, Northumberland, Parish was September 7, 2017. For further details, Registers, 1538-1950 please see:  England, Staffordshire, Church Records, media.familysearch.org/update- 1538-1944 familysearch-digital-records-access-  Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913 replacing-microfilm/

FamilySearch has added millions of records For help on how to find digital images on online from around the world. Check out the FamilySearch see Finding Digital Images of new and updated collections that have been Records on FamilySearch.org at: added to Australia & New Zealand, Canada, broadcast.lds.org/fhd/FH_Finding_Digital_R Continental Europe, South America and the ecords_WEB.pdf United States. Click on Last Updated to get the latest additions to the collections.

Australia & New Zealand FindMyPast * www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list /?page=1®ion=AUSTRALIA_NEW_ZEAL Check out these new and updated additions to AND the FindMyPast Collections at: www.findmypast.com Canada www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list  Berkshire Baptisms Index /?page=1®ion=CANADA  Berkshire Burial Index  Berkshire Marriages Index Continental Europe  Britain, Marriage Licences Browse www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list  Buckinghamshire Banns Index /?page=1®ion=EUROPE  Buckinghamshire Baptism Index  Buckinghamshire Burial Index South America  Buckinghamshire Marriage Index www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list /?page=1®ion=SOUTH_AMERICA  Dublin City Ordnance Survey Map 1847  Dublin Electoral Rolls United States of America  England, Clandestine Marriage Browse www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list  England Roman Catholic Parish /?page=1®ion=UNITED_STATES Baptisms

 England Roman Catholic Parish Burials  England Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records  England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages FamilySearch to Discontinue Microfilm Gloucestershire, Bristol Baptism Index Loans   Gloucestershire, Bristol Burial Index FamilySearch’s significant progress in their  Gloucestershire, Bristol Marriage Index microfilm digitization efforts and the decreased  Herefordshire Baptisms use of microfilm technology has led to this  Herefordshire Burials decision. The bulk of its microfilm collection has been digitally reproduced with the  Herefordshire Marriages  Herefordshire Wills, 1517-1700

7  Ireland Calendars of Wills &

Administrations 1858-1920 Getting Started...  Ireland, Maps and Surveys 1558-1610 Prairie Provinces  Lancashire Wills & Probate 1457-1858  Leicestershire Baptisms  Leicestershire Burials

 Leicestershire Marriages  London, Bunhill Fields Non-Conformist Are you looking for your Canadian ancestors, Burials 1713-1826 Browse specifically those who settled in one of the  Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions Prairie Provinces? Genealogists can begin 1485-2014 their search with Ancestry Library Edition  Middlesex Protestation Returns 1641-42 (accessible at the Vancouver Public Library)  National Burial Index for England & and/or with the Canada data collections at Wales FamilySearch.

 New York Genealogical and Also, check out the following as potentially Biographical Record useful tools and resources, where everything  New York Researcher from research guides to searchable databases  North West Kent Burials to digital collections are available for family  Oxfordshire Marriage Bonds 1634-1849 historians researching their prairie roots.  Scotland Registers & Records Please NOTE that some tools and resources  Scotland Roman Catholic Parish may require either a subscription or Registers Browse membership for full access.  Sussex Monumental Inscriptions  Thames & Medway Baptisms  Thames & Medway Burials Alberta  Thames & Medway Marriages Alberta Family Histories Society  Warwickshire Banns www.afhs.ab.ca  Warwickshire Baptisms  Warwickshire Bastardy Indexes 1844- Alberta Genealogical Society 1914 www.abgenealogy.ca  Warwickshire Burials  Warwickshire Marriages The Alberta Heritage Digitization  Wiltshire Baptisms Index 1530-1917 Project Our future Our past *NOTE: Full access to all is by subscription www.ourfutureourpast.ca/home.htm

Glenbow Museum www.glenbow.org/index.cfm

Library and Archives Canada Alberta www.bac- lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/genealogy/places/Pa ges/alberta.aspx

8 Provincial Archives of Alberta Saskatchewan Historic Newspapers www.provincialarchives.alberta.ca Online Check out their Civil Registration Indexes at: sabnewspapers.usask.ca www.provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how- to/find-birth-marriage-death- Saskatoon Public Library records/Default.aspx Local History Databases

spldatabase.saskatoonlibrary.ca/_Local%20 University of Alberta History.htm Digital Collections www.library.ualberta.ca/digital- initiatives/digital-collections Manitoba University of Alberta Peel’s Prairie Provinces Archives of Manitoba www.peel.library.ualberta.ca/index.html www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives

University of Calgary Library Government of Manitoba Digital Collections Vital Statistics Agency contentdm.ucalgary.ca Genealogy Searches for Unrestricted Records vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php Saskatchewan Hudson’s Bay Company Archives eHealth Saskatchewan www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca Genealogy Index Searches genealogy.ehealthsask.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx Library and Archives Canada Manitoba Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan www.bac- www.esask.uregina.ca/ lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/genealogy/places/Pa ges/manitoba.aspx Library & Archives Canada Saskatchewan Manitoba Genealogical Society www.bac- www.mbgenealogy.com lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/genealogy/places/Pa ges/saskatchewan.aspx Manitobia manitobia.ca/ Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan saskarchives.com University of Manitoba Libraries Digital Collections Regina Public Library digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/ Prairie History www.reginalibrary.ca/services/ Winnipeg Public Library prairie-history Winnipeg’s Digital Public History pastforward.winnipeg.ca/ Saskatchewan Genealogical Society www.saskgenealogy.com

9 Ontario Archives Canadian Archives, Museums The Records – Vital Statistics Additional year of vital statistics for Ontario and Genealogical Societies have been released. 1935 marriage and 1945 death registrations are now available on ancestry.ca. Learn more at: Digitization projects, new resources and www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/ additions to collections are an ongoing the_records.aspx process. Check out some new initiatives and recent updates to the following collections. Provincial Archives of New

Brunswick Metis Nation of Ontario County Council Marriage Records, 1826- Ontario Metis Root Ancestors Project 1887 Learn about and view the following Ontario 1,324 marriage records for Sunbury County Metis Root Ancestor packages. have been added to the County Council  Rainy Lake/Rainy River, Lake of the Marriage Records, 1826-1887, which also Woods/Lac Seul and Treaty3 Halfbreed include records for Gloucester, Kent and Adhesion Harvesting Areas Restigouche Counties. View at:  Lakehead, Nipigon, Michipicoten archives.gnb.ca/Search/CountyCouncilMarr Harvesting Areas iageRecords/Default.aspx?culture=en-CA  James Bay and Abitibi/ Temiscamingue Harvesting Areas Provincial Archives of Newfoundland  Sault Ste Marie and Michipictoen Harvesting Areas and Labrador  Mattawa/ Nipissing Harvesting Area The Rooms  Georgian Bay Harvesting Area Died in Service Search this commemorative database with www.metisnation.org/registry/citizenship/o more than 1300 illustrated biographies of those ntario-m%C3%A9tis-root-ancestors who died in service during the First World War. www.therooms.ca/died-in-service-database Nova Scotia Archives New Ross From Family to Community Discover the story of the community of New Ross and its links to the history of the Ross family. www.novascotia.ca/archives/ross

Nova Scotia Community Albums – Archives Canadian Universities and Celebrating Canada’s 150th Libraries The Community Albums project, created by archival institutions across Nova Scotia in celebration of Canada’s 150th, tells the history Kitchener Public Library and stories of Nova Scotia communities Directories through a collection of exhibits or albums. Kitchener-Waterloo City and Waterloo County Discover these albums at: directories from 1864 to 1940 have been www.novascotia.ca/archives/ digitized. More volumes will be added as they communityalbums are proofed and optimized. www.kpl.org/localhistory/directories

10 Lakehead University Library Toronto Public Library Archives & Digital Collections at Lakehead Toronto City Directories University Library Toronto City Directories for the years 1910, Check out their new live Digital Collections site, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926 containing over 1000 images of local history. have been digitized and newly added to the digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca Toronto Public Library’s Internet Archive collection. McGill University Library archive.org/details/toronto_public_library?s Montreal Maps Project ort=-publicdate In celebration of the 375th anniversary of Montreal, McGill University Library’s Collection Digital Archive Services has digitized and made available rare Check out the newest additions to their Digital maps of Montreal which represent physical Archive such as the British Colonist, together geographies, boundary changes, landmarks, with other ephemeras and photographs at: and routes through the centuries. View these www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Er rare maps through their Internet Archive p=20&N=38537&Ns=p_dig_date_record collection at: &Nso=1&view=grid archive.org/search.php?query=mcgill%20m ontreal%20maps University of Guelph Library Rural Diary Archive Take a glimpse into the daily lives of rural people, discover and meet over 150 rural Ontario diarists from 1800 to 1960 through their handwritten diaries. You can also get involved to make these documents more accessible by helping with the transcription. Learn more about the project and how you can Memorial University of Newfoundland help at: Maritime History Archive www.ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca Are you researching ancestors from Newfoundland? Explore recent additions to the Winnipeg Public Library Maritime History Archive website and Past Forward checkout their other holdings and collections. Henderson’s Directories www.mun.ca/mha/ Check out recent additions to the Winnipeg Henderson’s Directories which are available for Okanagan College viewing from 1880 to 1965. The Penal Press – A History of Prison from pastforward.winnipeg.ca/cdm/ Within landingpage/collection/hendersons Focusing mainly on Canadian publications, the Penal Press provides insight into prisoner’s Explore other features of Winnipeg’s Digital views on the justice system, its policies and Public History such as their postcard practices. Written and produced by the collections, local music history and oral prisoners, articles feature everything from histories. jokes, club news, religious news, gossip pastforward.winnipeg.ca/cdm columns, calendars of events to help with finances, addiction and family issues. Learn about and view the various issues at: www.penalpress.com

11 A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland New and Updated This resource contains detailed topographical information of places, parishes and counties in Digital Initiatives Scotland. www.british-history.ac.uk/ topographical-dict/scotland Auckland War Memorial Museum New Zealand Online Cenotaph A Topographical Dictionary of Wales The Auckland War Memorial Museum has Dictionary provides detailed information of posted a searchable database of records for places, parishes and counties in Wales. New Zealand service personnel, where families www.british-history.ac.uk/ and researchers are able to contribute topographical-dict/wales additional information to the records of those who served for Aotearoa New Zealand. Cork City and County Archives www.aucklandmuseum.com/war- Burial Records of St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, memorial/online-cenotaph Cork Full transcription of the 1867-1890 burial British History Online register for St. Finbarr’s cemetery in Cork City The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 has been uploaded to the Cork City and Discover abstracts, calendars and transcripts County Archives’ Online Collections. Browse of surviving materials related to 738 cases this latest addition, then explore their other heard in the Court of Chivalry between 1634 online records such as: and 1640. The cases cover a wide range of  Aldwell’s Directory of Cork City 1845 issues, from brawls in the street, quarrels at  Liam de Roiste TD, Diaries 1914-1915 race meetings, pew disputes, dueling, grants of  List of Freemen of Cork City, 1710-1841 arms and heralds’ visitations.  Valuation List, Holy Trinity Parish, Cork www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/ City, 1831 court-of-chivalry www.corkarchives.ie/collections/onlinedigit alarchive/ The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers digital panopticon Check out this new online resource funded and Tracing London Convicts in Britain & supported by The Cromwell Association, Australia, 1780-1925 containing the names of over 4000 officers who The Tracing London Convicts in Britain & served in the armies of Parliament during the Australia website traces the lives of 90,000 first English civil war (1642-1646). people sentenced to transportation, www.british-history.ac.uk/no- imprisonment or death from the Old Bailey in series/cromwell-army-officers London between 1780 and 1875. Learn about crime in London, the criminal justice system Browse or search their online catalogue for and the types of punishment imposed on Old other available resources such as: Bailey convicts. For more information see: www.digitalpanopticon.org A Topographical Dictionary of England This publication, edited by Samuel Lewis, Also, explore the fully searchable Proceedings provides descriptions of all or almost all of the of the Old Bailey: London’s Central towns and villages in each county of England. Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913 at: www.british-history.ac.uk/ www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Proceedings topographical-dict/england .jsp

12 Dublin City Council Jewish Food Society Libraries and Archive: 1908 to 1915 A non-profit organization whose aim is to Electoral Rolls preserve Jewish recipes from around the The Dublin City Electoral Lists for 1908-1915 world. with over 400,000 records have been digitized www.jewishfoodsociety.org/blog and are fully-searchable. This ongoing project with the goal of digitizing all of the 1898-1916 Library of Congress electoral lists is part of the city’s contribution to Sanborn Maps the Decade of Commemorations. Fire insurance maps were created to be used www.databases.dublincity.ie/ by insurance underwriters to determine the burgesses/about.php cost of fire insurance. Over 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps from various states are Electricity Supply Board (ESB) now online with more being added monthly. Memories from ESB Archives Learn more about the collection and view the Explore the recently added interactive map and map sheets at: discover when electricity reached more than www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn- 1300 towns and parishes across the Republic maps/about-this-collection of Ireland. esbarchives.ie View other online fire insurance maps such as:

Fingal Local Studies & Archives Library and Archives Canada Services British Columbia Fire Insurance Maps Buried in Fingal Through a link from the VPL online city Over 60,000 burial records from the north part directories page view online British Columbia of County Dublin have been posted online. fire insurance maps at Library and Archive Maps, plans, history and photographs are also Canada. available. Records cover the period between bccd.vpl.ca/ 1905 and 2005. www.buried.fingal.ie University of Victoria Victoria Fire Insurance Plans See fire insurance plans of Victoria. HM Passport Office contentdm.library.uvic.ca/cdm/landingpage/ General Register Office collection/collection11 Online Historical Birth and Death Indexes Historical birth and death records can now be City of Toronto Archives searched online. This new service does not yet Fire Insurance Plans cover marriage records. Users must register to Toronto fire insurance plans can be researched use the free search. Learn more at: here. www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?v Login.asp gnextoid=98da757ae6b31410VgnVCM10000 071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=9f53226b4 Internet Archive 8c21410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD Genealogy Check out the latest additions to this growing British Library collection of genealogy resources. To see the Fire Insurance Maps and Plans latest addition to the collection use the SORT Explore fire insurance maps and plans of the BY function, under DATE PUBLISHED click on British Isles. DATE ARCHIVED. www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/f www.archive.org/details/genealogy?sort=- ireinsurancemaps.html date

13 Limerick City and County Council Representative Church Body Library Limerick Archives Anglican Record Project Digital Archives This is an ongoing project to make the Discover the rich archival holdings of the registers of baptism, marriage and burial from county of Limerick with the launch of their new the Church of Ireland parishes available online. webpage. A selection of their most popular www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb- collections is highlighted with more to come. library/anglican-record-project Some of the online collections include: Royal Albert Hall  Rate Valuation Books, 1893-1971 Learn about the Hall’s incredible heritage  Registration of Motor Vehicles, 1904- through its extensive venue performance 1982 database and online archive catalogue. You  Limerick City Council Minute Books can search 30,000+ performances from the (1899-1973) opening concert in 1871, right up to present  Property Management, 1774-1956 day.  Limerick County Infirmary, 1835-1958 www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/our-  Limerick County Militia, 1797-1846 history/ www.limerick.ie/discover/explore/historical- Royal Bank of Canada resources/limerick-archives/archive- In Remembrance collections/digital-archive-categories This section of the Royal Bank of Canada website is dedicated to the Royal Bank National Library of Wales employees who served in the First and Second Welsh Journals World Wars and to those who helped on the Free remote access to Welsh and English home front. language journals which were published www.rbc.com/history/celebrating-our- between 1735 and 2007. history/in-remembrance/index.html journals.library.wales/home Royal Commission on the Ancient Norwich Freemen Records Online and Historical Monuments of Wales www.nfro.norwichfreemen.org.uk List of Historic Place Names of Wales Freely accessible and fully searchable, this Resource containing hundreds of thousands of online database provides the names of men place names collected from historical maps and eventually women who were admitted to and other sources which provide insight into the freedom of Norwich over the last 700 the archaeology, land use and history of years. This is an important resource in tracing Wales. the men and women who lived and worked in historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk Norwich, providing an insight into the social, economic, and political history of Norwich. Learn more about the Freemen and search the ScotlandsPeople online database at: Presbyterian Church Records infro.norwichfreemen.org.uk More than 36,000 new Presbyterian church records covering the period 1744 to 1855 have been added to the website. You can search the records for free but any details or images are on a pay-per-view system. www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/news- article-release-presbyterian-church-records

14 Tipperary County Council Library Service Genealogy Programs at the Tipperary Studies Vancouver Public Library Two new digitization projects to explore:

Workhouse Registers BCGS Downtown Vancouver tipperarystudies.ie/ Genealogy Group workhouse-registers Second Tuesday of each month 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. School Registers Program Room tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation- Level 3, Central Branch project/schools-registers 350 West Georgia Street

Check out the other digitization projects from Genealogy Discussion – bring your ideas, the Tipperary Studies at: questions and latest discoveries. It’s a friendly, tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project helpful group – all interested in genealogy and family history are welcome. University of Cambridge Cambridge Digital Library Genealogy Workshop: Researching Browse the following new additions to the Your Canadian Military Ancestors Cambridge Digital Library: Thursday, November 9, 2017 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Voices of civilian internment: WWII Dunbar Branch Library Singapore 4515 Dunbar Street Digitization of the archives of two Second World War civilian internment camps is Mark Remembrance Day by researching your presented here. family’s historical Canadian military cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/ connections. This workshop will introduce a civilianinternment variety of resources and tools for exploring military roots, from New France to the 20th Forman and Napier Casebooks century. Browse the casebooks of astrologer-physicians Simon Forman and Richard Napier at: Registration required. Register at: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/casebooks vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/599c7ce0a4 5bca3f0004bea0 And explore The Casebooks Project, a digital edition of Simon Forman’s and Richard For more information contact: Dunbar Branch Napier’s medical records 1596-1634. Library at 604 665-3968 This project is a collaboration between the

University of Cambridge and the Bodleian Library. Genealogy for All Ages! www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ Friday, December 1, 2017 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Dunbar Branch Library 4515 Dunbar Street

Explore your genealogy with your younger generation! Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins are invited to bring young

15 relatives (ages 3-18) for an afternoon of games and crafts focused on sharing family history – Other Vancouver Public and making it fun. Library Programs of Interest For more information contact: Dunbar Branch Library at 604 665-3968

Genealogy: Trace Your Ancestors Saving Stories with FamilySearch Thursday, October 19, 2017 Saturday, December 2, 2017 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Champlain Heights Branch Library Britannia Branch Library 7110 Kerr Street 1661 Napier Street Are you interested in capturing the stories of Learn about this exciting online resource for your friends, family and community but aren’t family research available on the Internet at this sure where to begin? In this presentation and genealogy workshop. discussion, discover the basic concepts of creating digital stories. Learn about tools and Registration required. Register at: resources to get you started, and how the vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/59cd45a854 Inspiration Lab can help bring your digital story 415634000106c2 project to life.

For more information contact: Britannia Branch For more information contact: Champlain Library at: 604 665-2222 Heights Branch Library at 604 665-3955

Genealogy: Trace Your Ancestors Story City: An Evening of Vancouver with FamilySearch Stories Tuesday, December 5, 2017 Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. West Point Grey Branch Library Alice Mackay Room 4480 West 10th Avenue Lower Level, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street Learn about this exciting online resource for family research available on the Internet at this Connect with your city and neighbours through genealogy workshop. the power of stories. As part of the Canada 150+ celebrations, VPL is launching the Story Registration required. Register at: City project: a collection of hundreds of oral vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/59cd460838 stories from members of Vancouver’s 28432e00ce6c21 communities, reflecting on their journeys to the city and what Vancouver means to them. Meet For more information contact: West Point Grey some of our storytellers, share in their Branch Library at: 604 665-3982 experiences and memories, and hear their unique perspectives on the history of Vancouver and the unceded lands on which the city was built at this special launch event.

This initiative is made possible by the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th, a collaboration between VPL, the Government of

16 Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast World War had been fired, peace had not been to coast to coast. achieved. Paris 1919, based on Margaret Macmillan’s work of popular history, revisits the Cette initiative est rendue possible grace au peace talks that followed, a pivotal moment for Fonds communautaire pour le 150e all mankind. anniversaire du Canada, qui est une collaboration entre VPL, les foundations For more information contact: Champlain communautaires canadiennes, le Heights Branch Library at 604 665-3955 gouvernement du Canada et des leaders extraordinaires de l’Atlantique au Pacifique a Top Docs: The Road Forward l’Arctique. Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. For more information contact: Programming Mount Pleasant Branch Library and Learning Services at [email protected] at 604 1 Kingsway 331-3603

A musical documentary by Marie Clements, Surveying the Great Divide: The connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil British Columbia/Alberta Boundary rights history – the beginnings of Indian Survey 1913-1924 Nationalism in the 1930s – with the powerful Thursday, November 2, 2017 momentum of First Nations activism today. A 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. rousing tribute to the fighters for First Nations Kitsilano Branch Library rights, a soul-resounding historical experience, 2425 MacDonald Street and a visceral call to action.

Profilic, award-winning author Jay Sherwood Voucher system in place and available at 5:30 present photos of BC’s past from his new book, p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis. “Surveying the Great Divide: The British Columbia/Alberta Boundary Survey 1913- For more information contact: Mount Pleasant 1924”. Through 1917, during Canada’s 50th Branch Library at: 604 665-3962 anniversary, and World War I, major surveying projects continued. A.O. Wheeler, scaled peaks along the Great Divide for phototopographic surveying, and R.W. Cautley The Canadian Jewish Experience: mapped the boundary through economically Celebrating the Rich History of important mountain passes. Jewish Life in Canada Thursday, November 16, 2017 In partnership with Caitlin Press. 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Alice Mackay Room For more information contact: Kitsilano Branch Lower Level, Central Branch Library at 604 665-3976 350 West Georgia Street

Remembrance: Paris 1919 Jewish Canadians have played important roles Thursday, November 9, 2017 in all facets of life in Canada, dating back to the 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. mid-1700s, their accomplishments reflecting Champlain Heights Branch Library the challenges and successes experienced by 7110 Kerr Street Canada during the past 150 years. The exhibit highlights Canadian’s continued efforts to build In remembrance, VPL presents a screening of a country that respects cultural and religious Paris 1919. Although the last shots of the First diversity, national unity, fairness and progress.

17 In partnership with the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC, the Centre for Israel and Programs Elsewhere in the Jewish Affairs, and the Jewish Federation of Lower Mainland Greater Vancouver.

For more information contact: Programming Monthly British Columbia Genealogical and Learning Services at [email protected] at 604 Society Meetings 331-3603 Second Wednesday of each month year round Paul and Eileen Lin Commemorative 7:30 p.m. Lecture: What’s in a Name? Danish Lutheran Church Tuesday, November 21, 2017 Downstairs Hall 6010 Kincaid Street, Burnaby, B.C. 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Alice MacKay Room Visitors are always welcome. Lower Level, Central Branch For more information: www.bcgs.ca 350 West Georgia Street Finding Your Roots – Tri-Stake Seminar Should we honour Canada’s first prime Saturday, October 14, 2017 minister, John A. McDonald? Or Christopher 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Columbus, after whom the province is named? Surrey Family History Center The stories we tell about the past have real 6270 – 126 Street, Surrey, B.C. consequences for people in the present. Who Free we publicly commemorate matters.

The Finding Your Roots Seminar is a free In the inaugural Paul and Eileen Lin family history workshop with well over 35 Commemorative Lecture, Timothy J. Stanley, classes with excellent instructors to choose historian and author of Contesting White from. Come and enjoy learning how to Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-racism, research your family history. and the Making of Chinese Canadians, illustrates ways of developing anti-racist and Preregistration is required. decolonized histories of inclusion for British For more information: Columbia and Canada. www.findingyourroots.ca

In partnership with the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C. Family History Collection Orientation Saturdays, October 14, November 4, For more information contact: Programming December 2, 2017 and Learning Services at [email protected] at 604 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 331-3603 Surrey Public Library Cloverdale Library To see a complete list of upcoming programs 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C. and events at the Vancouver Public Library visit vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/search/ Learn to use one of the largest collections of index family history materials in Canada. Our orientation will help you find online information, Be sure to check back as new entries are books, journals, and microfilm records. added all the time! Registration required. For more information call 604-598-7327 or email [email protected]

18 Getting to Know Burnaby Walking Tour of the Masjid Al Salaam Burnaby Neighbourhood Histories Series Mosque & Islamic Education Centre Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Burnaby Neighbourhood Histories 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Series Burnaby Public Library Cameron Library Saturday, October 21, 2017 9523 Cameron Street, Burnaby, B.C. 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Masjid Al Salaam Mosque & Islamic Education Celebrate Burnaby’s 125th birthday by learning Centre about the history of the community. Find out 5060 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C. more about some of the interesting people who have shaped the place where we live. This talk Explore the architecture and culture of the is presented by Lisa Codd. Lisa is the curator Masjid Al Salaam Mosque & Islamic Education at the Burnaby Village Museum. She received Centre with building architect Sharif Senbel. an MA in History from Simon Fraser University, Meet at entrance of the Mosque. and enjoys speaking about the history of Burnaby. This tour is part of the Burnaby Neighbourhood Histories Series, presented in partnership by Getting to Know Burnaby is one of eight events the Burnaby Village Museum, the Burnaby in the Burnaby Neighbourhood Histories Public Library, and the Burnaby Historical Series. Present in partnership by the Burnaby Society. Village Museum, the Burnaby Public Library, and the Burnaby Historical Society. Events are free, but space is limited. To avoid disappointment please register online, or by Talks are free, but space is limited. To avoid calling 604-436-5400 disappointment please register online, or by calling 604-436-5400 For more information: www.bpl.bc.ca/events/walking-tour-of-the- For more information: masjid-al-salaam-mosque-islamic- www.bpl.bc.ca/events/getting-to-know- education-centre-0 burnaby Indigenous Plant Tour of Deer Lake Family History on the Cheap Burnaby Neighbourhood Histories Saturday, October 21, 2017 Series 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Saturday, October 28, 2017 Surrey Public Library 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Cloverdale Library Burnaby Village Museum 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C. 6501 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, B.C.

Family History research is one of the most Coast Salish educator and ethnobotanist popular hobbies around. But how do you make Cease Wyss shares her knowledge of how it more economical? native plants have long been used in Aboriginal health and healing practices while touring the Join presenter Jamie Brown and learn how to Deer Lake area. reduce expenses while increasing the number of resources you consult! This tour is one of eight events in the Burnaby Neighbourhood Histories Series. Presented in Registration required. partnership by the Burnaby Village Museum, For more information call 604-598-7327 or email [email protected]

19 the Burnaby Public Library, and the Burnaby Family History Show & Tell Historical Society. Saturday, November 18, 2017 Events are free, but space is limited. To avoid 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. disappointment please register online, or by Surrey Public Library calling 604-436-5400 Cloverdale Library

5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C For more information: www.bpl.bc.ca/events/indigenous-plant- Our 9th Annual Event! tour-of-deer-lake

We continue the tradition by inviting people Shocking Genealogy Secrets who document their family history to bring in Saturday, October 28, 2017 their creations. There have been: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  family quilts Surrey Public Library  scrapbooks Cloverdale Library  storyboards 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C.  diaries  a very special chamber pot Found on the Internet.  digital collages  and much more There are many websites and online resources available that weren’t designed for family This year we continue our “home movie” historians. Even so, they can often help family theme, and we hope you will share digitized historians in their research. home movies or slides with us. But don’t feel limited by this theme. All the usual wonderful Presenters M. Diane Rogers and Paul Show & Tell materials are very welcome too. MacDonell will give brief but informative demonstrations of various resources. So please join us and bring whatever you’ve made to honour your ancestors. Or you might Registration required. Register by contacting just have a unique family history artefact to the branch. share with everyone. You are welcome to share by describing items, or you may simply For more information call 604-598-7327 or showcase them. email [email protected] Tables will be provided. A laptop with Internet Fun Family History Fridays and a projector will be available if needed. Fridays, November 3, December 1, 2017 Visitors without stories are welcome to watch 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. and listen. Surrey Public Library Cloverdale Library Note: participants will be strictly limited to a 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, B.C. maximum of ten minutes talk time! No registration, Drop-in Registration required. Register by contacting Join us to share and explore different topics in the branch. family history. For more information call 604-598-7327 or For more information call 604-598-7328 or email [email protected] email [email protected]

20 Genealogy Fair protests, riots, and strikes and Vancouver in Thursday, November 23, 2017 the Seventies: photos from a decade that 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. changed the city for a slide show of images from Vancouver’s rich history of protest West Vancouver Memorial Library activism. Main Hall

1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, B.C. For more information:

www.vancouver-historical- Curious about your roots or trying to expand society.ca/events.html your family tree? With access to our great online resources, these informative programs will bring out your inner family historian! Where Mountains Meet the Sea Speaker: Daniel Francis, historian In this Genealogy Fair, experts will guide you Thursday, January 25, 2018 through your research and teach you about the 7:30 p.m. wide range of online and print resources Vancouver Historical Society available. This is your chance to dig into topics Location: Museum of Vancouver such as English, Irish, Eastern European and 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, B.C. Jewish genealogy techniques, as well as B.C. archival research and DNA genealogy. Originally part of the territories of the Tsleil- Waututh and Squamish Nations, the Presented in partnership with the British community of North Vancouver predates Columbia Genealogical Society, Klahanie Vancouver as the earliest European settlement Research Ltd. and the Jewish Genealogical on Burrard Inlet. For several years Moodyville Society of British Columbia. was the “capital” of Burrard Inlet. Boosters even thought that the North Shore might For more information, visit or call the become the terminus for the transcontinental Information Desk at 604.925.7403 railway. Instead North Vancouver had a more www.westvanlibrary.ca/events/ measured history, characterized by industrial genealogy-fair-0 development along its waterfront, residential development up its mountain slopes and City On Edge: a rebellious century of recreational development in its backcountry. Vancouver protests, riots, and strikes Speaker: Kate Bird, librarian In this well-illustrated talk based on his book Where Mountains Meet the Sea Thursday, November 23, 2017 th 7:30 p.m. commemorating the 125 anniversary of North Vancouver District, historian Daniel Francis Vancouver Historical Society describes how the community evolved from a Location: Museum of Vancouver frontier sawmill village into a modern urban 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, B.C. centre marked by its location midway between

the mountain wilderness and the third largest For more than a century photojournalists at city in Canada. The Vancouver Sun and The Province have been on the scene to capture those times For more information: when the city stood up, took to the streets, and www.vancouver-historical- made some noise. From the 1900 salmon society.ca/events.html fishermen’s strike to the 2017 women’s march,

Vancouver has a long history of making its viewpoints heard, and in some cases, felt. Join retired PNG librarian Kate Bird, author of City On Edge: a rebellious century of Vancouver

21 Programs Elsewhere in British Columbia

Victoria Genealogical Society Genealogical Events October 2017 – February 2018

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Victoria Genealogical Society Blood, Sweat, and Fear: the Story of VGS Resource Centre Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First 947 Alston Street, Victoria, B.C. Forensic Investigator Fees: Speaker: Eve Lararus, author $15 for members Thursday, March 22, 2018 $25 for non-members

7:30 p.m. VGS’s popular 2-hour genealogy workshops Vancouver Historical Society have informative speakers on a wide variety of Location: Museum of Vancouver genealogy-related topics. 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, B.C. Upcoming workshops include: Heralded internationally as the Sherlock  14 October 2017 – Beginning Scottish Holmes of Canada, John F.C.B. Vance was Research Vancouver’s first forensic investigator. During  28 October 2017 – 10 Steps to Success: his 40-year career (1907-1949) Vance was An Introduction to Genealogy constantly called upon to use his skills in serology, toxicology, firearms, trace evidence  18 November 2017 – Making Your Own and autopsy to solve hit-and-run, robberies, Family History Book and some of the most sensational murder  2 December 2017 – English Poor Law & cases of the twentieth century. His skills and Workhouses analytic abilities were so effective that there  9 December 2017 – Writing Biographies were seven attempts on his life, and for a time, of Your Ancestors he and his family were under constant police  6 January 2018 – This Isn’t Your guard. Vance was on the forefront of forensics, Mother’s Genealogy – Put Twitter to often inventing his own equipment when none Work For You was available.  13 January 2018 – Across the Pond  3 February 2018 – Ancestry.Com In 1932 he was given the honorary title of Search Strategies – Of Interest to New Inspector and put in charge of the newly Members formed Police Bureau of Science. For more information: Eve is the author of several books on www.victoriags.org/ Vancouver history, her latest being the subject of this talk.

For more information: www.vancouver-historical- society.ca/events.html

22 The Movies of Joseph J. Jackson, c. Unlocking the Past 2018 1933-1947 Speakers: Thomas MacEntee, Lesley Speaker: Dennis J. Duffy Anderson and Tara Shymanski Sunday, October 15, 2017 April 20 – 21, 2018 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Qualicum Beach Family History Society Friends of the B.C. Archives Beach Club Resort Newcombe Conference Hall, Royal BC 181 Beachside Drive, Parksville, B.C. Museum 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, B.C. Speakers Topics: $5 for non-members  10 Ways to Jumpstart Your Genealogy  Successful Collateral and Cluster Retired archivist and BC film historian Dennis Searching J. Duffy will present a talk based on home  Searching Effectively on Ancestry movie footage by Joseph J. Jackson, a  Ancestry DNA – How it Can Help Your remarkable amateur photographer who worked Research in the Stikine-Cassiar district and Cocquihalla  The 15 Habits of Highly Frugal area in the 1930s and 1940s. Dennis will be Genealogists talking about “Mr. Jackson’s interesting life and  You Use WHAT for Genealogy? – career” and providing “colour commentary” on Wonderful Uses for Unusual Tools a selection of “black-and-white (silent) films.”  Canadian Census Records Dennis has given a talk to the Friends in the  Exploring Canadian Records to Find past on BC travelogues and films. Your Ancestors

For more information: For more information: www.friendsofbcarchives.wordpress.com/ www.qbfhs.ca/workshops/unlocking-the- upcoming-events past-2018-conference

Also Noted…

Genealogy Workshop – Intro to British Wills Seattle Genealogical Society Saturday, November 4, 2017 Fall Seminar 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. October 21, 2017 Vancouver Island Regional Library Seattle, Washington Cowichan Library 2687 James Street, Duncan, B.C. For more information: www.seattlegenealogicalsociety.org Join us for a demonstration of how probate records can be invaluable to genealogical LDS Family History Fair research. Wills and other papers can document November 4, 2017 relationships between family members, Bellevue, Washington particularly parent to child. For more information: For more information call 250-746-7661 or www.wafamilyhistory.com/2017/index.html email [email protected]

23 Salt Lake Christmas Tour 2017 For more information, please contact: December 3 – 9, 2017 Salt Lake City, Utah Vancouver Public Library Foundation 350 West Georgia Street For more information: Vancouver, B.C., V6B 6B1 sites.google.com/site/saltlakechristmastour Tel: 604-331-3786 Email: [email protected] Roots Tech 2018 February 28 – March 3, 2018 Genealogical Resources eNewsletter is a free Salt Lake City, Utah bi-annual publication of the Vancouver Public Library distributed by email. If you are not For more information: already on the mailing list and would like to www.rootstech.org receive future issues, send an email to [email protected] with the subject Genealogical Forum of Oregon subscribe and SUBSCRIBE genealogy in the body of the message. Spring Seminar April 14 – 15, 2018 Portland, Oregon www.vpl.ca www.guides.vpl.ca/genealogy For more information: gfoorg.presencehost.net/learn/seminars.ht ml Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1 604-331-3603

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