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Alberta Family Histories Society
Canada
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2013
Voices from the Past Winnie
A three-day family reunion in Calgary in 2024. Our Aunt Winnie and my mother, born in Calgary and Winnipeg, then moved to Calgary. She was an organizer, starting the Orion social club in Calgary, and the aunt who kept the extended family together with family gatherings. She and Albert lived in Calgary to raise three children. Enjoy the PowerPoint presentation of our Aunt Winnie and hear her voice from the past.
#genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory #Calgary
#genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory #Calgary
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Voices from the Past Gert
มุมมอง 202 หลายเดือนก่อน
A three-day family reunion in Calgary in 2024. Our Aunt Gert was the original family historian for our Webber extended family. In 1988, she wrote and published a complete history, including photos and family charts. Enjoy the PowerPoint presentation of our Aunt Edna and hear her voice from the past. #genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory #calgary
Voices from the Past Bill
มุมมอง 202 หลายเดือนก่อน
A three-day family reunion in Calgary in 2024. Our Uncle Bill, who raised chickens to feed the family and was "a born tease". He and Aunt Ila lived in Calgary to raise five children. Enjoy the PowerPoint presentation of our Uncle Billy and hear his voice from the past. #genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory #Calgary
Voices from the Past Beware the B's
มุมมอง 142 หลายเดือนก่อน
A three-day family reunion in Calgary in 2024. Have families had a name change in their past? Yes, some have and our family did also. But it was because of World War One. Listen to the surname change in the middle of my mother's family siblings. We went from "German" to "English" in the stroke of a pen. #genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory
Voices from the Past Edna
มุมมอง 282 หลายเดือนก่อน
A three-day family reunion in Calgary in 2024. Our Aunt Edna, who found her love and soul mate aboard a Caribbean cruise ship and returned to Canada to raise six children Enjoy the PowerPoint presentation of our Aunt Edna and hear her voice from the past. #genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory
Voices from the Past Intro
มุมมอง 242 หลายเดือนก่อน
A three-day family reunion in Calgary in 2024. The Webber family clan, originating in Alsace and Northern Ireland, held a reunion and events to remember our parents and celebrate the family lines. Enjoy the PowerPoint presentation of our aunts and uncles and hear their voices from the past. #genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory
Voices from the Past Weir
มุมมอง 342 หลายเดือนก่อน
A three-day family reunion in Calgary in 2024. Our Uncle Weir, who served in the Royal Canadian Navy in World War Two, then returned home to raise a family of three children. Enjoy the PowerPoint presentation of our Uncle Weir and hear his voice from the past. #genealogy #familyreunions #webber #familyhistory
Russian family book design
มุมมอง 359 หลายเดือนก่อน
#familybook #russia #genealogy #familyhistory #afhs #flipbuilder Anna Babaeva is an enthusiastic genealogy researcher on her Russian family line. She has composted s 358 page family history book using Flip Builder to produce an interactive book with dynamic page flipping. Anna included colourful graphics, photographs and backgrounds to result in a polished product for her family.
Cleaning up a rural gravesite
มุมมอง 269 หลายเดือนก่อน
Teresa has a rural family plot of her great grandparents. The site was overgrown with weeds and the gravemarkers had deteriorated. She tells of working with a cousin to restore the gravesite into a good condition. The plot is located in rural Alberta near Medicine Hat.
Converting Clippings to Text
มุมมอง 5611 หลายเดือนก่อน
Do you have a stack of newspaper clippings? Documents? Want to retype them into your family study? Here is a quick and free shortcut to copying text-in-images into computer files, using the Windows snipping tool. As well as some history on my grandparents. #genealogy #OCR #convert_text #clippings #documents #photos #afhs #AFHS #Family_Research #Calgary #Benedict
The Shoebox
มุมมอง 11111 หลายเดือนก่อน
A shoebox full of papers is handed over to Ron while visiting relatives one summer. It contains some photos, letters and postcards connecting him to his grandfather who signed up to fight for Canada in World War One. They contain letters from the trenches and are priceless discoveries. #genealogy #ww1 #military #trenches #letters #photos #afhs #AFHS #Family_Research #warhero #gilmore
Lest We Forget
มุมมอง 69ปีที่แล้ว
Personal story of an uncle who flew in Lancasters for the R.C.A.F. His life in Calgary, military record, and marker in the Field of Crosses along Memorial Drive, November 2023. #genealogy #ww2 #rcaf #afhs #AFHS #Family_Research #warhero #webber #filedofcrosses
Canada Census 1931
มุมมอง 83ปีที่แล้ว
Bev Swan gives us an introduction to the release of the Canada Census of 1931, along with a few tips of finding your ancestors while awaiting the indexing process. #genealogy #Canada_Census #1931_census #Alberta_Ancestors #AFHS #Family_Research #afhs
AI for Genealogy
มุมมอง 91ปีที่แล้ว
John Smiley introduces a new technology for genealogists: Artificial Intelligence, or "AI". A brief description is followed by a demonstration of Chat GPT, a free-use AI web tool, in having it answer your questions for your family research. #genealogy #AI_genealogy #Alberta_Ancestors #AFHS #Family_Research
Ireland's Travellers
มุมมอง 72ปีที่แล้ว
Ron Gilmore tells us about the lives, characteristics and the genealogy traits of the gypsies of Ireland, the Irlsh Travellers. A distinct group of people, characterized by horse and power pulled caravans with their own unique language. #genealogy #Ireland #Irish_Trevellers #Alberta_Ancestors #AFHS #Family_Research #afhs