Welcome to the British Columbia Genealogical Society

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Our members have been researching and preserving and publishing their own families and British Columbia’s families since 1971. This year, 2011, is our Society’s 40th anniversary.

The British Columbia Genealogical Society has been on the World Wide Web since 1996. This will soon be our new website – it’s not yet complete.

This is the link to our ‘old’ BCGS website database list. Here is the old BCGS What’s New page and the BCGS Membership page. And here is the link to the BCGS mobile site. You may find more there for now, but please have a look at what’s here first.

We welcome new members and visitors and invite you to see what we offer on-line and at our BCGS Walter Draycott Library in Surrey, BC and at our monthly meetings in Burnaby, BC.

Please visit our Research, Walter Draycott Library and Membership sections to see what resources are available to you here.

 

BCGS Seminar with Dave Obee, 14 April 2012, Burnaby

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Location: At the Danish Lutheran Church Downstairs Hall, 6010 Kincaid St., Burnaby.

Date/time: Saturday, 14 April, all day, 9am – 4 pm, (doors open 8:30am). Lunch and refreshments included.

Topics: See the Dave Obee seminar brochure for details of each talk.

Dave Obee, genealogy and family history instructor

Three sessions with Dave Obee.

  • The Great Canadian Census Quiz
  • The Geography of Genealogy
  • Tracing Forward to Find Distant Cousins

 

and a session on Genetic Genealogy – Now it’s for everybody with M. Diane Rogers.

The BCGS Boutique will be there too with genealogy books, research aids and novelties.

Registration:

Early Bird Prices until March 26, 2012:

Tickets $45.00 for BCGS & Affiliate [Society] Members.
$52.00 for non-members (lunch & refreshments included).

From March 27th, the prices increase: $50.00 for BCGS & Affiliate (Society) Members; $60.00 for non-members.

To register, please contact Susan Snalam at 604-273-8209, email domers4 @ shaw.ca OR Lorraine Irving at 604-874-8748, email lorraine.irving42 @ gmail.com, and then send your cheque, made out to the BCGS, to PO Box 88054, Lansdowne Mall, Richmond, BC V6X 3T6 or pay at BCGS meetings. We will also accept payment by Visa or by PayPal via our website www.bcgs.ca. Ask about those options.

Unpacking the Digital Shoebox Symposium – 17 February 2012 – UBC, Vancouver

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Location: Frederick Wood Theatre, University of British Columbia, 8:15am – 4 pm, Friday, 17 February 2012.

The Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapters’ 4th annual International Student Symposium “Unpacking the Digital Shoebox: The Future of Personal Archives”.

Speakers and their topics:

  • Elizabeth Yakel – “Other People’s Data: Disciplinary Traditions and Data Reuse”
  • Babak Hamidzadeh – “An Iterative & Evolutionary Framework for Digital Repository Development”
  • Philip Bantin – “An Evolving Partnership: Managing the Digital Output of Academic Faculty”
  • Catherine Hobbs – “Centring Ideas of Personal Digital Context on Behaviour and Mindset”
  • Patricia Franks – “Virtual Time Capsule: Sharing Our Lives and Times with Future Generations”
  • Jeannette Bastian – “Putting the Archivist in Community Archives”
  • Randall Jimerson – “To Transcend Myself: Narcissism and the Digital Attic”
  • Erik Borglund – “Personal Record Repositories, within the Police, a Hidden Knowledge Reservoir: A Talk about How Police Officers Keep Personal Records for Future Use”

Attendance is open to all information enthusiasts, students, and faculty.

For more information, check out the website:
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/people/students/student-groups/aca/symposium2012/index.html

Vancouver Public Library – public consultation on collections

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Vancouver Public Library is continuing its public consultations and has a new ‘conversation kit’ regarding the collections on-line here:http://pwp.vpl.ca/freeforall/

You can follow along with the adventure offered or just answer a list of questions.

And you can submit your responses by e-mail or in print. Deadline: 27 February 2012.

And there are prizes!

Check the ‘Latest Research’ tab for a report about VPL collections and ‘trends’. The report does mention historical newspapers, genealogy resources and Special Collections, including the digitizing of over 25,000 photographs and The BC Saturday Sunset, 1907-1915.

 

 

BRIDGING THE PAST, Hope, BC, History Conference, March 2012

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2012 Hope History Conference, ‘Bridging the Past’, is from March 2nd to 4th and is organized jointly by the Hope Museum, Christ Church National Historic Site, Free Rein Associates, and the Seventh Day Adventist Church will be held at Christ Church National Historic Site.

Look for more details on Facebook, posted on the Christ Church Historic Site’s page. For more information and registration, contact Inge Wilson, at the Hope Museum, 604-869-7322 or destinationhope@telus.net

SPEAKERS
-  Early missionary work & The Great Indian Gathering in Hope – Darla Dickinson
- “Gold Mountain” – the first multicultural community – Lily Chow
- The Fraser Canyon War – a clash of cultures. – Dr. Dan Marshall
- The establishment of First Nations Residential Schools – Father John Tritshler
- Chinese Immigration and the CPR – Lily Chow
- The World War II Internment of Japanese-Canadians & Tashme – Linda Reid & Irene Tsuyuki of the Japanese Canadian Museum
- The Doukhobor March & Sons of Freedom protest – Larry Ewashen

 

BCGS General Meeting Reminder – Feb 8, 2012 in Burnaby

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MEETING REMINDER – The next BC Genealogical Society Meeting is Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at 7:30 pm at Edmonds Community Centre, 7282 Kingsway (Kingsway & Edmonds), Burnaby V5E 1G3.

Three sessions:

Discussion Group – Love & Marriage – courtship customs, records, witnesses, churches, banns.
Scottish Group –
US Group – Are you ready for the 1940 census??  Elvin Meyers will talk on “Researching My Powell Line”.  His main research area is the US so he will focus on that part of the research.  We will also include some commentary on the upcoming release of the 1940 US Census.

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BCGS General Meetings: the second Wednesday of every month, 7:30 pm at Edmonds Community Centre, 7282 Kingsway (Kingsway & Edmonds), Burnaby V5E 1G3.

Chinese Genealogy Group – Downtown Vancouver – 28 Feb 2012

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The next Chinese Genealogy User Group will meet Tuesday, 28th February from 6-8pm at Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, Room 391 on level 3.

Members will be sharing their Chinese genealogy research experiences.

Please come and find out what may inspire you.

For more info, contact either May Yan at myan @ graam.ca or Kevin Lee cctour.siyi @ xoxy.net (Remove the spaces in the e-mail addresses.)

BCGS E-mail

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If you sent an e-mail to the BCGS yesterday, and have not received a reply, please resend your message. There was an e-mail ‘hiccup’ but all should be working well now.

If in any doubt, please e-mail: diane_rogers @ shaw.ca (removing the spaces).

Thank you!

More Upcoming Genealogy / History Events – Vancouver

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VANCOUVER

Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Hycroft Tuesday Evening Lecture Series, at Hycroft  1489 McRae Avenue, SW of Granville, Vancouver, Tuesday Evenings, 7 – 8:45 pm $12 each. Register online, Vancouver Heritage Foundation.

History of Exterior House Colour, with Donald Luxton, the history of residential paint colour from earliest buildings to the high-style heritage homes of the early 20th century.  17 January, 2012, 7pm.

History of Neon Light in Vancouver, with John Atkin, 21 February, 2012, 7pm.

Historic Stained Glass in Vancouver, with Jim Wolf, 6 March, 2012, 7 pm.

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Stanley Park Photographic Exhibit, with Jolene Cumming, Saturday, 21 January 2012, Nature House on Lost Lagoon, 12 noon – 3 pm. Drop in; by donation. Details, Stanley Park Ecology Society.

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Chinese-Canadian Veterans: Loyalty to Country, an exhibition examining the history of Chinese-Canadian veterans who, although loyal to this country, were subjected to discriminatory laws. Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society.  24 – 27 January, 2012 at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver in the David Lam Hall, 50 Pender St E, Vancouver.

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Central Branch, Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia, Vancouver.

Chinese Genealogy Research with Ancestry Library Edition, Saturday, 28 January 2012, 1 – 3 pm.

Ancestry Library Edition, free hand-on workshop, Tuesday, 21 February, 2012, 2:30 – 4pm. Computer Training Room, Level 7.

FamilySearch.org, hands-on workshop, Sunday 4 March 4, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm.  Free. Registration required. Computer Training Room, Level 7.