Our tenth entry for the chance to win 2 free tickets for the Arizona Family History Expo!

Submitted by Palmo Carpino in the category “a genealogy related photo from your travels to discover your roots”.

Photo credit: Palmo Carpino
Location: Galts Farm, Coutts Alberta.

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Entry #9 for the chance to win 2 free tickets for the Arizona Family History Expo!

Submitted by Palmo Carpino in the category “a genealogy related photo from your travels to discover your roots”.

Photo Credit:  Palmo Carpino

Location: Galts Farm, Coutts, Alberta, Summer 2009

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Our seventh entry for the chance to win 2 free tickets for the Arizona Family History Expo!

Submitted by Palmo Carpino.

Photo credit: Palmo Carpino

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[Editor: For your chance to win two free tickets to the Arizona Family History Expo, please go here. Entries will be accepted up to and including January 10, 2010.]

Our fourth entry for the chance to win 2 free tickets for the Arizona Family History Expo!

Submitted by Palmo Carpino in the category “a genealogy related photo from your travels to discover your roots”.

PHOTO CREDIT: Palmo Carpino

Location: Galts Farm, Southern Alberta

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[Editor: For your chance to win two free tickets to the Arizona Family History Expo, please go here. Entries will be accepted up to and including January 10, 2010.]

Our third entry for the chance to win 2 free tickets for the Arizona Family History Expo!

Submitted by Palmo Carpino in the category “a genealogy related photo from your travels to discover your roots”.

PHOTO CREDIT: Palmo Carpino

Location: Galts Farm, Southern Alberta

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[Editor: For your chance to win two free tickets to the Arizona Family History Expo, please go here. Entries will be accepted up to and including January 10, 2010.]

Our first entry has arrived for the chance to win 2 free tickets for the Arizona Family History Expo!

Submitted by Palmo Carpino in the category “a genealogy related photo from your travels to discover your roots”.

PHOTO CREDIT: Palmo Carpino

Location: Galts Farm, Southern Alberta

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[Editor: For your chance to win two free tickets to the Arizona Family History Expo, please go here. Entries will be accepted up to and including January 10, 2010.]

Best Publication, County or Local Category

Xenia Stanford, Professional Genealogist,  Author,  and Editor of the “Chinook”, the Alberta Family Histories Society’s (AFHS) newsletter was recently honoured with one of the genealogy world’s most coveted prizes – The U.S. National Genealogy Society Award for best publication, county or local category.

Winning the award meant Xenia and her colleague Rosemary Kry, chair to the Periodical Committee, made the trip to Raleigh, North Carolina to accept their certificate at the opening ceremonies of the American organization’s national conference.

The award winning newsletter ‘Chinook’ is published 4 times a year and is is free as part of the membership in the Alberta Family Histories Society. Annual membership costs $35 and includes access to AFHS’s library of resources of books and subscriptions to online databases to help you research your genealogy.

AFHS Membership

712 – 16 Avenue NW
Calgary, AB T2M 0J8
(403) 214-1447 (voice mail)

http://www.afhs.ab.ca/society/memship.html

The AFHS was founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization with the purpose of encouraging and promoting an interest in family history research in Calgary and district.

Genealogists in Canada and elsewhere will be interested to hear of the Canadian Headstone Photo Project. This looks like a worthwhile cause if you are interested in volunteering. 

“The mission of this project is to capture digital images of  headstones of our ancestors. As decades pass — many stones are becoming harder, if not impossible, to read the inscriptions they originally contained. By archiving the images, we can help save these important records and also assist researchers using this valuable resource.  This Headstone Photo Project is a privately sponsored, non-profit, educational site. Success of the Project depends completely upon the activities of many volunteers and other individuals who contribute photographs to the archive.”

If you enjoy photography and would relish a worthwhile volunteer project, consider helping with this one.  The Website is here: http://canadianheadstones.com/

Our Roots is a library, archive, museum and school all in one.  The collection features scanned versions of Canadian local histories in French and English.  There are also Educational Resources for learning packages for students and teachers.

I recently used the resource to access a local history publication featuring a small town in Saskatchewan, near where my grandparents had farmed.  An article written by my grandmother was featured in the publication.  She mentioned many family members and neighbours  and various activities that occurred over a time period of fifty years.  She also mentioned the birthdates of her parents and where they lived.  Local histories such as these can greatly aid the genealogist in their research.

Access to Our Roots is free upon registration.