Mining Online Resources using the AFHS Website
Gensoft 2000 - 25 March 2000
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Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry

Intent

• Finding aid for indexes, transcriptions, extractions of data to advance individual genealogical work

Coverage

• Canada - only
• Canada - "comprehensively"

Award

• From New England Historical Genealogy Society (NEHGS)

Tour of Registry

• ALBERTA - DEATH - CEMETERY RECORDS - Communities K-M - Medicine Hat/Ebenezer-Salem
  once into site of another organization ... they're your resource, may provide map, publication order form, database query resource, or online finding aid
• ALBERTA - DEATH - CEMETERY RECORDS - Communities C - Calgary - Burnsland - Fred Green
• BRITISH COLUMBIA - BIRTH - CIVIL RECORDS - British Columbia Registrations - Jane & Sarah Toop
• NOVA SCOTIA - CENSUS - 1891 - Antigonish - Williams
• ALBERTA - CENSUS - 1901 - Green, Fred (Calgary) (p. 4, line 29) b 1874 in USA
• ALBERTA - OTHER - MILITARY - Northwest Trek
• ONTARIO - CENSUS - 1901 - London - Hill family
• ONTARIO - MARRIAGE - CHURCH RECORDS - Lancaster Methodist (book)

Glenbow Museum & Archives

• Enter the Glenbow
• Archives
• Search the Archives
• Wood & Green - grocers from early part of century

• Enter the Glenbow
• Library
• Search the Library
• Word Wheel - Menn (Gem)

Using AFHS Website

Getting Started

• Getting Started - with Brian Hutchison, owner of Gen-Find Research Associates - see especially Gen-Find's pages on Hiring a Pro and Ethics in Genealogy
• Search Resources
  • Addresses:
    • Alberta
    • World Pages
  • Dictionaries:
    Online Dictionaries - see German dictionary for meaning of Schneider
  • E-zines:
    can be regular motivators and reassuring resources. See Global Gazette, the premier one in Canada with coverage outside of Canada as well
  • General Resources/Advice:
    • Fraud - this is genealogy's 'four letter word' - be sure to read why you simply can't pick up your family history for $50-100 (esp Psst...)
    • Newspapers Around the World - even if YOUR newspaper doesn't publish obituaries, or archive them online, you may run into stories about potential family members, or contacts or develop a sense of the local 'culture' to set your family heritage in perspective
    • Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - just the ticket for information about a stray in a place you're unlikely to need to learn about deeply. Do consider becoming a volunteer as well.
  • Places/Maps
    • Geomatics - Canada - includes historical places
    • Expedia - a great place to get a fix on contemporary places and what they're near to.
    • English Street Maps - the best resource for UK maps!
  • Methods:
    • Primer on Old Handwriting - most appropriate for US
    • Charts - even the most dedicated computer junkie sometimes needs a paper form...
  • Omnibus Sites:
    • Cyndi's List
    • Family Search (LDS)
    • Family Tree Maker
    • John Fuller's Mailing Lists
    • Ancestry - fee based
  • Social Aspects of History
    • Century in Shoes
• Software - Check out PAF in particular - for a new genealogy computer user; GedPage for independent approach to uploading information onto a website