Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Cloverdale Library - Family History Show & Tell - 13 November 2010

You are invited to attend this upcoming event at the Cloverdale Library:Second Annual Family History Show and Tell!

Last year people who document their family history brought in their creations – there were family quilts, artfully done scrapbooks, storyboards, digital collages and much more. Join in this year and take whatever you’ve made to honour your ancestors. Perhaps you’ll find an excellent Christmas gift idea too.

You are welcome to share by describing your project or by just showcasing your wares. It might be something simple, something elaborate or even a work in progress. A laptop with the Internet and a projector will be available to demonstrate online projects such as family history websites or digital collections.

Visitors without projects are welcome and light refreshments will be available.

Saturday, November 13, 2010, 10:30am – 12:30pm
No charge, donations welcome
Please register at 604-598-7328, or email familyhistory@surrey.ca

The Surrey Libraries' Canadian Family History Collection is housed at the Cloverdale Library. Located in the heart of Cloverdale, Surrey's historic town centre, this modern 10,000 sq. ft. two-storey facility is fully wheelchair accessible.
The Family History department, on the second floor, includes seven microfilm/fiche reader/printers, a photocopier, three dedicated computers for Ancestry Library Edition and Heritage Quest, a CD ROM station, and a general use meeting room for Family History programmes, including the Family History Show and Tell.
Cloverdale Library - Location - 5642 - 176A St., Surrey, BC V3S 4G9

Monday, November 08, 2010

Domestic Medicine in Scotland - lecture - Nov 25, 2010 - Vancouver BC

Here's an event of interest to genealogists, historians and those interested in Scotland. Sponsored by Simon Fraser University's Scottish Studies.

St. Andrews and Caledonian Society Lecture: “William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine: An International Scottish Best-Seller”.

7:00-8:30, Thursday, November 25, 2010: Room 1420, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, BC.

For nearly a century after its initial publication in Edinburgh in 1769, Domestic Medicine, by the Scottish physician William Buchan, was by far the most popular home health guide in Britain and North America. Families passed it down from generation to generation, and some of them are reputed to have organized their lives around its teachings. Yet precisely because Domestic Medicine empowered ordinary people to make their own decisions about medical matters, it placed Buchan into a confrontational relationship with some members of the medical profession. At the same time, the book’s extraordinary commercial success, coupled with Buchan’s desperate circumstances, created tensions between the author and his publishers. In this illustrated lecture, Dr. Richard B. Sher uses the methodology of book history to achieve new insight into these issues.

Simon Fraser University's Scottish Studies Department: http://scottish.sfu.ca

Electric Scotland's biography of Doctor William Buchan: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/buchan_william.htm

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Is It Still Halloween?

Very strange...very strange indeed...

This week out of the blue two people far apart have each sent me just the right kind of link to info I was looking for - yet they had no way of knowing how timely their help would be.

First Susan Smith-Josephy, who is writing 'the' book about Lillian Alling (aka the woman who walked to Russia), sent me a link to Anne Morddel's The French Genealogy Blog about researching in France. I thought that was nice timing, as I'm looking for someone who was born in France.

But now tonight, Marina Antunes of Row Three and Lower Mainland BookCrossing fame sent me a link to the State Library of New South Wales's Flickr collection, not knowing I'm soon doing a talk on Australian and New Zealand war records. There's a set of photos there I really like - women Knitting for "Our Boys" - complete with a song. Have a look (and a listen).

Very cool, but a little spooky, don't you think?
But don't stop sending me those links! (And maybe you have a James or John Battice...born about 1860...I still need the 'right' one.)