CANCELLED - 2020 GENEALOGY EVENTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA…a few.

Plan to attend at least one face to face genealogy event a season.

CANCELLATION NOTES - ALL in person events are cancelled due to health concerns. Check the event websites for updates. 

Check these and your local institutions and organizations for upcoming events. Many genealogy events are free. Check local groups for monthly meetings with speakers or special topics.

LOWER MAINLAND - GREATER VANCOUVER

Cloverdale Library, Family History Department – temporarily housed at City Centre Branch, Surrey. The Genealogy section will close temporarily starting Feb 23, 2020 to move. Reopening March 9th back at Cloverdale Branch! 

FAMILY HISTORY “WELCOME BACK” TEA & SOCIAL on Friday, March 13, from 2pm to 4pm.  Drop-in.  

See the new space, new books, and new databases!  Enjoy some refreshments and mingle with other family history enthusiasts.  Please join us!

Upon opening, the department’s resources (books, magazines, microfilms, and all databases) will be available during all of the library’s opening hours:

Monday to Thursday:  9:30am to 9pm

Friday: 9:30am to 5pm

Saturday: 10:00am to 5pm

Sunday: 1:00pm to 5pm

Cloverdale regularly offers workshops on Ancestry, etc. Regular talks on genealogy topics; monthly genealogy group session; genealogy courses with Brenda Smith.  

Family History Dept. website, Surrey Libraries: https://www.surreylibraries.ca/services/family-history 

Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch – monthly Downtown Vancouver Genealogy Group session, occasional genealogy sessions on Ancestry and special topics. 

DNA Session March 24th with M. Diane Rogers - free

Library & Archives Canada desk in Special Collections - open for consultations and questions.

Topical sessions with archivists occasionally offered. 

Vancouver Public Library website: https://www.vpl.ca/

Vancouver Historical Society website: https://www.vancouver-historical-society.ca/ 
The Womens' Suffrage Movement in Vancouver with Lara Campbell, March 26, 2020 7:30 pm at the Museum of Vancouver.
"A Seat at the Table:" History as a Forward-Looking Process with Henry Yu, April 2020 7:30 pm at the Museum of Vancouver.

FAMILY HISTORY CENTRES— 

Abbotsford, Surrey, Burnaby. 

CANCELLED - Abbotsford Family History Day free conference. Sat., April 25th, 2020: https://www.abbotsfordfamilyhistory.com/  

Surrey’s Finding Your Roots free Conference, Sat., Oct 2019: https://findingyourroots.ca/

BRITISH COLUMBIA FAMILY HISTORY CENTRES - links to information on hours, etc. 

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Category:British_Columbia_Family_History_Centres

LOWER MAINLAND LIBRARIES

New Westminster Public Library—5 sessions with M. Diane Rogers, free, beginning March 15, 2020 – various topics: https://www.nwpl.ca/events-calendar/ 

Download the Beginning handout here.

Download the Newspaper handout here.  Contact me for the Newspaper Research Log and/or for specific newspaper suggestions for your areas of interest.

Download the Online Sources handout here.

Download the Genes in Your Genealogy handout here.

Watch for events at these libraries - 

North Vancouver Library

West Vancouver Memorial Library

Squamish Library 

Delta Library

Richmond Libraries          

LOCAL GENEALOGICAL / FAMILY HISTORY GROUPS / ARCHIVES

Abbotsford Genealogical Society—monthly open sessions in the Society’s library at The Reach.  https://abbygs.ca/index.html  Postcards and Genealogy presentation, M. Diane Rogers, Feb 20th.

Port Coquitlam & Dogwood (Coquitlam) Genealogy Groups—monthly meetings. Guest speakers and discussion. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/pocogenealogy/ 

British Columbia Genealogical Society—monthly meetings in Burnaby, occasional talks, some ‘chats’ at the BCGS Library in Surrey.  https://www.bcgs.ca/ 

Maple Ridge Family History Group—monthly meetings, events and community projects. 

http://mapleridgemuseum.org/about-us/family-history/

Vancouver Island

Nanaimo Genealogical Society— monthly meetings. 

CANCELLED - Steps to Our Ancestors Seminar, March 28th with Dave Obee, Marie Palmer & Brenda Smith

https://nanaimofamilyhistory.ca/

Victoria Genealogical Society—monthly workshops and genealogy sessions; annual Seminar. http://www.victoriags.org/

Victoria Family History Center—monthly sessions, annual Family History Day conference (March?)  http://victoriafhc.org/index.html

Qualicum Beach Family History Society—annual Seminar. https://www.qbfhs.ca/ 

CANCELLED - Friends of the BC Archives, Victoria—Boom & Bust: The Resilient Women of Historic Telegraph Cove with Jennifer L. Butler,
March 15, 2020 - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm, Royal BC Museum. More info:  https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/bc-archives/info/friends-bc-archives

Okanagan

Kelowna & District Genealogical Society—monthly ‘Ask Us’ sessions at the main Kelowna Library.

Harvest Your Family Tree, Biennial conference, Sept 25/26, 2020.  http://www.kdgs.ca/  

FURTHER AFIELD IN BC

Vernon & District Family History Society—Meetings, occasional seminars. Website: http://www.vdfhs.com/

Kamloops Family History Society—Meetings, occasional seminars. Website: https://www.kfhs.org/

Prince Rupert Genealogy Club—Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PRGenealogyclub/

WASHINGTON STATE

Check the Washington State Genealogical Society Blog for events: https://wasgs.org/blog/  Watch for Cancellations. 

Don't forget to ask your local library or museum about sponsoring genealogy events and activities. If your group or event isn't covered here, do get in touch with me. 

I'd like to make this list as complete as I can. 

M. Diane Rogers

canadagenealogy @ shaw.ca 

The British Columbia Relief map above is courtesy Qyd and Wikimedia Commons. [No machine-readable author provided. Qyd assumed (based on copyright claims). / Public domain]