Showing posts with label BCGS Walter Draycott Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BCGS Walter Draycott Library. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2013

BC Genealogical Society Library Week - Geneabloggers visiting and volunteering in Surrey, BC

In case anyone's wondering where I am, I've been busy volunteering for the British Columbia Genealogical Society's annual Library Week. Still two days left to visit !

BCGS Walter Draycott Library   shelf, 2013


This is our free Library Week - anyone can come and see what BCGS has at its Walter Draycott Library in Surrey, BC, get some help if they are starting out with genealogy or have hit an obstacle in their research. Many stay all day and attend the classes we offer each day to learn something new. It's always great to meet and talk to both the newbies and others who've been doing genealogy a while. We all can learn so much from each other.

This week there have been two Canadian Geneabloggers here besides myself, Celia Lewis and Yvonne Demoskoff.

Celia blogs at Twigs and Trees. She has some great surnames in her family! (I'm a bit jealous.)  Her last post is about her GILLESPIE-ARMSTRONG families though. Do have a look in case you have a connection there.

And Yvonne, who writes Yvonne's Genealogy Blog, has just started Doukhobor Photos, featuring photographs from the Demoskoff family albums. She's hoping to identify some of the people and places in the photos which are from Saskatchewan and British Columbia, Canada. Drop by, have a good look and let Yvonne know if you can help.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

BC Genealogical Society - Free Library Week - Surrey BC

Free BCGS Library Week continues - July 19th to 24th, 2010.

From July 19th to July 24th, the BCGS Walter Draycott Library will be open each day from 10 to 3 pm. Free.

Different geographic areas are featured each day, but visitors are welcome any day.

Monday was Scotland; Tuesday, Ireland; Wednesday, England, Thursday, Canada; Friday, USA; Saturday, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

This year there are talks and demonstrations each day by BCGS Special Interest Group facilitators and volunteers.

For the week's schedule, see the BCGS 'What's New' page on-line or follow this link for a printable pdf file:
http://www.bcgs.ca/Documents/Archived%20files/Library%20Week%20Schedule%20July%202010.pdf

BCGS Walter Draycott Library: #211, 12837 - 76th Ave., Surrey, BC.
Telephone: 604 502 9119

BCGS website: www.bcgs.ca Library catalogues, information on Special Interest Groups, directions to the Library and a map link, etc.