Kamloops Family History Society Seminar 2015 - A Great Success!

Family History - Past to Present, the Kamloops Family History Society's 2015 Seminar held this weekend was a great success. Attendees and presenters all enjoyed themselves.

The Keynote Speaker was Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi's List, and the other speakers were Claudia Breland, Lyn Meeham and myself. 

The Society, especially the conference committee, deserve warm thanks for all the thought and hard work that went into the conference.

If you live near Kamloops and are not already a member of the KFHS I certainly suggest you join. This is a very friendly group. I certainly hope to see them again soon. 

For those in my Deadline! Researching Newspapers for Family Historians talk, here are the links I promised you. Happy newspaper reading! I'd love to hear what you find. 

Newspaper Collection, Library and Archives Canada. Geographical microfilm list; geographical list of published indexes (not complete but useful as a starting point), : http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/newspapers/newspaper-collection/Pages/newspapers-collection.aspx 

And Library and Archives Canada has some "Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers" on-line. (An archived exhibit): http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadian-newspapers/index-e.html

British Columbia digitized newspapers & indexes, British Columbia Genealogical Society: http://www.bcgs.ca/?page_id=541  The lastest digitized papers added are for Kamloops, BC! 

Wikipedia – List of worldwide online newspaper archives - worldwide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives

For those in my Genetic Genealogy talk, here are the additional links I promised.

Books 

Genetic Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond by Emily D. Aulicino

Ebook and paper: http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000686866/Genetic-Genealogy.aspx

DNA for Genealogists by Kerry Farmer

E-book: http://www.gen-ebooks.com/dna-for-genealogists-3rd-ed.html

Paper: http://www.gould.com.au/DNA-for-Genealogists-p/utp0291.htm

DNA Lectures, Who Do You Think You Are? Live - 2015: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HQSiSkiy7ujlkgQER1FYw

And be sure to check your names to see if anyone is doing a study of those families already. They may have a DNA project or be intending to start one.

Guild of One-Name Studies: http://one-name.org/

The Surname Society: http://surname-society.org/


Any other info you'd like? Just e-mail me. I'll do my best to help. 

FamilyTreeDNA sale starts tonight - DNA Day

For those who attended my Genetic Genealogy talk last weekend, here's some welcome news.

FamilyTreeDNA.com is having a short sale. Nearly all the offerings will be on sale, including upgrades that were not on last year's sale. The sale begins at 6 PM April 19th and concludes at 11:59 PM on Saturday the 21st (Central time, U.S.)

No coupon required this time. Prices on the website will be adjusted.

For more information, check out FamilyTreeDNA's Facebook page or see CeCeMoore's latest post at Your Genetic Genealogist. If you're interested in the uses of DNA for genealogy, I do recommend following Your Genetic Genealogist.

Dick Eastman Reports on ''Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE!' - from London, England

Dick Eastman has an article up now with thoughts and photographs from today - the second day of the third annual 'Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE!' (WDYTYA) genealogy show in London, England. Looks wonderful - nothing like that in Canada - or indeed in North America. Although there are some large North American genealogy conferences, I don't think any have this many sponsors, vendors and exhibitors involved, and none have the same long queues of people waiting to get inside!

One of the WDYTYA speakers though is Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak. She'll be speaking right here in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada in just one week now.

It's often seemed that the Brits (and Europeans in general) don't seem to be as interested in DNA and genealogy as many North Americans are. From what Dick says and shows, it sounds as if this has changed. That will be good for all of us - the more people in the DNA genealogy databases, the more chances of finding a match.

Dick Eastman's going to be posting a wrapup of the weekend's activities at WDYTYA, so check back on his newsletter tomorrow too.

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Day 1: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/02/a-report-from-london-wdytyal-day-1-with-pictures.html

Day 2: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/02/a-report-from-london-wdytyal-day-2-with-pictures.html