Finding Your Roots - October 2016 - Surrey BC

Just the day for #genealogy! Today I'm at the annual Finding Your Roots seminar in Surrey, BC talking about genealogy and family history all day.

Are you registered for my 'Blogging Your Family History' session? Hope you downloaded your handout. If not, you still have time.

Looking for my Really Simple Geneablog Editorial Calendar?  Here is the download link. If you need this in another format, contact me.

Don't forget to let me know if you are interested in a hands-on session soon. Look for me at the BC Genealogical Society sales and display area.

Enjoy Finding Your Roots! It is a priceless genealogy experience.

Vintage Photos: People and Their Pets

Well, it's been a busy fall, perhaps too busy, but one of the genealogical highlights of this season is always the Finding Your Roots all day seminar co-sponsored by the Abbotsford, Surrey and Vancouver Stakes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the three local Churches with Family History Centers. This year again the Seminar was well attended and very well organized. Everyone I talked to seemed energized by the many sessions given on a wide variety of topics and the opportunities to meet and talk with others - both beginners and experienced researchers. Save the date for next year - Saturday 15th October 2011!

One of my talks this year was about researching family photographs and, since one of my aims is to get people to 'make their own history' with family images, I was most interested to learn that one of the attendees already had a photographic project of her own underway.

Anna Camporese is collecting vintage black and white photos of people with their pets for an future exhibition - a fund raiser for animal welfare. This sounds to me like a great idea. I'm really looking forward to seeing her exhibit. The audience was enthusiastic too. To submit your photographs, contact her at Anna.Camporese @ shaw.ca (delete the spaces in the e-mail address first) or at 604 760 5235.

I do have a number of photographs of family with pets - mostly they had cats, I think, on my father's side, but more dogs on my mother's. Wish I'd asked my mum why we never had a dog. Probably there were some practical reasons, but maybe our cat Twink just wouldn't have stood for that! (I'm a cat person myself, in case you hadn't guessed.)

Now here is one of my family pet photos. I've posted this one before but it is my favourite - Dad with Blackie the cat, his younger brother, David, their mum and dad, Sarah (Saggers) and Joe Rogers, and (the mysterious) Viola on a visit to Vancouver in 1925. You'll see this one on Dead Fred too with some additional photographs taken during the visit.

Finding Your Roots - 15th Annual Family HIstory Seminar - Surrey BC

'Finding Your Roots' 15th Annual Tri-Stake Family History Seminar

17 October, 2009, Saturday - All day - 8am to 4 pm

Free!

6270 - 126th St., Surrey, BC, Canada
Telephone: 604 597 9695

Keynote Speakers

Brenda Smith - 'Pack Your Parachute' and 'Organize: The 2nd Prime Directive'

Dave Obee -'Writing Your Family History' and 'Introduction to Eastern European Genealogy'

Eunice Robinson - 'Ireland' - a session each for Beginners and Advanced, and 'What to do with Your Research'

Jim Terry - Legacy Family Tree 7.0 and Legacy FamilySearch

Lyn McGonigal - New Family Search with Family Insight

Penny Christensen - 'Pedigree Analysis' and 'Recording & Documenting Research'

Many more speakers and topics all day - from DNA to scrapbooking to maps, from Latin America to Christian India to Scotland.

Also talks on researching at Cloverdale Branch Library (Surrey Public Library), Family History Centers (in the Lower Mainland, in Burnaby, Surrey, Abbotsford) and at the BC Genealogical Society's Walter Draycott Library (in Surrey).

Members of many local genealogical organizations, including the BC Genealogical Society, will be on hand all day with displays and with genealogical resources - research guides, CDs, books, magazines, etc. - for sale.

Free. Attend one or five sessions. Full agenda available on the Finding Your Roots Seminar website.

Please pre-register on-line. A $5. box lunch can be ordered on-line as well when you register. Hot apple cider and herbal teas will be available for sale. No coffee as this seminar is at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - church members abstain from coffee. Please see the FAQ at the Seminar website (link above).

I'll be leading the BCGS Walter Draycott Library session. Don't hesitate to ask for me - I will be around the BC Genealogical Society tables for part of the day at least.