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. 

"Yomidas Rekishikan" goes on-line - 135 years of Japanese newspapers - at a price though

And, speaking of digitized historical newspapers, as many of us have been this week (the Paper of Record 'storm' - John D. Reid's been blogging about this) ResearchBuzz tweeted this morning about The Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest newspaper publisher in Japan, offering a new on-line database service called "Yomidas Rekishikan" (History Pavilion) to celebrate its 135-year anniversary this year - the first issue was published 2 November, 1874. An annual subscription though will be over $3000. But if you have access to a university or other academic institution, perhaps it will be available to you. I wonder if the Japanese Canadian National Museum right here in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada might want to subscribe?

The database will have:

- Images of Yomiuri Shimbun pages from1874 to 1989
-Texts of Yomiuri Shimbun articles from 1986
-Texts of Daily Yomiuri articles from 1989
- and "a Japanese-language database featuring about 26,000 contemporary key individuals, their careers and achievements"

Victoria, BC, Canada: The Times Colonist Newspaper Puts History On-line

Tomorrow the Times Colonist newspaper of British Columbia, Canada will be officially 150 years old. All year, the paper has celebrated with special articles, columns and editions filled with British Columbia history. From its beginnings on Dec. 11, 1858, as the British Colonist, the paper has covered all our province's big stories and many of the everyday ones as well.

Congratulations to all the Victoria Times Colonist staff for a job well done (especially to Dave Obee) and congratulations and thanks go too to the paper's management for supporting this celebration. The modern Victoria Times Colonist is going to make a history section a permanent feature in the paper's website and, TA-DAH, tomorrow the first 50 years of the newspaper goes on-line.

I've been napping all week, just so I can stay up tomorrow night and read!

GO TO: http://www.britishcolonist.ca


Co-incidentally, tomorrow is also my baby brother's birthday. No, no, he's not 150! He might be 50 something, but I'm not telling any more than that.

Happy Birthday, Baby Bother!

Victoria Times Colonist, "150 years of bringing you the news": http://www.timescolonist.com/years+bringing+news/1043994/story.html