Category: Family History Forums

Topic: Research in the Prairie Provinces – Finding Your Family Story, presented by Mary Read Were you born in one of the prairie provinces? Did your ancestors immigrate and live on a farm? Did they homestead? Did they own...

Family History Forums are a partnership presentation series of the Kelowna & District Genealogical Society and the Okanagan Regional Library. Oct 24, 2023, 6:30-8:00pm: Topic: Putting the Flesh on Your Ancestor’s Bones:...

Finding Females in Your Family Tree, presenter Xenia Stanford Finding records for women especially prior to the mid-twentieth century can be difficult and sometimes seemingly impossible. Most historical records focused on men...

TOPIC: Church Registers Online, presenter Claire Smith-Burns More and more church register transcriptions and images are becoming accessible online. Learn how to find these, decipher them and download images for your own family...

Topic:  From whence did they come? Finding the place of origin for your Immigrant Ancestor, presenter Claire Smith-Burns Before you can start researching records of your Immigrant Ancestors to Canada in their country of origin,...

Topic: Using Passenger & Immigration Records in your Family History, presenters Xenia Stanford & Mary Read Chances are, your ancestors arrived in this country on a ship. Finding a record of this journey can be a...

Family History Forum, Tuesday, March 28, 6:30pm, via Zoom: Topic: Census and Other Lists for Genealogists, presenter Claire Smith-Burns Census records provide a snapshot of your family on a given day in history. Typically,...

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 6:30pm, Claire Smith-Burns of the Kelowna & District Genealogical Society. Topic: Have you heard? Resources for Okanagan Local and Family History Description: There are some fabulous resources online and in...

Topic: Beginners Series: Sources, presenter Claire Smith-Burns This is an introduction to genealogical sources of information: What are they? How do I learn about them? We will cover the classification of sources into Original,...

Beginners Series: Navigating Names in Family History, presenter Claire Smith-Burns Genealogy is built on three elements: Names, Dates and Places. We will learn about Names, including spellings, Anglicization, variants,...