The Alberta Family Histories Society, based in Calgary Alberta, is a non-profit organization. Formed in 1980, its goal is to promote and encourage family genealogical research, particularly where it pertains to Alberta history and records. The site contains some excellent collections of link for such areas of interest as: research guides, how to deal with dates and addresses, maps, advice on getting started, book vendors, medical/health issues, methodological aids/courses, dictionaries and word lists, genealogical e-zines, general resources and research advice, military information, one name studies, additional search engines, surnames, social aspects of history, and other omnibus sites.
The Alberta provincial genealogical society whose goal is to promote and encourage family genealogical research, particularly where it pertains to Alberta’s history and records.
One of the largest genealogical search databases available for all worldwide activity, though requires a subscription. With this said, however, it only covers a very small percentage of all of the genealogically-related material ever created!
Basic measures, such as weight, length, volume, or area were used by people in any part of the globe since the down of the civilization. Not only there were no universal system for all, even within the same country measures often were different from place to place. The same measures could also significantly change in time as standards were not yet invented.
This is a budget-friendly, scaled-down version of Ancestry.com, its owner. The core historical record collections are for the United States, so this may be a good option for beginning researchers who believe their families have been in the United States for several generations.
Interested in hiring a professional genealogist? Here is a list of our other peers connected to this fellow organization.
Interested in becoming a certified genealogist or hiring a professional genealogist? Here is a wonderful organization that provides testing, certification, skill-building ideas, and a roster of peer-reviewed certificants who belong to this organization.
The British Columbia Genealogical Society (BCGS) was incorporated in 1971. Its members have been researching, preserving and publishing their own family histories and that of British Columbian families for more than 50 years.
This article compares several selected client-based genealogy programs. Web-based genealogy software is not included.
Began in 1996, and updated regularly, this site has collected an amazing number of genealogical links to other sites on the World Wide Web. Well worth consulting regardless of the period and region of your investigations.
Learn more about documenting your family history, the standards that have been established for genealogical documentation and why, and how to make your history on your family enlightening, and lively.
Source: Random Acts of Kindness – Family Tree Encyclopedia
This describes the various old-time Illnesses and Diseases that you will find in old documents, medical records or listed as causes of death on old death certificates or in old family Bibles.