Regards

Gordon Lane
Vice Chair
AFHS Webster
Editor Chinook

Alberta Family Histories Society
http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Family website
http://www.rumbolt.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dist-gen@... [mailto:owner-dist-gen@...] On Behalf Of Frank Morrow
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:37 AM
To: dist-gen@...; Helen Backhouse
Subject: Re: AFHS LIBRARY

Hi Helen, congrats on the 'NEW' library. If there are no stairs to climb I'll drop by & take a look-see...........................if I knew when it was open!

Unfortunately the address is at a different site which provides a free
calander service. It's free lots of people use it so it can be difficult to
get through at times.

Explorer has an option that allows the page to be stored on your computer,
if you have this set then once you have a bad page it stays in Explorer's
memory until you force it to actually go to the original page.

I sometimes have to try numerous times when I need to change info on the
calander

Regards

Gordon Lane
Vice Chair
AFHS Webster
Editor Chinook

Alberta Family Histories Society
http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Family website
http://www.rumbolt.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dist-gen@...
> [mailto:owner-dist-gen@...] On Behalf Of ALISON FORTE
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:39 PM
> To: dist-gen@...
> Subject: Re: RE: AFHS LIBRARY
>
>
> Gordon,
>
> I'm I doing something wrong.  I have gone to that page a
> number of times over the last month and I get an error
> message.  It takes me too  http://www.calsnet.net/afhs I get
> the error message "The page cannot be displayed"
>
> Thanks Alison
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gordon Lane <gordonplane@...>
> Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:12 pm
> Subject: RE: AFHS LIBRARY
>
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > on the main afhs web page in the left hand upper panel you will
> > see a link
> > to Full Calander of Events which will give the opening times for
> > the library
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gordon Lane
> > Vice Chair
> > AFHS Webster
> > Editor Chinook
> >
> > Alberta Family Histories Society
> > http://www.afhs.ab.ca <" target="l">http://www.afhs.ab.ca/>
> >
> > Family website
> > http://www.rumbolt.com <" target="l">http://www.rumbolt.com/>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-dist-gen@...
> [owner-dist-gen@...] On
> > Behalf Of Frank Morrow
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:37 AM
> > To: dist-gen@...; Helen Backhouse
> > Subject: Re: AFHS LIBRARY
> >
> >
> > Hi Helen, congrats on the 'NEW' library. If there are no stairs to
> > climbI'll drop by & take a look-see...........................if I
> > knew when it
> > was open!
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
http://www.afhs.ab.ca

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Gordon,

I'm I doing something wrong.  I have gone to that page a number of times over
the last month and I get an error message.  It takes me too 
http://www.calsnet.net/afhs I get the error message "The page cannot be
displayed"

Thanks Alison

----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Lane <gordonplane@...>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:12 pm
Subject: RE: AFHS LIBRARY

> Hi Frank,
>
> on the main afhs web page in the left hand upper panel you will
> see a link
> to Full Calander of Events which will give the opening times for
> the library
>
> Regards
>
> Gordon Lane
> Vice Chair
> AFHS Webster
> Editor Chinook
>
> Alberta Family Histories Society
> http://www.afhs.ab.ca <" target="l">http://www.afhs.ab.ca/>
>
> Family website
> http://www.rumbolt.com <" target="l">http://www.rumbolt.com/>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dist-gen@... [owner-dist-gen@...]
> On Behalf Of Frank Morrow
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:37 AM
> To: dist-gen@...; Helen Backhouse
> Subject: Re: AFHS LIBRARY
>
>
> Hi Helen, congrats on the 'NEW' library. If there are no stairs to
> climbI'll drop by & take a look-see...........................if I
> knew when it
> was open!
>
>
>
>

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

David Pogue is a computer journalist for the NYT and CBS. He writes:


   Meeting the Googlers

   Set the TiVo! This Sunday morning, "CBS News Sunday Morning" will
begin with my report on Google, the Web search page-slash-cultural
deity that's expected to go public this Spring — the biggest in
high-tech history, with a valuation as high as $25 billion.

   It was a real kick to interview Google's executives and staff. Along
the way, I asked each interview subject to name their favorite Google
tips and tricks.

   Few of the tricks made it into the TV segment — but you, the shrewd
subscriber to this newsletter, get them hot off the press.

   • Download and install the Google toolbar. Not only does it put the
Google search box into your browser full-time, but it also blocks
pop-up ads and fills in forms for you. For Windows at
http://toolbar.google.com. (Ad blocking, form-filling and Google's
search box are already built into the Apple's Web browser, Safari.)

   • Phrase your question in the form of an answer. "After all, you're
not looking for Web pages that ask your question," explains director of
technology Craig Silverstein. "You're looking for pages that answer
it."

   So instead of typing, "What is the average rainfall in the Amazon
basin?", you might get better results by typing "The average rainfall
in the Amazon basin is."

   • This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases
that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric
curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of Web pages
containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word
"curtains."

   • Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out.
If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll have to wade through
a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins -Miami."

   • Google is a global White Pages and Yellow Pages. Search for
"phonebook:home depot norwalk, ct," Google instantly produces the
address and phone number of the Norwalk Home Depot. This works with
names ("phonebook:robert jones las vegas, NV") as well as businesses.

   Don't put any space after "phonebook." And in all of the following
examples, don't type the quotes I'm showing you here.

   • Google is a package tracker. Type a FedEx or UPS package number
(just the digits); when you click Search, Google offers a link to its
tracking information.

   • Google is a calculator. Type in an equation ("32+2345*3-234=").
Click Search to see the answer.

   • Google is a units-of-measurement converter. Type "teaspoons in a
gallon," for example, or "centimeters in a foot." Click Search to see
the answer.

   • Google is a stock ticker. Type in AAPL or MSFT, for example, to see
a link to the current Apple or Microsoft stock price, graphs, financial
news and so on.

   • Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a
Mapquest map of the area.

   • Google is Wal-Mart's computer. Type in a UPC bar code number, such
as "036000250015," to see the description of the product you've just
"scanned in." (Thanks to the Google Blog, http://google.blogspace.com,
for this tip and the next couple.)

   • Google is an aviation buff. Type in a flight number like "United 22"
for a link to a map of that flight's progress in the air. Or type in
the tail number you see on an airplane for the full registration form
for that plane.

   • Google is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Type in a VIN (vehicle
identification number, which is etched onto a plate, usually on the
door frame, of every car), like "JH4NA1157MT001832," to find out the
car's year, make and model.

   • For hours of rainy-day entertainment, visit http://labs.google.com.
Here, you'll find links to new, half-finished Google experiments-like
Google Voice, in which you call (650) 623-6706, speak the words you
want to search for and then open your browser to view the results.
Disclaimer: It wasn't working when I tried it. (Ditto a lot of these
experiments.)

   • Poke around the "Services & Tools" link on the Google.com home page
and you'll find some of the better-known lesser-known Google features,
if that makes any sense.

   For example, there's Froogle (product search), News, Groups (Internet
discussion boards), Google Catalogs (hundreds of scanned-in product
catalogs), Images (find graphics and photos from other people's Web
sites), Blogger (publish your own online journal), Google language
translation, Google Answers (pay a couple of bucks to have a
professional researcher find the answers for you) and much more.

   Pretty soon you'll need Google just to search Google!

   Visit David Pogue on the Web at DavidPogue.com.

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Hi everyone on Dist-gen,
I received the following today and thought that it may help you too.
Sorry that I haven't been able to join in with any activities for some time,
I hope that will change some day. I still enjoy seeing all the emails on
dist-gen.
Happy hunting
Louise Calderbank


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Jeffery" <mmjeffery@...>
To: <UK-CENSUS-HELPERS-L@...>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: [UK-CENSUS] Online Scots Dictionary


> Hello Everyone,
>
> Dundee University now has an online Scots dictionary that contains words
> going back 800 years.
>
> "The three year project, led by English lecturer Victor Skretkowicz and
> lexicographer Susan Rennie at the University of Dundee has seen all 12
> volumes of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and all 10 of the
> Scottish National Dictionary transferred to the web to make the first
> online Dictionary of the Scots Language.
>
> For nearly a century, successive editors of the Dictionary of the Older
> Scottish Tongue and The Scottish National Dictionary laboured to create
> a historical and cultural record of Scots, from 1200 to 1976. The twenty
> two volumes contain hundreds of thousands of quotes describing all walks
> of life but now through a process of 'virtual integration' the
> Dictionary of the Scots Language brings their linguistic, historical and
> cultural records together and facilitates rapid searching of their
> contents. It can be accessed for free at www.dsl.ac.uk
> <http://www.dsl.ac.uk>
>
> Enjoy!!
>
> Regards,
> Michelle
>
> --
> Michelle Jeffery
> 1841 Aberdeenshire Coordinator
> 1861-1871 Merchant & Royal Navy Coordinator
> FreeCEN~Bringing the UK Census online free
> http://home.chilitech.net/~mmjeffery/
>

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Could everyone who has update access to the online Calendar please email me
as I have installed our own AFHS calendar rather than using the old one.
The old calendar was not on our own site but was housed on another site that
was becoming overwhelmed with all the people trying to get to it.

A number of people have made comment that it was getting harder and more
frustrating to get to the old calendar. Please use the link on the main AFHS
page to see the new calander

Regards

Gordon Lane
Vice Chair
AFHS Webster
Editor Chinook

Alberta Family Histories Society
http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Family website
http://www.rumbolt.com

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Some of you might be interested in the following:

Charlie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kaufman" <Skaufman@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:00 AM
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS-L] Ft. Wayne Library Newsletter

> Hello!
>
> Addicted to Genealogy? Love libraries and research?  Interested in
> learning about new resources?
>
> The Allen County Public Library Historical Genealogy Department in
Fort
> Wayne, Indiana is pleased to announce their electronic newsletter,
> "Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library."
>
> If the above describes you, sign up for our newsletter and read
about
> one of the major genealogy research libraries in the nation.
>
> Each month, learn about new collections, department special events,
> source highlights, new acquisitions, websites and much more!  Learn
what
> is going in the Genealogy Department of the Allen County Public
Library.
>  We will keep you up to date on our outstanding temporary location,
> where the books are on open stacks, available for your perusal.
> Information about the construction at the old library site, and our
> plans for moving back in 2-3 years will also be included.
>
> To subscribe to this mailing list send a message with ACPL
NEWSLETTER
> SUBSCRIBE in the subject line to: kspears@....  You will
NOT
> receive a confirmation message; you will just begin to receive the
> newsletters, which are scheduled to be published approximately once
a
> month.
>
> Please feel free to pass this notice on to interested individuals
or
> organizations.
>
> >>>>>:<<<<<
>
> Sue Kaufman, Librarian
> Allen County Public Library
> Historical Genealogy Department
> PO Box 2270
> 200 E. Berry
> Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270
> 260-421-1225
> 260-421-1386 (fax)
> www.acpl.lib.in.us

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

The Celtic SIG will be meeting at the AFHS library on 16th Ave. NW at 7
PM on Wednesday, March 31.  We have a guest speaker - Eithne Mulhall, a
very distinguished Irish genealogist who now makes her home in Calgary.

Lois Sparling


http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Hi All:
This will be of interest to anyone with ancestors in the Rocky Mountain
House area.

Geo

>From: "Eric and Jamie Simmons" <ericjami@...>
>To: <chairman@...>
>Subject: Pine Grove RMH
>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:37:25 -0700
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
>
>I have begun photographing the headstones...pictures will be located at
><http://freegenealogycanada.com/rocky_mtn_house_cemetery.htm>http://freegenealo\
gycanada.com/rocky_mtn_house_cemetery.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>***
>http://www.thegallerycoffeehouse.com
><http://www.freegenealogycanada.com>http://www.freegenealogycanada.com
>http://www.tribalpages/tribes/ericjami
><http://www.simmonsgenealogy.com>http://www.simmonsgenealogy.com

George Lake
Chairman, Alberta Family Histories Society
Calgary Canada

email: chairman@...
AFHS Website: www.afhs.ab.ca

my website: www.glake.ca



http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Oh my goodness George - that applies to me! Born and raised for most of my
life in R.M.H. so Pine Grove Cemetery is where family and friends are at
rest and where I have requested my spot when it is time to go to the great
hereafter!

Thanks for forwarding this.

Xenia

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dist-gen@...
[mailto:owner-dist-gen@...]On Behalf Of George Lake
Sent: March 30, 2004 4:52 PM
To: dist-gen@...
Subject: Fwd: Pine Grove RMH


Hi All:
This will be of interest to anyone with ancestors in the Rocky Mountain
House area.

Geo

>From: "Eric and Jamie Simmons" <ericjami@...>
>To: <chairman@...>
>Subject: Pine Grove RMH
>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:37:25 -0700
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
>
>I have begun photographing the headstones...pictures will be located at
><http://freegenealogycanada.com/rocky_mtn_house_cemetery.htm>http://freegen
ealogycanada.com/rocky_mtn_house_cemetery.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>***
>http://www.thegallerycoffeehouse.com
><http://www.freegenealogycanada.com>http://www.freegenealogycanada.com
>http://www.tribalpages/tribes/ericjami
><http://www.simmonsgenealogy.com>http://www.simmonsgenealogy.com

George Lake
Chairman, Alberta Family Histories Society
Calgary Canada

email: chairman@...
AFHS Website: www.afhs.ab.ca

my website: www.glake.ca



http://www.afhs.ab.ca

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

I have had this problem for about  a week now. I used Internet
Explorer to go to the Windows Update page. I have done this a number of
times in the past with no problem. I was trying to download a non-critical
update for Windows  98SE and it gets as far as the Review and Install
Updates after selecting just one. I press the Install Now button and no
download starts. Sometimes the "button" stays pressed for a moment  like it
is going to do something, and then nothing happens.
      I have even tried to download a file to a folder from the catalogue
rather than going through a download and install. Neither works.
      I have checked my firewall settings. They seem fine. Just in case, I
removed IE and Windows Explorer and let Zone Alarm find again.
      Any one have suggestions?

      Brian

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.642 / Virus Database: 410 - Release Date: 3/24/04

Here is a website which might be of interest to some researching in the UK
before 1840.

http://proni.nics.gov.uk/freeholders/intro.asp

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Reunion Users Group, a siglet of the Computer Users Group, a sig of the
Alberta Family Histories Society (see map:
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/images/map.gif) meets the first Tuesday of most
months and will will meet 6 Apr in the AFHS library (712 - 16 Avenue
NW) at 7 p.m.
ar109@...
245 4252


Mary Arthur

Thrift is a great virtue...in an ancestor

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

If you want to find a cemetery, a
bayou, airstrip, little town, this is
the map for you.   It's free.

http://www.topozone.com

This site has every USGS topographic
map, orthophotomap, and aerial
photograph in the entire United States.
Just type a place name in the search box
and go! Use the "View Maps" menu for
more search options.


Marcel Savoie
marcel.j.savoie@...



http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Candice -
It would be a help if you would give your family name. I expect a good
number of the other members have their address books set up under surname.

Larry

Larry & Doreen McCool
Calgary, AB Canada
Our new address is
mccoollh@...
Our website is now at
http://www3.telus.net/public/mccoollh/index.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "candice" <cdupre@...>
To: "danbren" <danbren@...>; "Darryl Adams"
<dadams@...>; "Dayna Christmas" <christma@...>;
<dist-gen@...>; <dist-gen@...>; "Don Draper"
<dddraper@...>; "dyj" <dyj@...>; "E.Rodier"
<cerear@...>; <Edsuzanne@...>; "Eileen Wilson"
<eileenwilson001@...>; <eldiablorico@...>; "eleven"
<eleven11@...>; "Eric" <ericbear@...>; "Esther DeForest"
<edefor@...>; "everett packer" <ypacker@...>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:10 AM
Subject: Email Change


> Please Note my email has been changed to
> Cdupre@...
> Thanks
> Candice
> http://www.afhs.ab.ca


http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Please Note my email has been changed to
Cdupre@...
Thanks
Candice
http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Following is an interesting response to an official query made to our own
Alberta government.

I'm sure others have been wondering about the impact of PIPA legislation on
our work:

---------------------
>The Alberta Personal Information Protection Act does not apply if you are
collecting, using or disclosing personal information for home or family
purposes such as when an individual is compiling and publishing their own
family history for their personal use.
>
>
>Eileen Hendy, Access and Privacy Advisor
>Private Sector Privacy
>Access and Privacy Branch
>Alberta Government Services
>3rd Floor, Commerce Place
>10155 - 102 Street
>Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4L4
>Private Sector Privacy Phone: (780) 644-7472
>Private Sector Privacy Email: pspinfo@... <mailto:pspinfo@...>
>Fax: (780) 427-1120
>Private Sector Privacy Website: http://www.psp.gov.ab.ca
-----------------------

The inquirer has requested privacy regarding his identity.

Now my concern is how they can perceive that "publishing" can be
accomplished while doing the work for one's "personal use".  By definition,
publishing indicates that materials are to be distributed widely - generally
for sale.

In Kinship,
Judith Rempel
judith@...

and

1906@...
1906 Census Transcription Centre
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/census/1906/
Alberta Family Histories Society

queries@...
Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta
http://www.mennonites.ca/mhsa/

Mennonite Genealogy Data Index
http://www.mennonites.ca


http://www.afhs.ab.ca

----- Original Message -----

From: Carol Lylyk

To: dist-gen

Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:34 AM

Subject: Canadian Soldiers in the Boer War

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020156_e.html

 

The National Archives/National Library have an online site to check Canadian soldiers who fought in the Boer War 1899-1902.  It appears that some of the attestation papers are viewable online as well.

 

Carol Lylyk

Thanks for the link Carol. Looked on the Glenbow web site for some names of
Calgary area people who went to the Boer War. E. McNair was one of the names
with images on the web site.

Uncle Joe went from England to the Boer War and wrote his memoirs as part of
a family history booklet in 1967. He went to India for a few years and then
joined the family who had moved to Ontario in 1905. The miltary group lined
the funeral route in Hyde park when Queen Victoria died in January. Rene
helped me find Uncle Joe in the army camp west of London in the 1901
census. -- Elizabeth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Lylyk"
> http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020156_e.html
>
> The National Archives/National Library have an online site to check
Canadian soldiers who fought in the Boer War 1899-1902.  It appears that
some of the attestation papers are viewable online as well.



http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Latest additions to Paper of Record,

Afro-American -Baltimore, MD - 1926 - 1929
Renfrew Mercury - Renfrew, ON - 1895 - 1899
Woodstock Weekly Sentinel-Review - Woodstock, ON - 1878 - 1882

Remember to use the following link, or the link on the website to give the
AFHS the credit for the referral

http://www.paperofrecord.com/Images/Referral/por_144.gif


Regards

Gordon Lane
Vice Chair
AFHS Webster
Editor Chinook

Alberta Family Histories Society
http://www.afhs.ab.ca

Family website
http://www.rumbolt.com

http://www.afhs.ab.ca

What is the convention/tradition/custom for which side in a double plot the
male is buried, and which side the female is buried?





http://www.afhs.ab.ca

lynda1alderman@... wrote:

>What is the convention/tradition/custom for which side in a double plot the
>male is buried, and which side the female is buried?
>
>
>
>Lynda.
>

In my burial plot mywife is buried in the right hand plot and I will be
buried in the left hand plot. I do not know if this is
  traditionalBob McNarry. I let the firm who made the plaque make that
decision. I hope this helps.

>
>http://www.afhs.ab.ca
>
>
>


http://www.afhs.ab.ca

The custom today for a double plot is not to bury side by side but to bury
one above the other. Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: <lynda1alderman@...>
To: "dist-gen" <dist-gen@...>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:43 AM
Subject: Burials


> What is the convention/tradition/custom for which side in a double plot
the
> male is buried, and which side the female is buried?
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.afhs.ab.ca
>


http://www.afhs.ab.ca

I know of one couple that are buried on the side that they slept in their
double bed. The man, who died last, said that as that had been good for so
many years why change it?

----- Original Message -----
From: <lynda1alderman@...>
To: "dist-gen" <dist-gen@...>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:43 AM
Subject: Burials


> What is the convention/tradition/custom for which side in a double plot
the
> male is buried, and which side the female is buried?
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.afhs.ab.ca
>


http://www.afhs.ab.ca

I have looked at pictures of headstones taken of various of my ancestors
and all have the husband on the left and the wife on the right (when you are
facing the headstone).  These pictures were taken at three Edmonton
cemeteries and one rural one.  In another instance at a rural cemetery, the
wife was on the left and husband on the right.  At Edenbrooke here in
Calgary if you pre-order your marker, they put husband on the left and wife
on the right. Does this help?


----- Original Message -----
From: <lynda1alderman@...>
To: "dist-gen" <dist-gen@...>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:43 AM
Subject: Burials


> What is the convention/tradition/custom for which side in a double plot
the
> male is buried, and which side the female is buried?
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.afhs.ab.ca
>


http://www.afhs.ab.ca