In honour of the 100th anniversary of the battle for Vimy Ridge, UM Archives will host “Voices From Vimy: Manitobans on the Ridge” from April 11 – June 30. The display features letters, postcards and other records of Manitobans who fought on the Ridge. The …
“Identifying WW1 Uniforms from Old Photographs” by Dave M. Olinyk. Wednesday, April 19, 7:00 pm. Thomson Funeral Home, 669 Broadway Ave., Winnipeg. You’ve just opened a box full of your grandparents’ old photographs and some of them are of soldiers wearing odd uniforms. Who are …
Open House at Archives of Manitoba to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of The Battle of Vimy Ridge, Wednesday, April 12 from 1:00-4:00 pm and 6:00-9:00 pm, 200 Vaughan St., Winnipeg. Please note that there will be disruptions to public service on April 12 due to …
Southwest Branch has been working hard on designing their new website and the results are fantastic. Take a look at http://www.swmanitobagenealogy.ca/
“Celebrating our Roots” and 28th Annual Heritage Dinner Saturday, April 22, 2017 Knox United Church, 18th & Victoria Ave, Brandon MB Program description and registration form available below Registration WKSP Dinner 2017 – email
MGS has launched a new initiative – gift certificates that can be used for MGS memberships, branch memberships and/or research services. What a great gift to give the genealogist in your family or a friend. Starting April 1 you can purchase a gift certificate in …
The following books are available free of charge from the MGS Library. TITLE AUTHOR DATE Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland v. Ben Bloxham 1979 The Book of Irish Families Great and Small O’Laughlin 1992 Genealogy to Go! (War of …
“The Ancestor Hunt” website has free Newspaper Research Links for all Canadian provinces and territories, and all USA states. Go to this link for this great newspaper resource. http://www.theancestorhunt.com/newspaper-research-links.html
This excellent website is devoted to descendants of early explorers, fur traders and settlers who first inhabited the great Northwest Territory or Rupert’s Land, and more particularly the region of the Red River of the North. Your host, Gary Still, was born in 1939 in …
St. David is the patron saint of Wales, and people of Welsh ancestry celebrate their ancestral country and culture on his day, March 1st. The MGS Library has a number of books relating to Welsh ancestry and the Welsh in Canada: “In Search of the …