AFHS Membership
712 - 16 Avenue NW
Calgary, AB T2M 0J8
(403) 214-1447 (voice mail)
The AFHS was founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization with the purpose
of encouraging and promoting an interest in family history research in
Calgary and district.
Membership Benefits
- 10 regular meetings each year with
presentations to help learn about or carry out your family history research
- 10 beginner sessions each year to
augment the main presentations; equally popular with beginners and seniors
alike
- 10 Breeze newsletters per year ... keep members informed of
upcoming local and other events across the Alberta
- 4 issues of Chinook per
year; news items and articles of interest to family historians
- Special Interest Groups to help researchers
in specific areas whether your special interest is computers, or in
locales such as England, Ireland, Maritimes, Scotland, or more broadly
focussed on Metis
- Special events such as our FamilyRoots
Seminar, and other periodic one-day seminars with visiting experts
- A free, lending library of books, reference
material and an invaluable collection of genealogical journals from
across Canada and abroad
- Free publication of specific research queries in Chinook
- Free publication of your surname
interests in Chinook and also on the AFHS webpage
- Permission to use AFHS Member graphic on your website. Please save
it to your hard drive/server and don't simply link back to our copy.
This will save stress on our server. Thanks.
- Opportunities to get involved in Society activities, to share and
learn
- Opportunities to meet other local members with the same research interests
- Opportunities to gain from the research of others and also share information
on one's own research
- Opportunities to gain new friends and have some darn good fun
Don't miss any benefits or opportunities -- join today!
Membership fees
- $40 - Individual
- $55 - Family
- $35 - Senior (65+ individual)
- $45 - Senior (65+ headed-family)
- $50 - Institutional
USA members: Please pay in $US. Memberships due on September 1st each
year.
Queries and Research
Three options now exist to communicate research interests with Calgary
family historians.
- You may subscribe to the free Calgary family history mailing
list.
- The Society does not conduct extended or exploratory research but
the names of specifically qualified genealogical researchers upon request.
See also Members' Services for a list
- Requests for Research Assistance
may be made to our volunteers, generally for a small fee.
- Specific queries for publication in the Chinook can
be sent to
Email Contacts
Order Publications:
Place notices in the Breeze (newsletter):
Publish Queries in Chinook:
Subscribe to our Calgary Genealogy listserv:
Membership Queries
See Contacts for a full listing of e-mail
contacts to our board members, key volunteers, and Special Interest Groups
(SIGS) that focus on specific geographic or technical areas.
If you'd like to provide a graphic link to our site - we'd be most pleased.
Feel free to use this one. Please save it to your hard drive/server and
don't simply link back to our copy. This will save stress on our server.
Need help with this - just contact the
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