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26 Jul 2003
AFHS Membership
Membership Benefits - Membership
Fees - Membership Application
Membership Lists
To Login use your Last Name in capital letters e.g LANE and the password is your
Membership Number.
If your Last Name does not work try your Last Name and Initial of your First Name e.g. LANEG
Genealogy e-list (dist-gen) - Queries
and Research
Email Contacts - Board
Members - By-laws - Member
Commercial Services
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.
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