2025 Meetings

January 7th 2025

Linda Moorcrot talked about using the BC Archives

Julia Schoennagel gave a very poignant talk on finding unknown and lost immediate family and other relatives.

Tim Rieck gave a very detailed talk on using small DNA numbers to extend your family tree by building "quick and dirty" trees from the scant bits of information he finds until he has a valuable result  

February 4th, 2025

Candy-Lea Chickite (who presented before on her First Nations heritage and a murder - the Seabird a Tale of intrigue on the Pacific Coast) presented an interesting discovery about her seafaring ancestor which uses AI in the research.  A Q & A followed.

March 4th, 2025

John Hodges led the group in Breaking down Brick Walls, always a fascinating exercise.  Drawing on the expertise of John and other club members we answered questions for Gayle, Julia and others. 

April 1st, 2025

Teresa Eckford from Sechelt Public Library gave us all a lesson on citing sources to ensure that our information is recorded correctly for other genealogists. Teresa writes regularly in magazines on genealogy and has an excellent blog-  https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/putting-the-history-in-family-history/

May 6th, 2025

Members were asked to come prepared to share a discovery that they made on either Newspapers.com or FindMyPast and explain how they got there.

June 10th, 2025

Sandi led the meeting with "Members' Moments" where participants detailed their latest research into one of their brickwalls.

September 16th, 2025

2025 AGM followed by members reviewing their achievements over the past year and their hopes and aspirations for the coming year.

October 7th, 2025

Members brought their own brickwall problems to the meeting and the participating members helped to solve them (with good success)

November 4th, 2025

Military History - Stories from our members on their ancestors' military service