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VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
The Ireland SIG welcomes all members who are researching their family history in the Ireland.
SIG Leader: Kathie Ross
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
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The Scottish SIG welcomes all members who are researching their family history in Scotland.
SIG Leader: Heather Shave
SIG Assist: Pat Rosson
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - noon to 4pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
This event at the historic Bay Street Armoury (BSA) will include visits to the museums of the 5th (British Columbia) Field Artillery Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery and the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) followed by presentations by the museum archivists on the archives and collections managed by each museum. This will include time for questions and discussion. This tour ends about noon.
An optional lunch activity at the Trafalgar/Pro Patria Legion 292‘s no-host restaurant and bar is also available to registrants. Approx. time noon to 2:00pm. Registration required.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
The England SIG welcomes all members who are researching their family history in England.
SIG Leader: Heather Shave
SIG Assist: Gerry Poulton
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Members Update scheduled to be emailed
American Prohibition of the 1920s helped to create a booming industry in the illegal alcohol trade in Canada, particularly in communities like Victoria which were ideally located to support effective transportation of liquor over the hard-to-police maritime border into the United States. Join Kate Humble for a dynamic journey into the lucrative and often dangerous world of rumrunning.
This in-person event will also be available via Zoom.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre CLOSED due to Seminar
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Garden Chapel, Royal Oak Burial Park
Give your family history research a boost! Join celebrated genealogist and award winning historian and journalist, Dave Obee, for a half day event filled with genealogy research gems, tips and anecdotes as only Dave can deliver. This seminar includes three main sessions with short breaks between sessions: A Fresh light on Old Newspapers; Canadiana‘s Genealogical Treasures; The Road Ahead - A Genealogical Pot-Pourri. The venue, specifically chosen for this in-person only event, is the historic Garden Chapel, located at the Royal Oak Burial Park, Victoria, B.C.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Learning and Research Centre
Learn, share, and contribute your experiences with DNA testing and genealogy research. Learn more about your options if you haven‘t tested your DNA yet.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
The goals of this SIG are to introduce and share the fun of doing family history, and to encourage and show members how to do it themselves. Answer questions.
Geared to new members just starting out, and any active members who would like to brush up on their skills.
In-person only at the VGS Centre.
The focus will be on researching items that have been donated to the VGS. Learn to identify clues by careful observation and search for answers in the many sources we have available. The aim is to return found items to their families whenever possible.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
The Ontario SIG welcomes all members who are researching their family history in Ontario, Canada.
SIG Coordinator: Gerry Poulton
Free to active VGS members. Members must join this and other Special Interest Groups to receive emails from SIG volunteers containing SIG meeting details.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
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Countries investigated by this SIG include Romania, Belarus, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, and Herzegovina.
In-person only at the VGS Centre.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - noon to 4pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
Four information-packed sessions by renowned speakers: 1. Sorting YourDNA Puzzle: Making Sense of your Family Connections, by Diana Elder; 2. Using Multiple Autosomal DNA Test Takers to Solve Distant Research Questions, by Nicole Dyer; 3. Lessons that Genetic Genealogists can learn from Investigate Genetic Genealogy; by Bonnie Bossert; 4. Big Improvements in YDNA and mitochondrial DNA from FamilyTreeDNA, by Katy Rowe-Schurwanz
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Members Update scheduled to be emailed
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - noon to 4pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
(Details provided below in each activity)
PRESENTED BY: Joanne Barnard.
This session will give you the resources to start researching your Swedish ancestry, even if you don’t speak the language. Some historical background will provide the framework for understanding naming practices, record-keeping and emigration patterns and an analysis of the various online sources (free and paid) will give you a choice of tools for finding your family’s records.
You can attend in person OR via Zoom.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.
VGS Centre Open - Noon to 3pm
For directions and more details about our VGS Centre, please visit our Location page in the About Us menu.