QUERIES AND RESEARCH
We do not, at this time post queries, on this web page. However, if you would like to submit a query to our Newsletter, you may do so by contacting our editor. Our Saamis Seeker newsletter is published three times a year, and comes to each member with their paid membership. If you are not a member, but wish to post a query in our Saamis Seeker, at a cost of $2.50 per query (maximum 50 words), you will receive the issue in which your query appears. If you wish your query to appear in more than one Saamis Seeker, you will be charged $2.50 per query for each issue you wish the query to appear, and will receive a copy of each issue in which your query appears.
We are working to complete our obituary index, but at this time can only offer phase one on-line. If you find a family member in our index, and wish to receive a copy of the the obituary, please send $5.00 per obituary along with the details from the index. If you wish more than one copy of particular obituary, please include $0.50 for each additional copy. If you wish to receive more than one obituary, the charge will be $5.00 per obituary.
Our library has many other resources for researching families for our area. Our fees are charged per resource. A search of Census for our area will be charged at $5.00 per family, per census year. A search of Area History publications will be charged at $5.00 per publication, and a search of Henderson directory, or Farm & Ranch directory will be charged at $5.00 per directory entry. Homestead records for our area are also charged at $5.00 per homestead family.
If you wish to have our members do a search of our resources, please send a SASE (Self-Addressed-Stamped-Envelope) along with your request of resources you wish to have our members research, full name of family, and money order covering the cost of your request to: Research, Medicine Hat Branch AGS, P.O. Box 971, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 7G8.
A NOTE REGARDING THE CANADIAN GENEALOGICAL PROJECTS REGISTRY
If you are seeking information about Canadian data sources, you should first consult the Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry where you can immediately narrow your search by selecting the PROVINCE of interest, then the EVENT of interest (e.g. death, birth, census), and then SOURCE TYPE (e.g. civil record, church record, newspaper account). The last step is to search the resources for the specific community of interest. This is the largest finding aid of its kind in Canada, with over 9,000 links to genealogical data.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society's Genealogy Technology Excellence gave it's first-ever award to the Alberta Family Histories Society. Specifically, the award recognized the innovation in content and navigational design of the Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry portion of the AFHS website. Two members of AFHS (Janet Morgan, who conceptualized the CGPR and Judith Rempel who developed it) accepted the award on behalf of AFHS at GenTech 2000 Conference in San Diego, California.)
(The NEHGS is the oldest genealogical society in North America!)
Last Revision: March 11, 2008