Meeting dates and other special events for both Nanaimo Family History Society and other family history societies are included in this calendar.  Our meetings are normally held on the third Monday of each month (except July and August).

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Writer’s Group, Helen Webster

Editing is not easy…as writers we have to analyze, evaluate, and create new versions of our work in order to improve those first (and second and third!!) drafts. But, editing can be fun and together we’ll keep working on specific skills and strategies that will help us all become better writers.   By Zoom

An In-depth Look at your DNA Matches, Susan Bates

Join Susan as she covers using Ancestry’s “Thru-Lines” to identify unknown matches, all about the risks, benefits and how-tos of copying your raw data over to GEDmatch and My Heritage.   By Zoom

Writer’s Group, Helen Webster

Editing is not easy…as writers we have to analyze, evaluate, and create new versions of our work in order to improve those first (and second and third!!) drafts. But, editing can be fun and together we’ll keep working on specific skills and strategies that will help us all become better writers.   By Zoom  

NFHS General Meeting

Dave Obee of Victoria, BC,  – will speak on “Genealogy by Google.”   Google is an invaluable tool for  genealogists.  It pays to know some tricks, including effective filtering and search strategies.  Don’t forget Google Books, Google Maps, Google Images and the historic newspaper collection.  You will quickly discover that a simple search simply scratches the […]

NFHS General Meeting

Bronwyn Frazer of Nanaimo, BC The first step in the Genealogical Proof Standard is a thorough and reasonably exhaustive search for sources.  But what does this mean?  How much is exhaustive or reasonable?  Join Bronwyn as she traces her research journey uncovering how her Stone family turned into Balls and back into Stone again over […]

Writer’s Group, Helen Webster

There are strategies to assist you in the editing process, ranging from simple to complex. Over the next months we will review those we already know, learn new skills, and practice applying them all to our work. In the process, we will help each other improve our writing. Register in advance for this meeting.