September 21, 2024
It's National British Home Child Day on September 28! Here's a link to an interesting historical article:
https://chameleonfire1.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/canada-now-has-a-national-british-home-child-day/
| September 26, 2024 |
KFHS Regular Meeting at Heritage House, 6:30 p.m. social time, 7:00 p.m. meeting. Our theme for the 2024-2025 year is Around the World with the Kamloops Family History Society |
| October 1, 2024 |
KFHS Management Meeting via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. social time, 7:00 p.m. meeting (Agenda TBA)
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October 7, 2024
Curt Witcher
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Kelowna & District Genealogical Society presentation via Zoom: Making the Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana Your Research Assistant by Curt Witcher, 6:00 p.m.
The presentation will cover how to explore the international holdings and datafiles of the Genealogy Center both to plan a research trip to Fort Wayne and, especially, to use the Genealogy Center remotely.
Curt Witcher is the Director of Special Collections at the Allen County Public Library, managing the widely acclaimed Genealogy Center as well as the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research. He is a former president of both the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society, and the founding president of the Indiana Genealogical Society. Curt currently serves on the Indiana State Historical Records Advisory Board and on the executive committee of the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana’s Board of Directors. He also serves on the Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society board of directors as well as an advisor for the African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne. Free to our KFHS members when they register with the KFHS Code.
Price: KDGS members Free;* non-members $10; REGISTRATION REQUIRED (https://kdgs.ca/2024/october-2024-general-meeting/)
* Join now for $40 and be able to attend all our monthly meetings for free plus many other benefits!
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November 4, 2024
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Kelowna & District Genealogical Society presentation via Zoom:
The Italians in World War II Canadian Internment Camps
Description to follow
Date: Monday, November 4, 2024, 7:00pm
Presenter: Gord Hotchkiss
Location: via Zoom
Price: KDGS members Free; non-members $10; REGISTRATION REQUIRED (Will be available October 8th) Free to our KFHS Members
Bite-size: Using Libby, presenter KDGS member, Beverley Brooks
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May 2025
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Pleasant Street Cemetery - 125th Anniversary
The Sagebrush Neighbourhood Association Society is planning a celebration in May 2025 for the 125th Anniversary of the Pleasant Street Cemetery. There is a planning committee meeting on October 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the basement of the St. Andrews Church on 6th Avenue, to which our KFHS members are invited. They would like to thank our Society for all the work they have done at the Cemetery and plan what might be done for the Anniversary celebration. We hope that some of our members would like to attend. |
As some of you may know, Sheila Park, one of our founding members has passed away. Our condolences go out to all her family and friends. You will find the obituary here: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/kamloops-bc/sheila-park-11946596
Reminder to check out the latest BCGS E-Journal posted on our website, including other recently uploaded Exchange Journals: Exchange Journals - Kamloops Family History Society (kfhs.org)
We'd like to share the following poem, found and submitted by our member Karen Collins, which we thought you would find apropos. Thank you, Karen!
They call us "The Elders"
We were born in the 40s-50s-60s.
We grew up in the 50s-60s-70s.
We studied in the 60s-70s-80s.
We dated together in the 70s-80s-90s.
We got married and discovered the world in the 70s-80s-90s.
We ventured into the 80s-90s.
We settled into the 2000s.
We grew wiser in 2010.
And we’re firmly beyond 2020.
Seems like we lived in eight different decades...
TWO different centuries...
TWO millennials apart...
We've gone from phone with a long-distance caller operator to video calling anywhere in the world.
We've gone from slides to YouTube, vinyl records to online music, handwritten letters to email and WhatsApp.
From live gaming radio, to white TV and black to color TV and then to 3D HD TV.
Went to the video store and now watching Netflix.
We met the first computers, punched cards, disks and now we have gigabytes and megabytes on our smartphones.
We wore shorts all childhood and then pants, Oxford, rockets, full shells and blue jeans.
We dodged childhood paralysis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, swine flu and now COVID-19.
We used to ride skates, tricycles, bicycles, mopeds, petrol or diesel cars and now we drive hybrids or electric.
Yes, we have been through a lot, but what a life we have had!.
They could describe us as "specimens," people born in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and digital adulthood.
We be like "I have seen it all"!
Our generation has literally lived and witnessed more than anyone else in every dimension of life.
It is our generation that has literally adapted to "CHANGE". "
All members of a very special generation, which will be UNIQUE!
The old with the young in it.
(Author Unknown) |
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