All Programs require pre-registration and are held at the Cloverdale Library unless otherwise noted. To register, please drop in to the branch at 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, BC (V3S 4G9), call 604-598-7328, or email genealogy@surrey.ca
Programs: Winter/Spring 2010
Ongoing Programs: Winter/Spring 2010
City of Surrey Museum and Archives Programs
Heritage Programs at the
Surrey Museum, our "kitty corner" neighbours
Finding Your Female Ancestors: Paper Trails and DNA
with Diane Rogers and Laurie J.Cooke
Diane Rogers, President of the British Columbia Genealogy Society and Secretary of the Women's History Network of BC, is a well experienced sleuth when it comes to tracking down elusive female ancestors. Laurie J.Cooke, Cloverdale Genealogy Librarian, is quite obsessed with DNA for Genealogy – especially if it can help establish maternal lineage without the advantage of surnames. Join us and learn how to locate and honour your own female ancestors with some excellent research tips and the latest on using DNA for maternal lines.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Charge: $10:00
Pre-registration is required. To register, please drop in to the branch at 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, BC (V3S 4G9), call 604-598-7328, or email genealogy@surrey.ca
Ukrainian Roots
with Vera Shpolyansky
During the Surrey Museum's Ukrainian Cultural Afternoon this Spring, Cloverdale Genealogy will cover family history by offering a Ukrainian Roots program. Our speaker is a "forensic genealogist" with a business that specializes in locating living descendants in Eastern European countries. She will deliver a lecture for both beginners on their "genealogical journey" to Ukraine, and those who have done some research and would like to hear about newest information available on line.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 12:30 am – 2:00pm noon at the Surrey Museum.
Charge: $10.00
Pre-registration is required. To register, please drop in to the branch at 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, BC (V3S 4G9), call 604-598-7328, or email genealogy@surrey.ca
Fast and Easy Digital Collages Using Picasa
with Laurie J.Cooke
Picasa is a free "software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos" - and so much more. This program can pull together an excellent family history collage in no time. You can let Picasa automate the process, or arrange things as you see fit. Look at some great examples and learn the "how tos" in this session.
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 10:30 - 11:30
Charge: $10.00
Pre-registration is required. To register, please drop in to the branch at 5642 – 176A Street, Surrey, BC (V3S 4G9), call 604-598-7328, or email genealogy@surrey.ca
Ongoing Programs
First Steps on the Ancestral Trail
Interested in your family history but don't know where to start?
Take your First Steps on the Ancestral Trail
with Brenda Smith
What tools do we need? Where do we look? Are we on the right path? Attend this session to explore the methodology needed to launch a family history research project. Participants receive a starter workbook and other materials to guide their first steps on this popular self-development path.
Saturday, January 9, 2010, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Charge: $10.00
Suggestion: double header - attend our orientation to the collection at 10:00am just before the Trails program, and make a great start to your research!
Please pre-register by calling 604-598-7328, emailing genealogy@surrey.ca
Payment required upon registration.
Start Searching Your Family History - a Beginners' Workshop in 5 Lessons
with Brenda Smith
This series of five 3-hour classes, developed by writer and researcher Brenda Smith, addresses each beginning family history researcher's need for guidance in embarking on a very personal journey. Working with their own materials, and supporting each other, learners will discover their particular motives and set goals for their research, organize and evaluate their data, and plan the first stage of their individual programs. Participants must be able to commit to attending all five sessions.
Winter 2010: Saturdays, 10:00am - 1:00pm: January 23, February 6 and 20, March 6 and 27
At the Cloverdale Library, 5642-176A Street, Surrey
Charge $100 for series
Please pre-register by calling 604-598-7328, or emailing genealogy@surrey.ca
Payment required upon registration.
Lesson 1: Probe the Past - From the Known to the Unknown
Discover your personal motivation for compiling a family history, formulate goals for research, and draft a family tree diagram.
Lesson 2: Organize - The Second Prime Directive
Explore organizational approaches, basic data collection and storage techniques, organize your workbook, and create a family group sheet.
Lesson 3: Can You Prove That? Verify Your Findings
Process documents, discuss evidence and apply standards of proof.
Lesson 4: Right Forest, Wrong Tree: Interpret Your Findings
Build context for your research, & develop techniques for critical analysis of family history data.
Lesson 5: Pack Your Parachute: The Research Plan
Renew your research goals and prepare a plan for continuing research.
Start Writing Your Family History - a Communications Workshop in 5 Lessons
This series also consists of five 3-hour classes, and addresses the researcher's need to report and publish findings. Working with their own materials, and supporting each other, learners discover how to move from the gathering of information to creating a publishable product. Participants must be able to commit to attending all five sessions.
Prerequisite: Start Searching Your Family History or approval from the instructor.
Winter 2010: Saturdays, 1:30pm - 4:30pm: January 23, February 6 and 20, March 6 and 27
At the Cloverdale Library, 5642-176A Street, Surrey
Instructor: Brenda Smith
Charge $100 for series
Please pre-register by calling 604-598-7328, or emailing genealogy@surrey.ca
Payment required upon registration.
Lesson 1: The Research Cycle
Examine the basics of writing practice including: audience identification, choosing a genre, identifying the topic. Introduce course elements: research, organize, write, edit, publish. Also: get-acquainted activities and cooperative evaluation training.
Lesson 2: Organize To Write
Explore organizational approaches, citation, and apply standards of proof. Practice cooperative evaluation techniques.
Lesson 3: Get it on Paper
Move from research to writing mode. Practice creating documents and discussing evidence.
Lesson 4: Edit
Decide what to use, what to eliminate, what to rewrite, what to save for next time.
Lesson 5: Publish
Discuss the publishing process in preparation for larger projects: including print and multimedia.
Cloverdale Library Genealogical Collection Orientations
The Cloverdale Branch of Surrey Public Library has one of the most extensive collections of Canadian genealogical materials in Western Canada. The library has a wide variety of books and microfilms covering records from the Canadian provinces and territories. To help you become familiar with the collection, the Cloverdale library offers orientations, usually held on the first Saturday of every month, 10 am - 11 am, or occasionally, the next Saturday after a long weekend.
Next session: Saturday February 6, 2010
Pre-registration recommended. If you would like more information, call us at
604-598-7328.