You are invited to the next meeting of the Fairbanks Genealogical Society. October 23, 6pm Blanchard Family Funeral Home, 611 Noble St, Fairbanks, Alaska. The program is “Basic DNA for Genealogy” by Amy Stratman Learn the very basics of using your DNA to discover who you are and your family’s history, even if it is…
Join us for the 4th annual Genealogy Fair! FREE! Learn about genealogy, making your family tree, and more. This Fair will be held inside the Noel Wein Library, Fairbanks, Alaska. Come anytime between 11am to 4pm. We’ll have tables with information and advice on starting your family tree, online research, DNA, Daughter’s of the American…
Sept 25, 6pm, at the Blanchard Family Funeral Home, 611 Noble St, Fairbanks, Alaska. For this meeting, we will discuss new research insights learned from working on the Cleary Family for the library display. Light refreshments will be served. The Genealogy Fair coming Oct 6 will be discussed and planned. More information is forthcoming.
Keith Blanchard of the Blanchard Family Funeral Home will discuss Funeral Home and Cemetery Records & Research. We will learn what can be found in records for funeral homes, and cemeteries; the right questions to ask in locating this type of information; and an understanding of some of the terminology associated with these types of records….
Updated Nov 23: The originally intended program for November was “Funeral Home records” by Keith Blanchard, but was changed to “Archives for Regular People (and how to access them)” by Joan Skilbred. Blanchard Family Funeral Home 611 Noble St Fairbanks, Alaska 6pm – 8pm
The next meeting of the FGS will be held on Tuesday Oct 24, 6pm at the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame, 1st Ave, Fairbanks. “Echo of a Secret Family” will be presented by Michael Gibson. Mike will share his story of how he was able to find and connect records that led to learning about…
