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AFHS Digital Library
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Volume I - Volume II - Volume III - Volume IV - Volume V Volume I: A Collection of Cemetery Records from (Southern) Alberta
The Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) kicked off its Digital Library collection in Fall, 2001 with A Collection of Cemetery Records from (Southern) Alberta. The CD contains 68,000 records from nearly 70 Cemeteries in Southern Alberta (listed below), 11,000 records from the Calgary Crematorium, and 2,000 records from the Chevra Kadusha (Jewish) Society. Records can be browsed for a particular surname within a particular cemetery or across all cemeteries. Lookup indexes for names, birth and death dates only can be located from our Cemeteries homepage.
Each individual record will contain:
Additional Cemetery Information
Price: $30.00 Volume II: The Garden Road Cemeteries
The Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) continues its Digital Library collection with A Collection of Cemetery Records from The Garden Road Cemeteries. It features a collection of 24,500 records from two Cemeteries on Garden Road that straddle the eastern boundary of the Calgary's City Limits: MD of Rockyview Garden of Peace and Mountain View Cemetery. Price: $20.00 Volume III: Cochrane Cemeteries and More
The Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) continues its Digital Library collection with Cochrane Cemeteries and More. The CD has the Cemetery transcriptions, some burial records and photos (when available) from:
Price: $20.00 Volume IV: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary Sections A-F
The Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) continues its Digital Library collection with the first in a series of CD’s from Queen's Park, Calgary. Sections A-F contain over 9,300 entries; each entry includes monument transcriptions, burial records and photographs (where available). These 6 sections contain some of the earliest burials in the cemetery. Volunteers worked on gathering and editing this information in 2003 and 2004. Section E, which contains the Jewish section of the Cemetery, will have a link included to the data obtained from the Chevra Kadusha Burial Society of Calgary. Price: $25.00 Volume V: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary Section P and other Military Records
The Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) continues its Digital Library collection with the second in the series from Queen's Park, Calgary. Sections P and PC are the military sections in Queen’s Park. The earliest burials in these sections date from January 1970 when the military section of Burnsland Cemetery became full. Section P has 3600 burials in full burial lots and Columbariums and Section PC has its almost 1400 burials in cremation lots. Most of the recording was done in the fall of 2003. Photos of the tombstones were taken in the fall of 2003 and the early summer of 2004 with retakes up to October 2004. Additional burial data from the Cemetery office was retrieved and included in the database before the final editing in the fall of 2004. It also contains stray military markers from Sections A-L. Other military information includes a list of names from “The Airman Memorial” in downtown Calgary and various Military Websites. We were pleased to be able to produce this CD in 2005, the Year of the Veteran. Price: $25.00 Volume VI: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary Sections G-J
This is the third in a series by the Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) of CDs for Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Sections G-J contain the transcriptions, burial records and photos (where available) for some 12,700 burials. Sections G and J contain burials from 1946 to 2005. Work on Section H-J was completed in the spring of 2005 and so contains only burial records up to that time. Section G, however, took us longer and was not completed until the late fall of 2005.
Price: $25.00 Volume VII: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary Sections K-L
This is the fourth in a series by the Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) of CDs for Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Sections K-L contain the transcriptions, burial records and photos (where available) for some 13,300 burials. Sections K-L contain burials from 1955 to the present day. Work on Section K-L was completed in the fall of 2005 and so contains only burial records for that time. Included is the University of Calgary burial ground in Section L where those that contributed to Medical Education and Research are buried. Price: $25.00 Volume VIII: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary Sections M-O
This is the fifth in the series of CDs by the Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) of CDs for Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Sections M-O contain the monument inscriptions, burial records and photographs for some 10,450 burials. Sections M-O contain burials from 1969 to the present day. Work on Sections M-O was completed in the fall of 2005 and so this CD contains burial records up to that time. Storybook Garden is a new baby and child section with burials beginning in the summer of 2004 and we recorded burials up to the fall of 2006.
Price: $25.00 Volume IX: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary Sections R, RC, V, W and the Mausoleum
This is the sixth in a series of CDs by the Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) of CDs for Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Sections R, RC, V, W and the Mausoleum contain the monument inscriptions, burial records and photographs for some 7,600 burials. These sections contain burials from 1971 to the present day. Work on Sections R, RC, V, W and the Mausoleum was completed in the Fall of 2006. Photographs were not taken in the Mausoleum as this was unfeasible due to the lighting.
Price: $25.00 Volume X: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary Sections S, T, and X
The Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) presents the seventh and final in a series of CDs for Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary. Sections S, T & X contain the monument inscriptions, burial records and photographs (when available) for some 6,100 burials. These sections contain burials from 1983 to the present day. Work on Sections S, T, and X was completed in the Spring of 2007. Since this is the final CD for Queen’s Park Cemetery we have included a Master Index of the whole Cemetery.
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