Access to volunteers (French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual) on site and virtually by email, with extensive experience and knowledge able to help French-speaking and non-French-speaking people in their research
Access to the SGNO's research center, The Salon Normand-Lefaivre, located in the Cité francophone in Edmonton, with the following resources at your disposal:
Over 2,000 books in our library
Databases that can be consulted free of charge
Ancestry.ca and Ancestry.com
Family Search
BMS 2000
Genealogy Quebec (Le Lafrance)
Geneanet
MesAïeux.com
PRDH-IGD
Receive by email (or by mail if you don't have an email) a copy of our newsletter Sources and Resources, published 3 times a year
Participate in our talks and conferences for free
Access to the Members section (and the Public section) of the SGNO website which contains the following resources:
Links that allow you to do genealogical research remotely from your computer by accessing the websites of Genealogy Quebec and the PRDH-IGD for free
More than 24,000 death notices, 1,050 Memorial cards, and 6,500 obituaries with the vast majority of which are for Albertans or people who have lived in Alberta
More than 275 folders that contain genealogical research results, with each folder dedicated to a search for a family name or specific ancestor
More than 1,500 links to digitized books are in our database. These books can be downloaded from your computer. For example genealogical dictionaries, family books, community books, history and heritage books, directories, and other research tools
Video recordings of various SGNO activities and events, such as webinars, can be downloaded and viewed from your computer (both in english and in french)
Online research tools available free of charge (e.g. Civil status registers of Quebec at the BAnQ, Censuses, Origin File, Francogene, Our Origins and many others)
Scanned copies of our bilingual Sources and Resources newsletter published since 2017
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