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'''Everyone is welcome to use our services.'''<br> | '''Everyone is welcome to use our services.'''<br> | ||
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=== Centre Contacts and Hours === | === Centre Contacts and Hours === | ||
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#1815 Tzouhalem Road (corner of Donnay Drive), Duncan, BC, Canada | #1815 Tzouhalem Road (corner of Donnay Drive), Duncan, BC, Canada | ||
#Located inside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | |||
#Enter through the doors closest to Donnay Drive, and the Family History Centre is immediately on your right.''<br>'' | #Enter through the doors closest to Donnay Drive, and the Family History Centre is immediately on your right.''<br>'' | ||
#''(Link to map using ''[http://maps.google.com Google]'' or other map sites)'' | #''(Link to map using ''[http://maps.google.com Google]'' or other map sites)'' | ||
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The Cowichan Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library offers free use of public computers and the Internet for one hour daily. Or one hour of wi-fi access with your own laptop. | The Cowichan Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library offers free use of public computers and the Internet for one hour daily. Or one hour of wi-fi access with your own laptop. | ||
They also have a subscription to Ancestry. You may need staff assistance to find it the first time. | They also have a subscription to Ancestry. You may need staff assistance to find it the first time. | ||
If you wish to order microfilms from Library and Archives Canada - or any other institution that lends to libraries - the Cowichan Branch can order them on your behalf and you can view them on our readers. | |||
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Check with other branches of VIRL, as many do offer similar services. | |||
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The BC Archives is located in Victoria. You can do quite a bit of advance research online prior to making a trip there.<br> | |||
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=== Links === | === Links === | ||
www.virl.bc.ca<br> | |||
http://www.bcarchives.bc.ca/bcarchives/default.aspx<br> | |||
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=== Volunteer at the Centre === | === Volunteer at the Centre === | ||
We welcome new volunteers to work in the Family History Centre. Please contact the Director, above. | |||
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If you would like to do volunteer transcribing/indexing of records from home, your efforts will be appreciated by untold thousands (millions?) of researchers now and forever. The indexed records will be searchable and the originals will be viewable for FREE to everyone, at www.familysearch.org | |||
Try it. See if you like it:<br> | |||
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https://familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing<br> | |||
http://www.billiongraves.com/<br> | |||