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Lang has traced his family back to 1771 on his dad’s side, who are all Germans from Russia, and his mother’s side was all French, which he can trace back to 1630.
“There’s always really good records for the French side,” he side.
Lang says the hardest part for anyone researching their family histories is finding accurate information, which can be hard with the amount of information available on the Internet.
“A good example is a census report I saw online around the Beiseker area, and the guy who translated it spelled all the names wrong,” he said. “Those corrections don’t always get made, so there’s a lot of bad information out there. It takes a lot of research to find the proper information.”
The purpose of the Society, according to Lang, is to help members do their research and help solve problems.
“We have a couple of members who will help people doing their research,” he said. “We received an e-mail from a man from Australia who thought he
had relatives around here. They started looking into it, and found the man’s relative in Lethbridge. The result of it was the man traveled to Canada to meet his relative. It was quite a good success story.”
When asked about youth membership in the group, Lang says they try to encourage everyone to join, but there are few younger people in the group.
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“When you get older, it seems to be so much more important. Younger people aren’t all that excited about where they come from, they just want to live in the minute.”
For first-time genealogists, Lang has advice to make the experience easier and less-stressful for them.
“First of all, you need to begin with
I don’t think you can understand who you are until you know who your ancestors were or where they came from.
“Most of the members are middle-aged or retired age, and when you’re at that age, you have the time to research and you’re really interested in knowing where they come from,” said Lang.
to your parents and begin tracing. You expand and expand, and it can get large.”
For those who take part in genealogy, finding out about your family, and learning who they are is the biggest appeal.
“Obviously, you can’t find out what they were like as a person, but if you find out what their occupation was, it is interesting,” said Stahl, whose ancestors from the early 1800s were shepherds in Poland, which suggested they were migratory.
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your immediate family; yourself, parents, kids, and record all of their birthdates and where they were born,” he said. “Then you spread out, maybe start with your siblings, and then move
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“I don’t think you can understand who you are until you know who your ancestors were or where they came from,” said Stahl.
The organization meets on the first Wednesday of every month in the library at Hillside Monumental Building at 7 p.m., except for July and August. The library is also open on Wednesdays from 1- 3 p.m. for members to browse and check out items. Membership in the organization costs $50 a year. ■
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