| Mary Bole |
| Mary Bole was born in Alberta, obtaining a B Ed. Degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Her teaching career was interrupted by raising two children and moving with her husband’s job. She attended classes at the University of British Columbia on doing Genealogical Research using a Library. At the age of 50 she was the oldest member of her class of Library Technicians at Red River College. She then worked in a school library, and volunteered cataloguing the holdings of the Manitoba Genealogy Society. Now retired, Mary is the Library Chair for the Manitoba Genealogical Society. She first became interested in genealogy in 1975, has conducted extensive research at Salt Lake City, National Archives and Library of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario Archives in Toronto as well as visiting resources and family in England, Scotland and Italy. Over the past thirty years she has published 12 family histories of her own and her husband’s families. |
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| Presentations: |
| • | Manitoba Genealogical Society Resources |
| | This presentation will explore the resources available at the Manitoba Genealogical Society’s Resource Center. It will center on Manitoba resources, discussing transcribed cemeteries and church records, indexed obituaries and census returns, the value of local history books as well as our collection of directories, atlases, gazetteers, etc. The library houses nearly 10,000 items. Internet sites of interest to those searching in Manitoba will be included. |
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