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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: ivorjbody on Thursday 07 January 21 15:23 GMT (UK)
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What ever happened to outfutureourpast.ca? You could look up all the family books published. I found photos of my family and found photos of other peoples family. One young girl said her and her mum cried when I sent them a copy of her great great grandparents. They did not know what they looked like?
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Did you mean Our Roots/Our Future Our Past migration ?
https://libapps.ucalgary.ca/
Sandra
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No this was one family I looked up. http://ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=1049287 some years ago.
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Ivor,
Having Googled for this site this result came up :
Our Roots / Our Future Our Past collections migrated to a new platform:
https://library.ucalgary.ca/digital
Al & Al
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I am sorry but this site does not have the books that they used to have. They had all immigrants from the British empire detailing from where they came from, photos of their time in Canada, plots of land they had on arriving, the hard times they had etc and there is nothing on this site. There were many books which now seem to have been lost.
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Go back click show more they are in there. Its just a harder site to navigate now and the indexing isn't the same.
Don
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I have just tried the book by David C Jones "We'll are be buried down here" Drought 1917-1926. All I got was paper reports with highlighted bits like David or buried. Ourfutureourpast.ca was brilliant. You could read page after page of families. I did not know my young cousin was buried on the farmland, as there was no where else. How hard it was for everyone during that time with emancipated live stock and food shortages. There were many books similar to this of photos and stories. So easy to navigate. Where are they?
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How would I have known about my cousin without ourfutureourpast.ca like this for instance? Or The Bradleys who's relatives in England probably do not know the following pages exist?
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The book you referenced by David C Jones is there in its entirety. Go to the Advanced Search option and put in the title of the book and you can read it all.
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I cannot see advance search. Perhaps it is because I cannot sign in anymore and I cannot see how to re-register? ivor
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https://www.rootschat.com/links/01q74/
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Thanks Maureen. Yes that is brilliant, but it is hard to navigate I fast forward the index at the bottom of the page to 232, but it does not come up to the Body page?The arrow at the right does not work? In the old way you just flipped the pages over. Also how can I get to the other books please? Still Cannot see the advance search? i do not seem to have an account anymore and cannot see how to register again? ivor
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Sorry to be a pain everyone. I really cannot understand this site? Maureen can you show me this book please. Lethbridge Alberta Canada Shortest Day and the Longest night?
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Sorry to be a pain everyone. I really cannot understand this site? Maureen can you show me this book please. Lethbridge Alberta Canada Shortest Day and the Longest night?
Sorry,Ivor. I'm not going to be any help. Blind leading the blind!
Oddly,I don't see that book title anywhere-even on Google.
Maureen