Family Roots Tracer

10/19/2025

My children also related to all those depicted here. Interesting that Queen Camilla not listed as well. She is related due to her French Canadian roots.

Chris Child delves into the French-Canadian roots of Pope Leo XIV, tracing his lineage back to the Boucher family of colonial Quebec.

08/31/2025

Up for a contest for $50 membership in a genealogical society. Search the KDGS Central Okanagan Database

ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT!
KELOWNA & DISTRICT GENEALOGICALOBITUA SOCIETY OBITUARIES CONTEST!

Win a $50 one-year membership – equivalent to at least 5 obituaries for free AND as a member, you will have access to the entire database of more than 24,000 records, attend monthly meetings with international and local experts for free and enjoy many other benefits.
Already a member? Then next year’s dues will be paid in advance.

To enter, all you do is download an obituary from the Central Okanagan Obituaries Database. Every download counts. The contest is ongoing now and is backdated to May 2025 so if you searched any time since then up to the deadline of midnight September 30, 2025 you are entered.

The draw will made be on October 2nd and the winner will be announced. The KDGS Membership Chair will be in touch to sign you up for your prize.

Head on over to kdgs.ca and look for SEARCH CENTRAL OKANAGAN OBITUARIES link and search free to your heart’s content. Downloads are what we can measure so put those obituaries in your cart and download them.
Free to current paid up members and $10 each download for non-members. Every download = one entry!

Xenia Stanford, Chair of KDGS Obituary Committee and Project Leader of the Central Okanagan Obituaries Project, will be presenting a Bite-size talk HOW TO SEARCH THE CENTRAL OKANAGAN OBITUARIES DATABASE at our society's regular meeting on September 8. The handout will be available on the page at https://www.facebook.com/KDGSca and on the kdgs.ca website.

Questions or comments: obits@kdgs.ca

Find forms for your feedback or questions at the bottom of the search obituaries page.

The Central Okanagan Obituaries Project of the Kelowna & District Genealogical Society is a recipient of a 2025 grant from
the City of Kelowna

02/23/2025

Looking for deaths of family in the Central Okanagan, check for the obits here.

Kelowna and District Genealogical Society is pleased to announce that our Central Okanagan Obituaries Project is the recipient of a City of Kelowna Cultural Grant for 2025 in the amount of $4500. This grant will greatly enable our team of dedicated volunteers to index, scan and make available the obituaries of Indigenous peoples, historical figures, and recent residents of the Central Okanagan. Check out our current index at: https://kdgs.ca/obituary-listings/ and watch for an announcement this May when you can search the entire growing database yourself.

10/24/2024

See us there The Artful Hand