The next meeting of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan will be held next Saturday, November 8, 2008 at the Mount Clemens Public Library, 150 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, Michigan. The meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. Our speaker, Lori Feret, will talk about "Lighthouse Ghost Stories – Part II". Light refreshments will be served. The meeting will be followed by a FCHSM board meeting. French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan meetings are open to the public. For additional information, please visit our website at http://habitant.org/fchsm. If unfavorable weather conditions exist (snow or storms), call the Mount Clemens Public Library at 586-469-6200 to check if the meeting has been canceled We hope to see you there! -- People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke (1729–1797) -

March 7, 2009 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada All day seminar with Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak. Topics: Trace Your Roots with DNA; Reverse Genealogy: Techniques for Finding Your Lost Loved Ones; Introduction to Ancestry.com; Cases That Made My Brain Hurt Co-sponsored by the British Columbia Genealogical Society and the Cloverdale Branch of the Surrey Public Library. See www.bcgs.ca for details.