The Cariboo Regional District library has among its many online databases a subscription to Ancestry Library Edition which is a subsidiary of Ancestry.com.
People interested in using the Ancestry Library Edition database should call librarian Caroline Derksen, who may be able to arrange for a volunteer to introduce the database and genealogy in general. In order to test out the site, Derksen says the library had amateur genealogist and librarian Barbara MacKenzie in Quesnel see what she could find on a local Williams Lake person who was willing to have the skeletons in his or her closet dug up and presented in a Who Do You Think You Are fashion based on the popular TV series.
“Val Biffert, a long-time and much appreciated volunteer in the community, was approached and quickly agreed although she didn’t think we’d find anything ‘interesting,’” Derksen says.
The Ancestry database is “in library access only” but if you check the webpage at www.cln.bc.ca — resources — links — genealogy, there are also plenty of free databases that can get you started on your own search for “who do you think you are,” Derksen says.