There is an exciting new project in its infancy at the Salmon Arm Museum.

In celebration of the new century, volunteers are actively collecting family trees from Salmon Arm residents. "If we wait passively, they'll never show up," says Deborah Chapman, Archivist. "Older families are preferred," Chapman continues. "We want to understand the relationships between families." Archive volunteers are sometimes puzzled when working on new collections, and "having family trees will dispel some of our confusion."