We are the Gallia County Genealogical Society, OGS Chapter, Inc. and operate as a non-profit organization. We are governed by a seven member board which is elected by a vote of the membership at the Annual Meeting in January. We hold monthly meetings at the Probate Court in the Gallia County Court House at 7 PM the second Thursday of the month except for July, August and December. The general public is welcome to attend but only members have voting privileges at the Annual Meeting and only board members have voting privileges at the monthly meetings. Participation is welcomed for all who attend.

Members are encouraged to participate at all meetings and are also welcomed as volunteers at the office. There is much going on at the society on a daily basis and people are needed to input data into a computer, to index probate records, to help those who stop in to research, to copy records and see that family history or other notebooks are kept current with received material, and to create photo albums or scrapbooks. Current projects also include sorting through Civil War data and transcribing funeral home records.

We generally hold several events during the year, such as book signings for local authors, (and we also have their books for sale--see Publications). These events will appear on the calendar below, when they are scheduled. Every spring we cosponsor a Help Event for Scouts and 4-H members with the Bossard Memorial Library and every October we sponsor a lineage society banquet during which ancestors are honored and new members are accepted.

Please stop by our office and observe what we are doing. Our main goal is to help researchers and to preserve the records of Gallia County by copying or transcribing and compiling whatever is necessary. Also feel free to contact us with any suggestions or concerns.

57 Court Street
PO Box 1007
Gallipolis, OH 45631
740-446-4242
galliagenealogy@sbcglobal.net