OGS Dateline - 2010 01 16 - Ohio Genealogical Society's E-zine
Contents This Issue:
- 2010 Conference Program Brochure and Registration Form Now Available
- OGS Official Ballot for 2010 Elections Distributed to Members
- Member Benefit: WorldVitalRecords Now Available to OGS Members
- Member Benefit: Films from Salt Lake City Now Can Be Used at OGS
- Still Time to Enter the 3rd Annual Ohio Genealogical Society Writing Competition
- Follow Progress on Our New Building from Your Home Computer
2010 Annual Conference Registration and Program Booklet Is Available
OGS members received the 2010 Conference Program and Registration
booklet with the Winter 2009 edition of Ohio Genealogy News, which was
mailed recently. A copy also can be downloaded from the Society's website at
www.ogs.org <http://www.ogs.org/> .
The Conference program features 56 presentations by genealogical
experts on Friday and Saturday. In addition there will be six 2-hr workshops
to choose from on Thursday beginning at 2 pm.
For genealogists just starting out, there will be a Beginning
Genealogy Workshop on Saturday morning. There will be no charge to attend
this workshop. Tell your friends who are just starting out in genealogy!
During the Conference, the OGS Lineage Societies will hold their
banquets and inductions, and the Annual Business Luncheon will be held on
Saturday.
Also, exhibits will open earlier on Thursday and stay open longer, and
there will be genealogy computer tech help-sessions both Friday and
Saturday.
OGS Official Ballot for 2010 Elections Distributed to Members
Attention OGS members! Your copy of the Official Ballot for the 2010
elections was included in the Winter 2009 edition of the Ohio Genealogy News
mailed to you recently. It includes the names and bios of all candidates for
OGS offices. Please mark your ballot and mail it to OGS headquarters so that
it arrives no later than March 1, 2010. Mark your envelope Attention:
Ballot. Note: This ballot may not be duplicated. Two ballots are provided
for those who have joint memberships.
Member Benefit: WorldVitalRecords Now Available to OGS Members
The Ohio Genealogical Society now offers the database
WorldVitalRecords.com to our memberss via the member portal on the OGS
website at www.ogs.org <http://www.ogs.org/> . WVR is a database component
of FamilyLink, a social networking web company and includes thousands of
database broken down by category - Birth/Death/Marriage, Census,
Court/Land/Probate, Directories, Family History, Family Trees, Immigration,
Military, Newspapers, and Reference. OGS members will find a nice selection
of material although all databases are not complete and some images are not
indexed.
The link on the OGS website is directly below the NewspaperArchive.com
database that has been available for some time. We are permitted ten (10)
remote users at a time, so if it is busy, try again.
If you are not a member, you can join. OGS membership is a bargain at
$32 per year.
Member Benefit: Films from Salt Lake City Now Can Be Used at OGS
The Ohio Genealogical Society was recently issued a Certificate of
License and designated as a FamilySearch Center and may now borrow microfilm
and microfiche for patrons. The lending fees, designated by the Genealogical
Society of Utah, are $5.50 per microfilm roll for a 30-day loan and $0.15
per microfiche card on indefinite loan status. This includes shipping.
We order by FHL film number from the Family History Library catalog
portion of the www.familysearch.org web site. That number is found under"View Film Notes" when bringing up a record series. The films must be
utilized in the OGS Library and a special drawer in the microtext area has
been set aside for items while they are on loan.
This will be of interest to library patrons who wish to do research in a
distant US courthouse or in foreign archives.
Still Time to Enter the 3rd Annual OGS Writing Competition
Showcase your genealogical writing talent in one of the Ohio
Genealogical Society's outstanding journals. OGS is sponsoring its third
annual genealogical writing contest for authors of genealogical and
historical material. The contest is for articles dealing with Ohio history
and genealogy, Ohio records groups, Ohioans who left to settle elsewhere,
and Ohio families including Civil War veterans. OGS welcomes articles
ranging in size from 750 words up to 5,000 words, depending on the subject.
The winning entries will be published in one of the following four
journals: Ohio Genealogy News (OGN - quarterly newsletter, included in OGS
membership), Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly (OGSQ - quarterly journal,
included in OGS membership), Ohio Records & Pioneer Families (ORPF -
quarterly, and Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal (OCWGJ - quarterly, by
subscription). For information on the content used in each journal, go to
the OGS website and click on the link 3rd Annual Writing Competition
<http://ogs.org/writing2010/index.php> 2010.
Three winning articles will be selected in each category. The first
prize winner will receive a one-year OGS membership, a one-year subscription
to Ohio Records & Pioneer Families and a one-year subscription to the Ohio
Civil War Genealogy Journal. The second place winner will receive his/her
choice of two of the above listed prizes. The third place winner will
receive her/his choice of one of the above named prizes. Winning articles
will be featured in appropriate OGS journals.
Entries are being accepted through 28 Feb 2010. For more details about
the competition, and instructions on how to submit your entry, go to the
Society's website at www.ogs.org <http://www.ogs.org/> and click on the
link for the competition (see above).
Follow Progress on Our New Building from Your Home Computer
You can follow construction on the OGS Library and Headquarters by
checking out photos from the construction site. Go to the OGS website at <outbind://18/OGS%20Enews/2010%2001/www.ogs.org> www.ogs.org and click on
this link: "Follow the construction progress!" This links you to an OGS blog
begun on July 14, 2009, and devoted to presenting photos showing the
construction progress.
The most recent posting on Tuesday, January 12, shows several s
<http://ohiogenealogicalsociety.blogspot.com/2010/01/scenes-as-work-progress
es-inside.html> scenes as construction work progresses inside.
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2010 Conference Planning Is Complete; Mark Your Calendar
The dates of next year's Ohio Genealogical Society conference are 22-24 April 2010, and the venue will be the Seagate Convention Center in Toledo. Theme for the conference will be "Guiding Your Way through the Past."
Conference Co-Chairs Karen Bennett, CG and Miriam Fetters, and Dwane Grace, Program Chair, report that planning is complete for a feature-packed program.
Here are some of the features of the 2010 Conference they have come up with:
- There will be six workshops to choose from on Thursday.
- Exhibits will open earlier on Thursday and stay open longer.
- The OGS Lineage Societies will hold their banquets & inductions.
- There will be genealogy computer tech help-sessions both Friday & Saturday.
- Individual brick-wall sessions with professional genealogists will be available.
- An Ask the Experts session will be held on Friday night.
- A beginner-beginner's workshop that will be free to the
public--attendees
don't have to be registered for the conference to attend this workshop. - A "Meet your Facebook Friends" get-together will be included.
- There will be a Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) workshop.
- OGS lineage chairs will be available for individual lineage application Q & A sessions.
- There will be a Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) workshop.
- A visit to the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.
- Surname Exchange.
- Door prizes.
- Awards
In addition, Deb Deal, Exhibits Chair, is busy signing up vendors. To view details as they are made available, go to the OGS website at www.ogs.org. <http://www.ogs.org>
Our Newest Lineage Society Honors Century Families
Do you have ancestors who lived in Ohio 100 years ago or more? You can
honor them by preparing an application to the newest OGS lineage society,
Century Families of Ohio, which recognizes the many immigrant families who
traveled to and settled in Ohio from 1861 to one hundred years prior to
application into the society.
Recognizing Ohio ancestors has always played an important role in the
history of OGS. The society currently offers several lineage societies:
First Families of Ohio, honoring the pioneers who first settled in Ohio
before 1820; Settlers and Builders of Ohio, honoring the second wave of
industrious pioneers who resided in Ohio from 1821 to 1860; and the Society
of Civil War Families of Ohio, paying homage to those with Ohio ties who
bravely served in the War Between the States.
Deadline for submitting an application to any OGS lineage group is
December 31 of the current year. Approved applicants for these societies
receive a certificate and pin at the annual OGS Conference.
The application form for the new lineage society will be available
shortly on the OGS website at <http://www.ogs.org> www.ogs.org; the others
are already available for downloading.
Nov. 18, 2008
for Ohio Genealogical Society
COLOMBUS OHIO - The Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission approved $350,000 at its quarterly meeting today for the Ohio Genealogical Society. The Ohio Genealogical Society is embarking on construction of an 18,000-square-foot facility to better accommodate the Society's expanding membership and its growing library collection. The new home for the Ohio Genealogical Society, to be located near Mansfield, will serve professional and hobbyist genealogists with climate-controlled space for archives, a reading room, a preservation and digitization lab, meeting space and classrooms, and office space. Established in 1959, the Ohio Genealogical Society is the largest state genealogical society in the country, with over 6,000 members, 95 chapters, nearly 35,000 books and a lending library with more than 2,000 titles and publications. For more information on OGS, visit www.ogs.org.
The Commission approval, coupled with the signing of legal agreements, allows the Ohio Genealogical Society to be reimbursed on a pro rata basis with funds appropriated in Am. Sub. H.B. 562 of the Ohio 127th General Assembly. Richland County General Assembly members who voted in favor of the bill include Senator Bill Harris, and Representatives Thom Collier and Jay Goyal. The new facility will be located in Belleville in Richland County.
The Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission is a state agency that helps enhance the quality of life for Ohioans by improving the state's cultural facilities. Since 1988, the Commission has disbursed more than $400 million of capital funds appropriated by the Legislature and Governor for facility improvement projects at nonprofit theaters, museums, historical sites and publicly owned professional sports venues. The Commission partners with nonprofit groups and local governments on more than 300 projects in 72 of Ohio's 88 counties. For more information on the Commission, visit http://www.culture.ohio.gov