1. Read the Rules 2. Properly fill out the front page of the application and sign the application 3. Fill out the Ascent Chart starting with yourself and working backwards 4. Collect the documentation required to prove the…
Below you will find some suggestions and examples concerning source citations that will be helpful when submitting lineage application documents. Also attached is a list of further suggestions, websites, and books that will help you with source citations. Source citations…
Authors invest much time, money and talent in their books. Please remember that a couple of pages of a copyrighted book/magazine article, manuscript, etc. can be copied for your personal research use. Any more than that, you need to obtain permission…
“Ticked Off: Those Pesky Pre-1850 Census Tic Marks” will by the topic of a class by world-renowned speaker Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, who luckily lives just up the road from the Ohio Genealogical Society library. The date is Saturday, June 25th…
One of our OGS members is teaching her 10-year old daughter, Emma, how to do research on her family. Last week Emma and her mom came to the Samuel D. Isaly Library to research. Emma is a member of several…