I hope this message finds you well. As a valued member of the Ohio Genealogical Society family, I wanted to personally reach out to you to ask for your support for our Building Beyond Annual Campaign. Your generosity enables us…
Over the last several months we have been working on making improvements to the user experience for the OGS website. One of those recent improvements was an updated OGS event calendar that will now allow for OGS Chapters and Libraries…
It is hard to believe that it has been another year already, but what a year it has been! This year has been a year of challenges and great accomplishments for The Ohio Genealogical Society. Among the many achievements that…
Ohio Open Doors is September 11-20 this year, and this is 2020, so it is a virtual event! This program is sponsored by the Ohio History Connection, our state archives, and this year, Open Doors is celebrating “buildings and landmarks…
March 1, 1803 is Statehood Day for Ohio, the day that we were created (although they technically didn’t ratify it until 1953). Historians of all types get together in Columbus this time each year and talk to our State Senators…
Today, at the Samuel D. Isaly library of the Ohio Genealogical Society, a workshop was held to help individuals that wanted to apply to a lineage society. OGS now has 5 different lineage societies, each unique in its own way.…
The opening up of the land was the major reason for our pioneer ancestors to migrate into Ohio. OGS Trustee Cheryl Abernathy just sent out a Facebook note that her county land records were now online. We checked and, sure…
Family Search representative, John DeJong, along with Ashland County Probate Court Administrator, Nancy Dyer and Ohio Genealogical Society representative, Marleen Applegate met today at the Ashland County Probate Court to review and assess material for digitization. Exciting things are going…