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“How-to: The OGS Events Calendar” Webinar” | Noel B. Poirier, OGS Executive Director | March 2023

The OGS recently improved its online events calendar to better facilitate OGS Chapters, Genealogical Groups, and Libraries to post their genealogy or family history events directly into the calendar. OGS Webmaster Lili McCutchan and OGS Executive Director Noel Poirier will…

“Lineage Societies Part 3, Putting It All Together” | Presented by Margaret Cheney

You have collected your documentation and now it is time to put it together. Learn the steps of assembly that will produce an excellent lineage application. Presenter Margaret Cheney has been chair of First Families of Ohio Lineage Society for…

“Lineage Societies of the Ohio Genealogical Society” Part Two | Margaret Cheney |

The Ohio Genealogical Society has 6 different lineage societies. Learn what they are about and how to qualify for any one of them. This program will be an overview of the Lineage Societies and how to determine which one you…

“More Reasons Not to Fear the OGS Catalog” by OGS Librarian Linda Swanson

The 2nd in a series. Viewers should watch the first part of this webinar series before viewing this one.…

“Lineage Societies of the Ohio Genealogical Society” presented by Margaret Cheney

The Ohio Genealogical Society has 6 different lineage societies. Learn what they are about and how to qualify for any one of them. This program will be an overview of the Lineage Societies and how to determine which one you…

“Who’s Afraid of the OGS Library Catalog?” by Linda Swanson

Presented by OGS Librarian Linda Swanson. Interested in visiting the OGS Samuel D. Isaly Library but don’t know how to search for the library books and materials you think you’ll need? OGS Librarian Linda Swanson will help guide you through…

“An Unlikely Source” by Noel B. Poirier

Join Ohio Genealogical Society’s Noel Poirier as he discusses the ancestor and his book of poetry that began his family history journey while also shedding light on the 19th-century rural Virginia community in which that ancestor lived. The book of…