2025- 2026 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Ontario County Genealogical Society             55 North Main Street, Canandaigua, New York 14424
	Website: https:www.ocgsny.net/

                                  Membership Registration is from 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Sept. 3, 2025   Program:    "Family Search's AI Experiment in Full Text Searchers"
                      Speaker:      Christine Antaolek, DAR Member
                                                  
Oct. 1, 2025    Program:  "OCGS 50th Anniversary Celebration" & "RGS Writers Group Publishing Project"                        
                        Speaker:        Laurie Bauer & John Albertini, RCS Writers Group
                                             
Nov.5, 2025   Program:    "World War I Veterans Buried in Ontario County (and a subset of their more unusual stories)"
                       Speaker:       Preston Pierce, Ontario County Historian
 
Dec. 3, 2025   Program:     6:00 PM "Christmas Social" with a Dish to pass (bring your own place settings)  
                                           7:30 PM  "Artifacts Tell a Story -Members bring in a family artifact and share a story."
                        Speaker:      OCGS Members & guest

Jan. 7, 2026                       Winter Break:  No meeting

Feb. 4, 2026   Program:    Note: This program is 10am at 3051 County Complex Drive, Canandaigua, NY  "Tour of Ontario County Archives"
                       Speaker:       Rosemary Switzer, Records Management Officer

Mar. 4, 2026  Program:     "Zinc Monuments in Ontario County"
                        Speaker:       Dave Bloom, OCGS Treasurer, The Gravestone Guy

Apr. 1, 2026   Program:     " Researching Women for your Genealogy"
                       Speaker:        Barb Hill, OCGS President, WCNYGS President & DAR Member

May 6, 2026   Program:     "Artificial Intelligence for Genealogy"
                       Speaker:          Dennis Hogan, OCGS Member, Past Town of Gorham Historian
  
June 3, 2026  Program:     6:00 PM "Annual Picnic" with Dish to Pass (bring your own place settings) & 
                                            7:00 PM   "Election of Officers". 
                                            "Using Libraries and Archives for Genalogical Research"
                       Speaker:       Sara Greenleaf, OCGS Member and DAR Member
  
Programs and meeting places are subject to change on short notice.  All evening meetings convene at 7:00 PM, on the first Wednesday of the month at the Ontario County Historical Society Museum, 55 North Main Street, Canandaigua, New York, unless otherwise stated.   Meetings are cancelled when Canandaigua, NY schools are closed due to inclement weather.CALL OCHS/OCGS to make sure.  Phone: 585-394-4975 email: barbarah@ocgsny.net
Presentations may be available via zoom for members.