Programs

2018 - 2019 PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Ontario County Genealogical Society
55 North Main Street, Canandaigua, New York 14424

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

Sept. 5, 2018 Program:    "World War I the Local Experience"
   Speaker: Dr. Preston Pierce, Ontario County Historian

Oct. 3, 2018    Program:    "Vital Records of New York State before 1880"
                        Speaker: Marian Henry, RGS member

Oct. ?, 2018 Field Trip:    TBA

Nov. 7, 2018 Program:     "DNA for Genealogy"
                        Speaker:   Dennis A. Hogan, Professional Genealogist, Specialties: New York State & Ireland, member of OCGS & RGS

Dec. 5, 2018 Program:     6:00 PM "Christmas Social" with Dish to Pass (bring your own place settings)
                                           7:30 PM  "Roundtable of members - Sharing their genealogy Finds and Brickwalls."
                       Speaker:      OCGS Members & guest

Jan. 2019 Winter Break: No meeting

Feb. 6, 2019 Program: "The Mystery of the Missing 1917 Census Records "
Speaker: Dr. Preston Pierce, Ontario County Historian

Mar. 6, 2019 Program:   "Fulton History - The Post Card website"
                        Speaker:      Dennis A. Hogan, Professional Genealogist, Specialties: New York State & Ireland,
                                           member of OCGS & RGS

Apr. 3, 2019 Program:    "Ancestry.com - Ancestry Home & Library Edition"
                       Speaker:       Sara Greenleaf, OCGS & DAR Member

Apr or May  Field Trip:      Elmira Steele Memorial Library for Research ?

May 1, 2019 Program:     "Planning a Genealogy Vacation"
                        Speaker:       Larry Naukam, RGS member

June 5, 2019 Program:     6:00 PM "Annual Picnic" with Dish to Pass (bring your own place settings) &
                                          7:00 PM   "Election of Officers".
                                           "Elizabeth Ellet: First Women Historian of U.S. Women's History"
   Speaker:    Rosa Fox, Town of Huron Historian

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

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