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Registration is now open for the 2025 Mavourneen Harshman OGS Librarian Day being held October 22, 2025. For more inform...
08/22/2025

Registration is now open for the 2025 Mavourneen Harshman OGS Librarian Day being held October 22, 2025. For more information and to register, visit: www.ogs.org/event/ogs-librarian-day

One of the hundreds of digitized books available for viewing on the OGS website for OGS members is the "Clermont County ...
08/21/2025

One of the hundreds of digitized books available for viewing on the OGS website for OGS members is the "Clermont County Infirmary Discharges Index, 1860-1948". You can explore this resource and thousands of others by joining the OGS at www.ogs.org

The 2026 OGS writing contests are currently underway! Ohio Genealogy News (OGN) contest submissions are currently open u...
08/19/2025

The 2026 OGS writing contests are currently underway!

Ohio Genealogy News (OGN) contest submissions are currently open until September 30, 2025.

Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly (OGSQ) contest submissions will be accepted September 1 through December 31, 2025.

Winners receive a one-year membership to OGS and cash prize. More details can be found at https://www.ogs.org/about/awards/ or by emailing [email protected]

Thank you to the librarians and patrons who came out to the OGS Samuel D Isaly Library on Saturday for our Road Trip to ...
08/18/2025

Thank you to the librarians and patrons who came out to the OGS Samuel D Isaly Library on Saturday for our Road Trip to Family History!

On the latest episode of the OGS Ohio Roots podcast we speak with Angela O'Neal, the Manager of Local History & Genealog...
08/18/2025

On the latest episode of the OGS Ohio Roots podcast we speak with Angela O'Neal, the Manager of Local History & Genealogy at Columbus Metropolitan Library's Main Library. Angela discusses the resources available to genealogists and family historians, how to access those resources, and much more. To listen, visit www.ogs.org/podcasts or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

08/16/2025

Your financial support to the Ohio Genealogical Society allows us to continue to collect and preserve important collections like the OGS Yearbook Collection (of which this is a recent donation to). Please consider a financial donation to the OGS to aid us in our efforts. You can make a gift at www.ogs.org/donate and thank you.

Planning a genealogy road trip this month? Add the OGS Library as a stop! Join us on Saturday, August 16, 10am-3pm, for ...
08/14/2025

Planning a genealogy road trip this month? Add the OGS Library as a stop! Join us on Saturday, August 16, 10am-3pm, for a meet-up of local history and genealogy librarians at the OGS Library! Librarians from Medina, Wayne, Stark, and Summit Counties are bringing their local genealogy expertise to us! They, along with OGS staff, will be available to answer your questions and help you research at the OGS Library. Open to all and no registration needed! For details on this and other upcoming programs, visit the OGS Event Calendar at www.ogs.org/events

OGS Members can access copies of our current and out-of-print publications including issues of the OGS Ohio Records and ...
08/14/2025

OGS Members can access copies of our current and out-of-print publications including issues of the OGS Ohio Records and Pioneer Families, where this image comes from, that include amazing information! Join today at www.ogs.org

The Ohio Genealogical Society would like to acknowledge and thank volunteer Aaron Turner for a very generous donation of...
08/13/2025

The Ohio Genealogical Society would like to acknowledge and thank volunteer Aaron Turner for a very generous donation of 315 high school yearbooks given in memory of Miss Rosemary Sutter (1947-2024) who taught junior high school for 30 years with Cleveland Public Schools. The majority of these yearbooks are from Jefferson, Harrison, Columbiana, and Belmont Counties. Aaron has just finished cataloging all of these yearbooks and they are on the shelf for patron use. To view the complete list of yearbooks available at the OGS Library, please click https://www.ogs.org/resource_type/library-special-collections-item/ and select "A List of Yearbooks". Any one interested in donating yearbooks or helping collect them for OGS, please contact [email protected]

A photograph of farmer H.J. Barnes from the OGS Lyle H West Archives collection "Shelby Farmers Newspaper Clippings Coll...
08/13/2025

A photograph of farmer H.J. Barnes from the OGS Lyle H West Archives collection "Shelby Farmers Newspaper Clippings Collection" available to OGS members on the OGS website.

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