The Society board members have been hard at work planning our program schedule for the coming year. Your membership mailing will be going out late next week, on 8/15/2013. Remember, the Society mails using our bulk permit, so delivery may take up to a week. Please check your expiration date before renewing. Some members have paid ahead for a year or two. If you expiration date is 2013, you will owe dues for the 2013-14 program year. Please consider making a donation to our funds. Even a dollar from each member for each fund makes a huge difference.
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The Ruth Kennedy Fund - OCGS uses the Kennedy fund donations for preservation of Oakland County records. Our cemetery publications and our 1890 census substitute project are examples. The 1890 census substitute records are on-line free at: www.ocgsmi.org/free-genealogical-data/. Thank you for making this possible.
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The 1812 Pension digitization by the Federation of Genealogical Societies. This initiative is digitizing and indexing the pensions files for free public access. information at: http://www.preservethepensions.org/, OCGS forwards your donation to the Federation of Genealogical Societies.
- The Genealogical Collection at the Archives of Michigan. Donations which we forward to the Archives help support and expand the genealogical collection at the Archives of Michigan.you
We are looking forward to seeing you are our first meeting on October 1, 2013 You can see the complete schedule at: http://www.ocgsmi.org/meetings/
OCGS is sorry to report that Our member Dennis C. Kleiss passed away August 5th. Arrangements are here: http://www.sullivanfuneraldirectors.com/obituary/Dennis-F.-Kleiss/Royal-Oak-MI/1232365.
The Society appreciates your support, we could not maintain our programs, publications, website and other services without our dues-paying members! You may also pay on-line at ocgsmi.org/join. When you do pay on-line, be sure to use the contact form to volunteer for Society projects.
When renewing by mail, please check the back of your member form, so you can find a way to help the Society. There are many volunteer opportunities for willing hands.