2024 Program Schedule for the Ottawa County Genealogical Society

MEETING LOCATION CHANGED!!!!

DUE TO MAJOR RENOVATIONS BEING DONE TO THE IDA RUPP LIBRARY, ALL OCOGS MEETINGS IN 2024 WILL BE HELD IN THE LOWER LEVEL MEETING ROOM OF THE OAK HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY, 147 WEST MAIN ST. IN OAK HARBOR. AN ELEVATOR IS AVAILABLE.

MEETINGS ARE HELD THE THIRD TUESDAY OF MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER

ALL MEETING (except July) BEGIN AT 5:30 PM

March 19, 2024:  WELCOME BACK MEETING- GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE RESOURCES OF OUR NEW MEETING LOCATION – THE OAK HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM – Kathy Huffman, Museum Librarian 

April 16, 2024: PRESIDENT HAYES CONNECTIONS TO OTTAWA COUNTY – Dan Barker, Hayes Museum

May 21, 2024:  USING FAMILY SEARCH WEBSITE – Julia Chase of the Family History Center in Perrysburg

June 18, 2024: HIS FRAUDULENCY (?) -RUTHERFORD B HAYES AND THE CONTESTED ELECTION OF 1876 – Christie Weininger, Director of the Hayes Museum

July 16, 2024 – FIELD TRIP TO THE RECORDER’S OFFICE AT OTTAWA COUNTY COURT HOUSE – Nathan Daniels, County Recorder   (PLEASE NOTE WE WILL BE MEETING AT 1 PM AT THE COURT HOUSE)

September 17, 2024: JUMP START YOUR GENEALOGY RESEARCH – Christina Yetzer Drain, genealogist and historian, President of Richland-Shelby Genealogy Society 

October 15, 2024: IT WAS IN THE WRONG PLACE – BUILDINGS THAT MOVED IN OAK HARBOR- John Liske, Oak Harbor Library

November 19, 2024:  – HIDDEN TREASURES OF OHIO’S COURTS OF COMMOM PLEAS – Tom Neel