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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS in Region VIII OGS

2012 is an election year for Officers for Region VIII.  Do you wish to assist OGS and the Branches in Region VIII?  As well as the genealogy community in Region VIII?  Consider standing for Director of Region VIII or Secretary.  Region VIII consists of Ottawa Branch, Kingston Branch and Leeds & Grenville Branch, as well as Lanark County Genealogy Group, British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa and the Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogy Group.  You will need ten OGS members in good standing to sign your Nomination Form (front), Nomination Form (back) and submit it to chair@ogsottawa.on.ca for election at the upcoming Region VIII Meeting on Saturday, April 21, 2012.

Storing and Preserving Family Archives and Artifacts Workshop 3 March 2012

 

Region VIII AGM and Genealogy Day


We Need You||

We continue to seek volunteers to work on your Board or on other tasks for the Branch. Do you have a skill of experience that would help the Branch? Is there something that you would like to learn while contributing to the Branch? Or do you feel that it’s time to giver somehtback to the genealogical community? The descriptions of the Board positions are at Job Descriptions. Most of these jobs will require 5-6 hours of work per month. See Here for more opportunities to help.

Library Volunteers Still Needed

The new City of Ottawa Archives is complete and now open.

The hours of operation have increased and we need more people to help visitors and researchers. Branch volunteers serve as monitors, giving limited advice about the collections to visiting researchers, collecting fees and re-shelving books. We can always use additional volunteers. Anyone willing to provide this valuable but not onerous service for a few hours per month should contact the librarian or past chair.

The Archives will be open Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 4pm and, from September to May, Saturday 10am to 5pm. Volunteers are not needed for the full day, so we normally have one volunteer for the morning, 10am to 12:30pm, and another in the afternoon, 12:30 to 3:30pm. Similarly 11am to 1:30pm and 1:30-4pm on Saturday.

Most of us only work every second week but I am open to more frequently if you want. There are still a few shifts that are vacant, so if you would like to volunteer to help in the Archives, contact me at pastchair@ogsottawa.on.ca. There will be an orientation session prior to opening to the public. A new Instruction Manual will also be provided.

It is a remarkable facility and I think everyone will be very pleased with it.

Members at Large

The Board has approved the establishment of two Member-at-Large positions on the Ottawa Branch Board. These positions are intended to introduce new people to the Board. Click here for details.

Gene-O-Rama

Gene-O-Rama 2011 is now history and by all accounts was an enjoyable experience. Thanks to all of you who attended and a big thank you to all the volunteers and vendors who made it a success.

There will NOT be a Gene-O-Rama in 2012 as Ottawa Branch will be co-hosting the annual OGS Conference 2012 in Kingston on 1-3 June 2012. Stay tuned for more details.

Ottawa Branch will also be hosting the 2012 Region VIII Genealogy Day on 21 Apr2012 at the City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa. Speaker will include Rick Roberts of Global Genealogy, Robert Serré of the Gloucester Historical Society and a representative from the City of Ottawa Archives. More details will be available soon on this website.

Ottawa Branch

Ottawa Branch is one of 30 Branches of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS). The Ottawa Branch is “responsible” for Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Prescott and Russell Counties in Ontario. The Branch consists of members who seek and share information about family history searching. Its mission is “To encourage, assist and bring together all those interested in the pursuit of family history.” If you want to discover more about your family origins, or how and where to locate information about your ancestors, hundreds of our members will be there to help you.

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