2024 - 2025 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Ontario County Genealogical Society             55 North Main Street, Canandaigua, New York 14424
	Website: https:www.ocgsny.net/

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

Sept. 4, 2024   Program:    "How Do I Search the Family Search Catalog for Records?"
                      Speaker:      Christine Antaolek, DAR Member
                                                  
Oct. 2, 2024    Program:    "Introduction to Writing for Genealogy"                        
                       Speaker:        Laurie Bauer, RCS Writers Group Chair
                                             
Nov.6, 2024   Program:    "Deane's Story: A World War II Research Case Study"  This program reviews the World War II experience of soldier Deane Sterrett                                                  and the military resources used to uncover his story.
                        Speaker:      Sara Greenleaf, OCGS and DAR Member
 
Dec. 4, 2024   Program:     6:00 PM "Christmas Social" with a 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. 1, 2025                        Winter Break:  No meeting

Feb. 5, 2025   Program:    "World War I Draft"       
                        Speaker:       Preston Pierce, Ontario County Hisorian, Canandaigua City Historian & OCGS Member

Mar. 5, 2025  Program:     "Documents/Documentations"
                        Speaker:       Barb Hill, OCGS President, WCNYGS President & DAR Member

Apr. 2, 2025   Program:     " TBD"
                       Speaker:        John Caufield, RGS Historian/Genealogist, Former Rochester Fire Chief

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

May 7, 2025   Program:     "Googling Earth for Genealogy"
                       Speaker:          Dennis Hogan, OCGS Member
  
June 4, 2025  Program:     6:00 PM "Annual Picnic" with Dish to Pass (bring your own place settings) & 
                                            7:00 PM   "Election of Officers". 
                                            "Newspapers for Genealogy"
                       Speaker:        Larry Naukam, Past RGS President

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
Presentations may be available via zoom for members.