Gene-O-Rama 2019
Registration is now open for GOR2019
We welcome any volunteers; contact me at Ottawa Branch Past Chair <ottawapastchair@ogs.on.ca> if you’d like to join the organizing team or simply work on the weekend.
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Volunteer Opportunities
Looking for a new challenge for the future? Here’s a way to expand your genealogical network. If you are looking for a rewarding opportunity, your assistance would be appreciated. The current executive members are willing to train and help ease the transition to these positions. We look forward to hearing from you. Please contact Mike More at ottawaprogram@ogs.on.ca.
- Branch Editor
- Membership Director
- Treasurer
- Vice Chair
- Member at Large
Check here for details on these and other opportunities
Genealogy: Back To Basics
Starting in January 2015, Ottawa Branch OGS will present a genealogical education session prior to the monthly program. See our Announcements page for more details
Membership
Membership in Ontario Genealogical Society provides for the ability to join Ottawa Branch. Please refer to the OGS Membership page for complete details.
What Can I Do?
It’s sure nice to hear that at a meeting: What can I do to help the Branch?
Some of us have been on the Board for several years. Check the list in the latest issue of The Ottawa Genealogist to see what positions are vacant. If you don’t think you are ready, the current Board would be happy to spend the next year training replacements. Most of these jobs require only a couple of hours each week and I am sure that most of us could afford to skip a couple of TV shows. The descriptions of the Board positions are at Job Descriptions.
Not ready to contribute to running the Branch? There are other smaller tasks to be done. How about bringing the juice and cookies to the monthly meeting? Show up half an hour early to start the coffee pot brewing? Welcome new members at meetings? Spend a couple of hours in the City Archives helping researchers? Help give a course or introduction to new genealogists? Work on the Facebook or Blog? Tell your story in The Ottawa Genealogist or at a branch meeting? How about indexing some of our holdings for The Ontario Name Index? Help with a library project? There are many ways that you can contribute to the Branch. Let us know what you can do to help.
It is your Branch and every one of you is responsible for its future. Working together we can make the Branch better and help our hobby.
Mike More
Ottawa Branch
Ottawa Branch is one of 29 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. 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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