Exhibitor Profile-Ohio Genealogical Society

Booth #507

Ohio Genealogical Society

611 State Route 97 W
Bellville OH 44813-8813
Phone: 419-886-1903
Website: http://www.ogs.org
Email: ogs@ogs.org
Hours:  Tues through Sat 9 to 5

 

The Ohio Genealogical Society is BIG for a state organization! We have over 5,500 members nationwide, over 50,000 books in our research library, over 2,000 friends on Facebook, over 15,000 members in our county chapters, and nearly 5 million hits from 156,439 unique users of our website in 2014 (happy, repeat customers). Membership is just $35 and non-members can get in for $5 per day.

What do members get for their buck? The Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly and our newsletter, Ohio Genealogy News, arrive online where members will find digitized and searchable copies of all our periodicals going back to 1959 including Ohio Records and Pioneer Families and the Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal. We are digitizing items from our collection all the time, including county and village histories, school yearbooks, city directories, hard-to-find genealogies, church records, and manuscript material. Our members get remote use of the Heritage Pursuit database which includes the text of over 250 Ohio county histories. Our special collections, including First Families of Ohio, Bible Records, ancestor charts, and surname files are all indexed on our website. And our online library catalog and copy request service make research easy even for members from afar.

We try to make it easy for visitors. Several hotels and restaurants are at the I-71 interchange (exit 165) just a half mile away. We offer free parking. Patrons can bring in their laptops, cameras, scanners, and even friends! Our copy machines and microfilm scanners will save to a flash drive, and our photocopies are modest (any size 20 cents per copy) for those of us who still depend on paper! We even subscribe to all those genealogy databases in the library for those who like to stick to those comfortable swivel computer chairs.

The original large 1880 census volumes for Ohio, wolf scalp records from pre-1820 Richland County, service cards for the 83rd Division American Expeditionary Forces during WWI, a printout of the entire Draper Manuscripts, an Ohio obituary file with around 750,000 cards, lineage papers for the Ohio Society of Mayflower Descendants, land ownership and quadrangle maps, a case file index for Cuyahoga County. You ask, and we probably have it! Every organization has its perks and every library has its treasures. You’ll enjoy your time with the Ohio Genealogical Society.

Exhibitor Profile-Ohio Genealogical Society