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MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION:

Membership/Surname List

MEMBERS: Please send in your updated Five Generation Chart

(To Print: Set printer margins to 0.5) to use please make sure you sign and date it to give us permission to publish.

If you have sent in an updated form within the last year, please don’t send it in again unless there is a change. We will use them in our newsletter and index them for the library.

If you are not a member and would like to have your Five Generation Chart Published please send in your membership with your Five Generation Chart signed and dated.

What is the membership year? - A membership form (below) must be postmarked by Oct. 1st. for a person to be considered a member for the current year and entitled to one back issue of the newsletter as well as newsletters for the remainder of the current year. Applications received after Oct 1st. will be considered for membership for the following calendar year. (This avoids the high cost of sending back issues of the newsletter.) Membership year goes from January through December. 

Annual dues are $15.00 per person, $18.00 per family.

Print and fill out this convenient membership form:    

       Microsoft Word PDF

You will receive our quarterly newsletter, "Yesteryears Trails", with unlimited submissions, you will receive our latest research guide, be eligible to participate in the annual attendance prizes and be eligible to apply for our lineage societies of the First Families of Defiance County.

How can you gain from membership in our chapter? - Be active, volunteer to work on committees and help with projects. We can always use help with abstracting information, typing, computer work, indexing, and other work. While you are working on projects you will possibly find information on your family.

How the chapter can gain from your membership? - The Defiance County Chapter is always in need of public relations, so come to the meetings and find out what our society is about. Spread the word to people, let them know that we are an organization where they can always get some type of genealogical information. Please tell everyone you talk to about genealogy and about The Defiance County Chapter of the OGS.