We meet on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7 p.m.

For more information on joining our virtual meetings, please email:

meetings@loraincoogs.org

2026

December 14 - TBA

November 9 - TBA

October 12 – TBA

 

September 14 Gedmatch – Patty Huff Williams

 

August 10 – Native Ohio Tribe Migrations – Billie Jo Fogarty

 

July – NO MEETING

 

June 8 – Storms of 1913 & Shipwrecks on Lake Erie – Matt Weisman

 

May 8 – Michigan Online – Kris Rzepczynski

 

April 13 – Researching New England Town Records Prior to 1850 – Eric Johnson

 

March 9 – WWII Women Reporters – Beryl Prusinoski

 

February 9 – Researching Your Scottish Ancestors/Roots – Stephen Wendt

 

January 12 – Bring it to the Table – Bring your genealogical breakthroughs/finds to our meeting to share with others

 

 

2025

 

December 8 – Stephen Wendt – A Mysterious Baby, A Brick Wall, A Decisive DNA Discovery

 

November 10 – Eric Johnson – Researching Your War of 1812 Ancestor

 

October 13 – Ethan West – Prominent African American Citizens of Elyria, Ohio

 

September 8 - TBA

 

August 11 – Annette Burke Lyttle – Our Quaker Ancestors: Their History and the Records They Left

 

July – No Meeting

 

June 9 – Drew Smith – Ancestry DNA: Matches & Thrulines

 

May 12 – Kate Penney Howard – Facts and Fables: Crafting Your Family Narrative

 

April 14 – Thomas MacEntee – Creating Ancestor Sketches Using AI

 

March 10 – Show and Tell – Bring a family heirloom to the meeting and share its story with us.

 

February 10 – Ethan West – A Journey to find my Ancestors

 

January 13 – Stephen Wendt – Expanding Your Prussian Search: Beyond Church Records – Rescheduled from November 2024.

 

2024

December 9 – Cyndi Ingle – The Hidden Web – Digging Deeper – Rescheduled from April

 

November 11 – Stephen Wendt – Expanding Your Prussian Search: Beyond Church Records

 

October 14 – Scott Norrick – Germans to Amerca’s Midwest 1848-1900

 

September 9 – Jim Beidler – Digging PA Roots from your desktop

 

August 12 – Amy Bower Tennant – TBD

 

July 8 – NO MEETING

 

June 10 – Margaret Cheney – Have You Written Your Story Yet?

 

May 13 – Thomas MacEntee – AI and Genealogy – Trouble Ahead?

 

April 8 – Cyndi Ingle – The Hidden Web – Digging Deeper – rescheduled to December 2024

 

March 11 – Peggy Lauritzen – Faith of our Fathers

 

February 12 – Margaret Cheney -  Wills/Estates on Ancestry and Family Search

 

January 8 – Kelly Boyer Sagert – Wells Waite Miller – Forgotten Civil War Hero

 

 

2023

 

December 11 – Christina L Drain – “If Walls Could Talk”

 

November 13 – Sandra Ruth – “Being Creative at the Library”

 

October 9 – Owen M McCafferty, III of Saleker and Co. – Basics of Polish Genealogy in Russia Poland 

 

September 16 – Celebrate 40 years as an OGS Chapter – an Open House from 2-4 pm will be held at the North Ridgeville Library. Light refreshments. Please join us.

 

September 11 – Margaret Cheney – Benefits of Sharing DNA

 

August 14 – Adam Matthews – Railroads of Lorain County

 

July – NO MEETING

 

June 12 Jill and Kate from Gravestone Restoration Services talk about cleaning and restoring gravestones.

 

May 8 Jill Morelli – Whether the Weather – A program about how the weather affected our ancestors in their daily lives.

 

April 10 – Margaret Cheney – You CAN Find Your Ancestors in the Census Records

 

March 13 – Lauren Kuntzman – Introduction to Online Research in Alsace-Lorraine.

 

February 13 – Tom Neel – Until Death Do Us Part – Marriage & Divorce Records of the 1800’s

 

January 9 – Scott Norrick – Lorain County In the 1950 Census – an in-depth look.