On June 14th, 1980 the Quinte Branch was chartered as the 18th branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) covering the Bay of Quinte area that includes Hastings, Prince Edward and southeastern Northumberland Counties in Ontario, Canada. The branch celebrated its 30th Anniversary on June 19, 2010. Nearly 400 members include those who have roots in the Bay of Quinte area and those who live locally with roots elsewhere.

Quinte OGS is a non-profit organization with three major goals:
- to encourage participation in genealogical activities
- to assemble and preserve the family histories and research material;
- to assist family history researchers at the branch library and by correspondence.

The Quinte Branch Executive for 2012. Back row, L-R: Marilyn Harry, Clare Westheuser, Lynn Heale, Rodney Green, Tracey Cuddington, Larry McQuoid; Front row, L-R: Peter Johnson, Bob Dawes, Ann Pumple, Stacy Goddard, Mary Culloden, Carole Foshay. Absent: Richard Hughes, Lewis Zandbergen, Lois Duggan, Tina Gemmell, Harriet Richards and Noreen Smith.

2012 Executive and Committees

Chair: Peter Johnson UE
Vice-Chair: Open
Past Chair: Richard Hughes
Treasurer: Larry McQuoid
Secretary: Clare Westheuser
Cemeteries/Research: Rod Green
Database & IT/Indexing: Bob Dawes
Historian: Noreen Smith
Indexing: Marilyn Harry
Librarian: Stacy Goddard
Membership: Lynn Heale
Newsletter: Lewis Zandbergen
Photographer: Harriet Richards
Programme: Clare Westheuser
Publications: Tracey Cuddington
Publicity: Mary Culloden
Research/Cemeteries: Dick Hughes
Social Convenor: Lois Duggan
Webmaster: Tina Gemmell

Region VII Director: Carole Foshay

Members-at-Large

Our volunteers enjoy interacting and exchanging information with other genealogists; improving their knowledge and research skills; furthering their personal research; and having lots of fun. Whether you live locally or afar you can become involved in branch activities that include, but are not limited to:

• indexing the library holdings for the Names Index Database project
• staffing the research library
• writing articles for the newsletter (you can share your ideas and experiences, or publish the results of your research)
• transcribing cemeteries
• assisting at events