From 1980-2000 the Branch published its newsletter The Searchlight; from 2000-2005 the newsletter was published jointly in the Quinte-Kin. In 2006 the Branch returned to independent publishing with the launch of The New Searchlight which is issued four times a year in March, June, September and December and is jam-packed with articles of interest to all genealogists.

Articles and queries are most welcome and can be mailed or emailed to Quinte Branch OGS, c/o Editor. Contact us.

In addition to ongoing branch news that includes Reports from the Chair and Regional Director, Upcoming Events, Annual Reports, Queries, Additions to the Library, Indexing News, Book Reviews and Members' Surnames Interests the newsletter contains many feature articles submitted by members from near and far.

Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2009
The Palatine Exodus from Germany • Brick Wall Breakthroughs TUTTLE-CRONKHITE • Grave Undertakings: Ainsworth Funeral Home, Wellington, Ontario: A Five-Generation Family Enterprise • Assisted Emigration from Coolattin, Wicklow • Exploration of the Relationship Between the United Empire Loyalists and Freemasonry in Upper Canada, now Ontario • Websites worth Surfing

Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2008
"Damned Rascal" Captain John Walden Myers • Brick Wall Breakthroughs MEEHAN-McGEE, O'NEILL, BUSH, POST-KELLER • Hastings County Cemetery Transcriptions • Websites worth Surfing • Janet Kellough Presents • War Memorial Inscriptions • Historic Cemeteries Sporting New Look • A Genealogist's Night Before Christmas • 2008 Member's Surname Interests

Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2008
12 Google Search Tips for Genealogists • Muster Roll of the Hastings County Flank Co. 1812 • War Memorial Inscriptions • Members Websites • 1881 and 1891 Digitized Census Returns Online • Methodists and Their Many Branches • Brick Wall Breakthroughs KEATING • Quinte Branch Outreach at Work

Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2008 
Sher Leetooze on Northern Ireland Research  • Brick Wall Breakthroughs BROWN, AMSBARY • Quinte Branch Outreach at Work • Stirling's 150th Anniversary  • The Ancient Order of Bedillii  • The Prince Edward Courthouse and Jail  • Hastings County Migrations to Western Canada

Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2008 
Quinte Branch Library Gets a Major Boost with Trillium Grant • Brick Wall Breakthroughs GRAHAM-SWEET, SELEY/SEELEY • Alternate Death Resources from Paul McGrath • Did You Inherit more than the Family Farm, Part II • Stirling's 150th Anniversary • So You Think You Might Be a UEL Descendant? • The Loyalists in our Area

Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2007 
Lisa Russell Brings the AODA to Quinte • Genealogy 101 Grows on Website • Brick Wall Breakthroughs POLLEY • Library and Archives Canada New Search Tools • Genealogy DNA Testing and Family Crests • What's In a (Quinte) Name • The Creation of the Anniversary Book, St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Read, Ontario: 1854-2004  • 2007 Members Surname Interests.

Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2007 
Quinte Branch Searchable Names Index Online • Do You Have a Brick Wall? • Quinte Branch Connects with James and Ethel Barry of Stirling • Researching Quaker Ancestors in Quinte • Caverley DNA Project • The Marchmont Distributing Home • Chisholm's Mill Celebrates it's 150th Anniversary.

Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2007 
A Visit from Orland French • Manorial Records  • Local Rum Runners • Stirling is Celebrating 150 Years in 2008 • The Hungerford Township Smallpox Epidemic of 1884 • The Adventure of a Pioneer Family : Duhamel / Hamel / Amell.

Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2007 
Annual Crouse-Wanamaker Lecture • Quinte Disaster: The Trenton Explosion • Hastings County Heritage Atlas • Did You Inherit More Than The Family Farm? Dolmetsch, Dollmetsch, Dolmatsch, Dollmatsch, Dolmage, Dulmage, Dalmadge, Delmage, Delmege Family • Smith Sabbath School Pocket Bible • Being Creative with Troublesome Kin.

Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2006
A Smith Family Bible Wants to Go Home • Heritage Years (Stirling History) • Cleaning Tombstones • Research Letters • Memorial Ronald Ryan Taylor • Is This Your Family (James Alfred Elliott and Charlotte Helen Beatty) • Finding Family at the Quinte Branch Research Library • Osprey Newspaper Obituaries Online  • The Course of Justice in the 1890s .

Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2006
Found, Pedigree of John Vowles Palmer • Mary Janeway: The Legacy of a Home Child • Birth Registrations in Ontario • The Canadian Vital Record Closure Gap • Snake Oil and Cure-Alls for Quinte's Pioneers • Our New Home at Quinte West Public Library.

Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2006
Quinte Branch Is On The Move! • Let’s Bring Our Ancestors Back to Life  •  Reconnecting • Rawdon Township Historical Transcripts • What Did They Do? •  Hastings Gets a New Atlas • Quinte Holidays—Victorian Style • Your Families History  • This Early Canadian Rector Even Had a Boulder Named After Him.

Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2006
Using a Spreadsheet to Record your Research Findings • Gravestone Symbolism •  Planning a Family Reunion • The Formation of the Presbyterian Church in Wallbridge •  Burials in St. George’s Churchyard • Who was Wiliamena Vanderdank? • Keep to the Known Facts.