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    The Olympia Genealogical Society normally meets the 2nd Thursday of the month, September through June, at 7:00 pm. Meetings are held at the Thurston County Courthouse, Bldg 1, Room 152, unless noted otherwise.

    Scheduled Programs

    8 Sep 2011
     
    "Ancestral File in Today's Genealogy"
    Presented by Ed Swan
            and
    "The Genealogically Friendly GEDCOM File"
    Presented by Jerri McCoy



    13 Oct 2011 "Furthering Your Personal Genealogical Education"
    Presented by Steven Morrison


    10 Nov 2011 Civil War Battlefields: Heroes, Legends and Little Known Facts
    Presented by Jon Halvorson


    8 Dec 2011 Special Sharing of Stories
    by OGS members


    12 Jan 2012 "Writing Obituaries"
    Presented by Gary Foote


    9 Feb 2012
    Special Event
    Special Location
    Annual Dinner
    "I Found My Great-Grandparents' House...I Think!
    Presented by Jim Haran


    8 Mar 2012
    "Using Google and Google Earth for Genealogical Research"
    Jim Johnson, Heritage Quest Research Library Director


    12 Apr 2012 No General Meeting
    Come to our Seminar on April 14th!


    10 May 2012 "Forgotten Children"
    Infant mortality and disease took the lives of many children in the past. If they didn't make it on to any official records, how do we find them?
    Presented by Diana Bargmann


    14 Jun 2012 "Papers, Books and Bibles: Saving your Treasures for Ages to Come"
    Presented by Gudrun Aurand, Book and Paper Preservationist/Conservationst