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It’s Time to Renew Your Membership for 2025!

Please visit the Membership Information page for a downloadable membership form to mail in with your payment, or to use PayPal.

Membership is on a calendar-year basis, with no partial year rates or proration; however, renewals or new memberships received in November 2024 or later will be effective immediately and remain valid through December 2025.

Our Meeting Calendar:

All meetings will be hybrid (in-person at South Hills Business School, plus virtual by Zoom), unless otherwise noted. Meetings begin promptly at 7:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Meetings are free and open to the public. As a benefit of membership, members will be emailed a Zoom link to view the meeting remotely. Everyone is welcome to join the Society to enjoy this benefit.

Thursday, March 6, 2025, 7:00 PM: “Use of AI in Genealogical Research,” Marsha Tate.

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 7:00 PM: “Centre County’s Civil War Black Soldiers,” William Blair, Ph.D.

Thursday, May 1, 2025, 7:00 PM: “Help! I Don’t Speak the Language: Tips and Tricks for Deciphering Foreign Language Records,” Katherine Schober Owner of Germanology Unlocked.

Thursday, June 5, 2025, 7:00 PM: “Using Pennsylvania Land and Tax Records,” Justin Houser, Esq.

Thursday, July 10, 2025, 7:00 PM (NOT the first Thursday): “To Be Announced,” Lee Stout.

Thursday, August 7, 2025, 7:00 PM: “DNA,” Joyce Furfaro, Ph.D.

Programs happen with input and help from members. Are you interested in sharing your knowledge or stories or successes and puzzles with us? Do you have topics that you would like to learn more about? Can you pitch in to help the Program Committee? Contact (president@centrecountygenealogy.org).

News & Reminders:

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The Index to the CCGS Cemetery Series is online and free to the public!

Members, past issues of Roots newsletters and various informational handouts from past meetings are available in our Members-Only section of the website.

Members, the Society welcomes contributions for the newsletter from our members: interesting historic photos or newspaper items, articles about families, summaries of research finds, queries, etc. Please contact our Newsletter Editor, if you have something you would like to submit.

CCGS funding (your dollars) has helped the Pennsylvania State University Libraries digitize and upload for FREE viewing and searching at Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive:

Democratic Watchman (Bellefonte, Pa.), 1871-1923
Centre Hall Reporter/Centre Reporter, from December 1914 to August 1928