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General meetings of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society are free and open to the public. They are held on the first Monday of each month in the Chesapeake Event Center, Oklahoma History Center, 2401 N. Laird Ave., Oklahoma City. [click here for a printable map & directions]
In case of conflict with a federal or state holiday, the meetings will be held on the second Monday evening of each month.
Experienced researchers will be available before the meeting at 5 P.M. to answer research questions. The OGS meeting begin at 6:00 P.M. and finish at 7:45 P.M. The Oklahoma History Research Library is also open until 7:45 P.M. on the evenings when OGS meets.
Upcoming Monthly Programs
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12 July 2010 Monday 6:00 pm OGS General Meeting
"Official Records of the Civil War"
Speaker: June Stone
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2 Aug 2010 Monday 6:00 pm OGS General Meeting
"DAR Records & Brick Wall Strategies"
Speaker: Pat McFall
Click here to learn more about this program and the speaker
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13 Sep 2010 Monday 6:00 pm OGS General Meeting
"Scrapbooks vs. Archival Preservation"
Speaker: Jeanne Prince, MLIS, CA
Mrs. Prince will explain the difference between scrapbooking and preserving documents and photographs. She will show examples of what to use for archiving photographs, as well as records, journals, and books.
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4 Oct 2010 Monday 6:00 pm OGS General Meeting
"Oklahoma, the Melting Pot of America
& Patterns of Settlement"
Speaker: Dr. Bob Blackburn, PhD
Oklahoma may be known as the melting pot of America, a place where various ethnicities and cultures come to live. Dr. Blackburn will discuss settlement patterns and shifts in migration throughout Oklahoma’s history.
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1 Nov 2010 Monday 6:00 pm OGS General Meeting
"Land Runs, Lotteries and Homesteading"
Speaker: Billie Stone Fogarty, MEd
In Oklahoma’s history, there were several Land Runs and Lotteries in which people could stake their land claim in pre-statehood Oklahoma. Billie will present these along with how these people settled their land.
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6 Dec 2010 Monday 6:00 pm OGS General Meeting
"The Southern Historical Papers &
Confederate Service Records Digitization
Project"
Speaker: Jan Davis & Paul Quillin
Paul Quillin will speak about The Southern Historical Papers. These were published from 1869 thru 1950s, and are a 52 volume set of records containing Confederate reminiscences and analyses of their war experiences.
A coordinator for the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, Jan Davis will speak about the most recent digitization project taken on by the Oklahoma State Archives: Confederate Service Records of Civil War.
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Directions to the Oklahoma History Center located
at the northeast corner of the state capitol complex at N.E. 23rd and N.
Lincoln Blvd.
1 - turn north from 23rd Street at the first street east of the capitol
2 - turn east at the stop light at N.E. 28th and Lincoln then south on Lindsay to the Oklahoma History Center parking
lot.
click on Map to enlarge
