GUERNSEY COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Promoting genealogy through preservation, research and education
New 2024 Hours
Library hours:
Wednesday 10-5 pm
Thursday 10-5 pm
TRACE YOUR ROOTS
We are volunteers who love genealogy. It is our goal to make available genealogy & history to those seeking information. We can assist you in your research. Guernsey County Genealogical Society is non profit. These research dollars help us to preserve history for the next generation.
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Research fee $20 per hour
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Copies .25 / Copies of legal documents $1.00
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Photographs $1.00
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Membership- Single $15 per year/Couple $20 per year
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Lifetime Membership-$300.
PROGRAMS
Programs are free to attend. We offer a wide variety of programs year-round. No reservations are required.
*** Reservations are required for our First Family & Pioneer Family Banquet.
*** DNA Programs-Registration Required
First Families & Pioneer Families are Guernsey County's lineage society. For inclusion into First Families, your ancestor must have lived here before 1830. For inclusion into Pioneer Families your ancestor must have lived here prior to 1850. To be included into these lineage societies, you must prove the connection between you and the stated ancestor. Sources used for documentation are birth, marriage, and death records. Land records and wills may also be used.
For more information about the cemetery tours, or any of our programs, watch our Facebook page.
Questions: don't hesitate to contact us.
Email-gccogs@frontier.com
Phone- 740-432-9249
RESOURCES
Birth/Death Records
Family Histories
Probate Records
Common Pleas Records
Land Records
County Histories
Photographs
Obituaries
Newspapers
Township Records
Tax Records
School Records
Coal Mine Records
Funeral Home Records
Church Records
Cemetery Records
We also have publications for sale. These will be added to our website in the future.
2024
THE YEAR OF THE CEMETERY
This year we are concentrating on our county cemeteries. We are searching for lost or forgotten burials. It may be a single burial, family plot or an entire cemetery.
It is important to capture the information from worn tombstones before it lost forever. Recognizing veterans burials and coordinating that information with the VFW and Veterans Agency.
Over the years we have gained a lot of new information about how to clean and care for tombstones without any damage. We would like to share this information and gain new volunteers to help with these projects.
If you are interested in volunteering or have information regarding burials and cemeteries please contact us. We would love to work with you to help preserve this information.
Stay tuned for more information!
We don't own our family history. We simply preserve it for the next generation.
Rosemary Alva
CONTACT
GUERNSEY COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
