On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 the Oakland County Genealogical Society is pleased to present a program titled “Libris: Baptismorum, Matrimoniorum, et Defunctorum” by Ceil Wendt Jensen.  Ms. Jensen is a Certified Genealogist and the owner of MIpolonia.net.  Many
researchers find their family lines eventually lead to Latin records
maintained by the Catholic Church. Missionaries and immigrants brought
their religion from Europe to points around the globe including North
and South America. This program will describe the various types of

The Society would like to encourage you to join in the nationwide indexing party which will commence when the 1940 census is released on April 2, 2012. The Society suggests you sign up as an indexer as a member of a group who will be conducting projects indexing Michigan records. If you do not already belong to a group, we suggest you join the Michigan Genealogical Council Group.  The instructions below will explain how you can do this.

Please take a survey on use of genealogical software on Survey Monkey. Our program chairman is interested in this information.

Click to access the survey

Please do not take the survey more than once, even if you are notified by several communication channels.

Thanks for helping!

On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 the Oakland County Genealogical Society is pleased to present a program titled “DNA and Genealogy Introduction” by Roberta Estes. Ms. Estes, the founder of DNAExplain.com, will teach us about how DNA can be used for genealogical research. You’ll learn about how DNA testing works for both males and females. She’ll make science understandable, and by the end of this lecture, you’ll be putting together your own genealogical DNA test plan. Bring your pedigree chart along for quick reference. Please join us for this interesting and informative presentation.

What if:

1. The Social Security Death Index were no longer available online or
2. Birth certificates in every state were not made public for 125 years, nor death certificates, marriages and divorce records available until after 75 years?

Please go to the Federation of Genealogical Society website and read these articles listed below regarding threats to records access. If you do not have a lot of time, the shorthand is that there is great danger of  access to these resources being lost.

Please plan to attend the Society meeting on 7 February 2012 at 7 p.m.

Thanks to Joan Pate, and the estate of Joan Belanger, our library has received some useful additions. The attached file lists only the additions, you may also view the entire catalog, and find out more about our library on the library page.

The January, 2012 meeting of the Society will be on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 2:00pm at Christ Church Cranbrook, 470 Church St. in Bloomfield Hills (from Woodward, take Lone Pine Rd. west to the Church).  Please save the date for our annual meeting with the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research.

Mr. Curt Witcher, Manager of the Historical Genealogy Department of the Allen County Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana will speak on the topic, "And the Rockets’ Red Glare: Online Resources for War of 1812 Research.”

Further information will be posted later.

If you have missed the recent news about changes in access to the Social Security Death Index, you may read about it on Dick Eastman's blog.

Shirley J. Reeve, a Society member has compiled an aid to finding the burials listed in the older Oak Hill Cemetery book.

The document is available for download in the Free Genealogical Data section, or you may go directly to the page.