Advantages of Membership

Membership

The GTAGS membership year is June thru May. Projects Dues are $15 per person or $20 per family. Memberships paid after March will be credited to • Historical Certificates (suitable for framing) the coming year. GTAGS offers an Ancestral Family Certificate to people who can provide documentation Advantages of Membership from an ancestor living in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, or Leelanau • Monthly genealogical programs. Counties over 100 years ago. • Four issues of the GTAGS Kinship The price is $8.00 Tales newsletter. An Early Settler Certificate is also offered to persons who can provide documentation of Objectives their ancestor’s residence, for the counties • Promote an interest in genealogy. listed above, before 1860. • Teach genealogical research using careful The price is $8.00 documentation and the preservation of quality genealogical standards. • Cemeteries • Publish genealogical and historical data in the GTAGS has an ongoing project of reading, Kinship Tales newsletter. transcribing, and updating databases for • Build and maintain a genealogical collection cemeteries in the Grand Traverse area. that is available to the public. • Genealogical Research GTAGS researchers will do genealogical Newsletter research in any county in our service area. The price is $15.00 per hour plus expenses. • GTAGS newsletter, Kinship Tales, is published four times each year and contains • Obituaries genealogical news and information. A photocopy of an area obituary may be • Genealogy queries in the newsletter are ordered for $3.00 each plus a SASE. welcome. The obituary collection is now housed at the • If you have items of interest, send them to: History Center of Traverse City located at 322 Kinship Tales Editor, GTAGS, POB 2015, Sixth Street, Traverse City. Phone numbers are: Traverse City, Michigan 49685-2015 231 995-0314 or Archives at 231 929-7663. The collection is open to the public during hours the Volunteering Archives is open. Volunteers are always welcome. We have many jobs – large and small. GTAGS helps in the Oakwood Cemetery genealogy section of the Traverse Area District The Oakwood Cemetery office is located at 806 Library and at the LDS Family History Center. Hastings Street, Suite J. The phone number is We have many committees that would benefit 231 922 4907. The cemetery is located a short from your help. By spreading the jobs around it distance away on E. Eighth Street. will make a light load for everyone. Consider lending a hand. Vital Records Grand Traverse Traverse Area District Library 610 Woodmere, Traverse City, MI Grand Traverse County marriage and death Phone: 231- 932-8500 indexes are available at: www.co.grand- Area Genealogical www.tadl.org traverse.mi.us/services/online_records.htm. Hours: Mon-Thurs 9 am – 9 pm Fri-Sat 9 am – 6 pm Actual records may be viewed at the Grand Society, INC. Sunday 12 pm – 5 pm Traverse County Clerk’s Office. The office is located at the Governmental Center, First Floor Microfilm copies of area newspapers are 400 Boardman Avenue, Traverse City, Michigan. available at the Traverse Area District Library Phone: 231-922-4760. Their hours are Monday thru Friday 8:30 am - 12 pm and 2 pm - 4:30 pm POB 2015 The Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society Traverse City, MI 49685-2015 has contributed over 2.000 books, many reels of microfilm, microfiche and CD-ROMs on various GTAGS Cemetery Databases: subjects. GTAGS contributions include microfilm Please be advised that future sales of the copies of Oakwood Cemetery burial records and cemetery databases will be done in an area obituaries. Grand Traverse cemetery “electronic format” only. This makes for a books include Acme, Blair, Evergreen/Sparling, speedy cost effective transaction plus allows the Fife Lake/Union, Green Lake/Long Lake, purchaser to choose what information they Mayfield, Peninsula and Whitewater Townships. would like to receive i.e. an electronic copy of Leelanau cemetery books include Cleveland and previously published but now updated CD Solon/Elmwood Townships. Missaukee and (Leelanau County, Grand Traverse Rural or Wexford County cemetery books are also Oakwood cemeteries) would each cost $35.00 available. Area newspaper indexes are and would be sent to an email address. available at the research desk. A large However, a purchaser could request just a collection of French Canadian materials have specific surname, a specific cemetery, etc; the also been donated. minimum price would be $5.00. Of course, as with all the GTAGS publications these are the GTAGS meetings are: work product of GTAGS and thereby LDS Family History Center copyrighted (you cannot share your electronic The 3rd Thursday of each month at 3746 Veterans Drive, Traverse City copy with anyone else). The electronic files are 1pm, March thru November. 231 947-4646 in Excel format. If you have questions or wish to Call for current hours. place an order, contact me at [email protected] or 231-941-0547. Meetings are held at the Church of Kathi Farley, Cemetery Chairperson, GTAGS Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Northwestern Michigan College 3746 Veterans Drive Osterlin Library 1701 E. Front Street Traverse City, Michigan www.gtags.org Traverse City, Michigan College library also has microfilm copies of area June 2013 Public is welcome to attend! newspapers.