OGS Events

Crystal Hicks: Bureaucracy to the Rescue: Unlocking Family Mysteries with State Records

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1925 Boulevard Rd SE, Olympia, WA.

The Recordings and Handouts page has links to the recording and handout (must be logged in to your OGS account), available indefinitely. 

Billie Stone Fogarty: Researching American Indian Ancestry

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1925 Boulevard Rd SE, Olympia, WA.

A recording and handout from the meeting were available to OGS members for one month after the meeting.

Roxanne Lowe: Researching in the Evergreen State

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1925 Boulevard Rd SE, Olympia, WA. 

The Recordings and Handouts page has links to the recording and handout (must be logged in to your OGS account), available indefinitely.

Karen Wallace Steely: Bounders, Bigamists, and Grass Widows: Using Divorce Records in Genealogical Research

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1925 Boulevard Rd SE, Olympia, WA. 

A recording and handout from the meeting were available to OGS members for one month after the meeting.

David McDonald: For Whom Are You Writing? A Guide to Genealogy Compilations

A recording and handout from the meeting were available to OGS members for one month after the meeting.

J. Mark Lowe: Finding Uncle John's Grist Mill, His Neighbors and That Cemetery Using Maps, Records and Stories

A recording and handout from the meeting were available to OGS members for one month after the meeting.

Join us for our annual holiday party! OGS members and their immediate family are welcome. Please bring your contributions of savory and sweet snacks for our potluck (please, no items that require refrigeration). OGS will provide paper goods, cutlery and beverages (or bring your own).

We could use volunteers for set up at 12:30 pm and for clean up after 3 pm. Hope to see you all there!

Helen Edwards, "Transcribing My Father-in-law's Naval Journals"

A recording and handout of the meeting were available to OGS members through 22 December 2025.