Posted in Announcements
 June 1, 2021

SOCCGS Announcements for June 2021

The SOCCGS Genealogy Reference Center is now OPEN!

Library hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 12noon – 5pm, and Docents are on duty to help you with your genealogy research.

Masks are still required, and seating has been staggered to meet social distancing requirements.

While the library will no longer require appointments for patron visits, we will be using appointments for the genealogy computers. We expect that many of you will be eager to access those locked records on FamilySearch and our other databases which we haven’t been able to use for the last year. To avoid long waits to use the computers, we have set up an online appointment system for our two genealogy computers.

To make an appointment for our genealogy computers:

  • Go to https://collecting404s.com/computer-reservations/ or click on the drop-down menu for the Research Center from the black menu bar at the top of our website, and then choose Computer Reservations.
  • Because of social distancing requirements only 2 computers will be available. Computer reservation slots will depend upon docent staffing, and may not be available for every hour that the library is open.
  • Appointments will be booked for 55 minute periods.
  • To allow everyone a chance to do their research, there is a limit of one appointment per day, and only 2 appointments per week.
  • No appointment is necessary to use our print resources, but seating may not be available.
  • As always, our wonderful genealogy docents will be there to help you!

The Annual Seminar is coming in October 2021!

Mark your calendars – October 16, 2021! You do not want to miss this year’s big event. We are delighted to be able to confirm that we hit the jackpot regarding our featured speaker for our big annual seminar event in October! Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist, has agreed to be our speaker and provide our members with a four-session fabulous day with a wide array of topics to help us use legal records to find our ancestors.

Watch our Annual Seminar page for more information.

The Annual Salt Lake City Research Trip is returning in 2022!

Salt Lake City trip dates for 2022 are set for March 20-27, 2022. See more information in our website in the Events tab: Salt Lake City Research Trip.

Membership

Welcome new members! We’re so glad you have joined us! And just a friendly reminder to current members to please renew your membership promptly when you receive an email from Lynn Souers, our Membership Chair. For only $25/year ($30 joint membership) you will continue to receive access to our general meetings, guest speakers, and SIG’S plus our information-packed newsletter. That works out to $2.08 a month! What a great bargain!