Oakland County Michigan Genealogical Society

07/02/2025

This Independence Day, we’re opening up a treasure trove of history. From July 3–5, 2025, enjoy free access to 151 million pages of historical U.S.

06/17/2025

The deadline for submissions for the third quarter issue of Acorns to Oaks is fast approaching. We are all enjoying Michigan's summer but hopefully you can send in your articles by July 1. Remember that our Editor, Jay R. Taylor, is happy to help if you need help.

Please send your articles to: qeditor@ocgsmi.org on ore before July 1.

Thank you.

06/13/2025

Great news from GSMC!

06/06/2025

Beware!!!

Phishing emails have been sent to some board members. They are sent from a Gmail address, but contain the signature line of our president .

Please be aware that no officer of our Society will send you an email asking for money, or gift cards, or selling anything.

The only items we have for sale are listed in our official store on our website: ocgsmi.org

Our official emails come from addresses which end in: .org.

Please send email from imposters to spam.

Thank you.

OCGS Board

The Oakland County (Michigan) Genealogical Society was founded in 1977 and is a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Donations, gifts and legacies are deductible. The Society promotes and encourages an interest in genealogy and related fields among its...

06/05/2025

Please read.

06/05/2025

More than 6 million people in North America have Swedish or Danish roots — and many more around the world. Whether your family came from Stockholm,

05/30/2025

Good news regarding the NY Stste death records.

Indexed data from more than ten million records from the state of New York for the years 1880-2017 have now been ordered released by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York. The court has also remanded the parties back to a lower court so that a judge may conduct an “in-camera...

05/26/2025

05/23/2025

All back issues of our quarterly, Acorns to Oaks are available to non-members for $5 each in the store on our website. Access them here: https://ocgsmi.org/products/ The surname index for all of our Quarterlies may help you decide about purchase and/or download. https://ocgsmi.org/acorns-to-oaks-public-surname-index/

As always, current members may download any Q of interest to them in the member's area of our site at no charge.

Due to increased postage costs and low inventory we are closing out our printed publications and will not mail them after November 1, 2023. We will continue to offer digital versions available for download. You have 48 hours to download your product. Please note that these publications are under cop...

05/20/2025

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05/08/2025

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