IRGS Membership

Indian River Genealogical Society

Society News

The March 2010 Newsletter is now available. The next general meeting is Tuesday, Mar. 9, 2010. Be sure to check the Calendar page for the latest information about meetings, programs, and seminars.

This page contains items of specific interest to the members of the society.

Renew your membership and help support another year of interesting meetings, news and information, classes, special interest groups, and growth of the wonderful collection in the genealogy department at the Indian River County Library.

Click here for copy of the latest membership form. Don't forget to specify your surnames for the 2010 Surname Registry!

The Membership year runs from January 1st to December 31st.

The annual dues are $25.00 per family or household, which includes a subscription to The Indian River Genealogical Society Newsletter, the official journal of the Society.

Membership benefits:

Nine (9) digital issues of our newsletter, September through May
Nine (9) meetings per year featuring speakers on quality topics
Member's discount to Society workshops and our annual seminar
Free publications of queries and questions in our newsletter
Courtesy advertising for member-published works
Member's discount to periodic Society workshops
Camaraderie with many area residents and visitors who share your passion for genealogy
Notification of local, state, and national genealogical events
Consultation about your "brick walls" with our experienced members
Genealogical Interest Groups to explore specialized areas of common interest
Access to our Society's Web site including members-only features
Access to the IRGS surname registry (see our new Surnames page for more info)
Members-only email notification of special genealogical interest items
The chance to participate on special projects

For more information, please contact Marcia Eyberse, Membership Chair. memb...@irgs.org

IRGS Projects

In keeping with its charter responsibilities and objectives, the Indian River Genealogical Society, Inc., under the auspices of its Library Committee, conducts projects to protect and preserve the Society's scrap book, member's files and historical records pertinent to Indian River County, Florida, USA.

Cemeteries of Indian River County - COMPLETED

Post Card Book - COMPLETED

The IRGS is publishing a book through Arcadia Publishing, now in its fourth printing! It is a local history illustrated through the use of captioned post cards, drawn from the collections held in the Archive Center of the IRC Main Library, and from post cards in the private collection of Bruce Smith, on loan for this project.

Church Records of Indian River County - partially complete, leader needed!

The Church Records project goal is to get as many individual names connected with historical pre-1930 Indian River County churches as possible. For that to occur we need folks to approach various churches and request their cooperation in digging into their old membership rolls, especially the charter members so these names can be added to a data base created with the cooperation of the Indian River County Library. The names are published monthly in our newsletter and from there picked up by PERSI which makes the names, dates and church affiliation, city, county and state available to researchers anywhere in the world. Our cut off for dates is the same as the census, 1930 and back only. Over 40 churches have been identified thus far and about half of those have been approached. A chairperson is needed to spearhead the project, which has been underway for about two years now and has published hundreds of names and churches to date

	Celebration of our 20th Anniversary in 2003 with some of the founders.
Christmas program 2005 in the large meeting room of the library.
	Cindy Davis & Pete Kersey presenting the banner at the Florida State Genealogical Society Conference Nov 2005 in Panama City.