IRGS Membership

Indian River Genealogical Society

Society News

Be sure to check the Calendar page for the latest information about meetings, programs, and seminars. The May 2008 newsletter is now available on the Newsletters page. Summer break is here; no meetings or newsletters until fall. Enjoy your summer and best of luck with your research projects.

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.

Click here for copy of the membership form

Membership benefits also include classes, workshops and seminars, monthly meetings with special programs, and individual help from society members. The Society currently has formed several Interest Groups.

For more information, please contact Marcia Eyberse, Membership Chair.

This page contains items of specific interest to the members of the society. To join the Indian River Genealogical Society, please see our Membership page for details.

Minutes of the Membership Meetings, 2007
January 2007	February 2007	March 2007	April 2007
May 2007	enjoy your summer
September 2007	October 2007	November 2007	December 2007

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IRGS Surname Registry

Once again we're collecting the surnames our members are researching. The information will be kept in a binder available for browsing at membership meetings. Email and phone notifications are also planned. Electronic filing is not yet available.

Click here for a printable form: surname_form.pdf

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 - underway

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. There is already great interest within the community for this project, which is very encouraging. Come and join us on this exciting project, headed up by Ellen Stanley.

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 chair 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.