OGEMAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN


GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES

The Ogemaw Genealogical & Historical Society was incorporated in 1978 as a non-profit organization. Dedicated to preserving the history of Ogemaw County and its families, their goals are to collect and preserve materials which may illustrate the history of the area. The Ogemaw Society owns a split stone building which houses the county historical museum. This museum is located at 123 South Fifth Street in West Branch. The museum is open Thursday and Friday from 10-2 during the summer months. Admission is free and anyone wishing more information or to schedule a private tour at a different time should call the Curator at 989/345-2829.

Society meetings are open to the public and are held the first Tuesday of the month April thru December at 7:00 p.m. Society members are willing to help with research needs or family history.

Please address any inquiries to:

OGEMAW GENEALOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
POST OFFICE BOX 734, WEST BRANCH, MI 48661


The Rose City Area Historical Society, Inc. was incorporated in July, 1983 as a non-profit organization for the purpose of identifying and collecting historical information and preserving family genealogies and histories. Since it's inception in 1983, the Society has accumulated extensive historical data including microfilms of all available County Newspapers. The Ogemaw District Library in downtown Rose City has provided a "historical room" for the Society holdings and local volunteers help to collect, categorize and maintain the many local histories, photographs, genealogies, oral histories, alumni records, and newspaper clippings in Society files.

Members have worked to record burials in local Ogemaw cemeteries and are currently photographing tombstones at three burial grounds. Members also help to clean and maintain abandoned early cemeteries. Indexes are being compiled of the earliest newspapers (births, deaths and marriages), early county records, and burials. The Society has also published three booklets: CIVIL WAR LETTERS (Written by Sgt. Major Charles H. Church to his parents at Williamston, Michigan); ROSE CITY, MICHIGAN, 100 YEARS, 1905-2005 (a pictorial history for the Centennial Celebration of that town's incorporation); BROOKSIDE CEMETERY INDEX (providing names, dates, and lot numbers for Ogemaw's largest cemetery); PHEBE IN WONDERLAND (Written by Phebe Dunlap Cotton and reprinted with photos---Her memories of growing up in Lupton, Michigan); NELL'S STORY OF LONG AGO (written by Helen Migan--Memories of the Prescott area); and LONE PINE FARM (written by Glendora McCracken Fitzgerald---growing up in Lupton)--all booklets are available through the Society.

Rose City Society members are also developing and maintaining the free Michigan GenWeb Ogemaw site on-line; and answer questions when possible at several on-line genealogical message boards and by mail. Meetings are held April through November on the second Tuesday of each month at the Ogemaw District Library, 107 West Main Street, Rose City. Yearly membership dues are $10.00.

Please address any inquiries to:

ROSE CITY AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
POST OFFICE BOX 736, ROSE CITY, MI 48654


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