Membership

PURPOSE: The NORTHWEST INDIANA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is a non-profit organization whose objectives are to collect, preserve and disseminate knowledge and information with reference to genealogy, history, biography and heraldry; to promote and sustain interest in the study of these fields; to pool interest and aid individual members of the Society; and to issue publications relating to genealogy.

MEMBERSHIP PERIOD: Membership year will expire on the last day of the month twelve [12] months from which dues were paid. Annual membership dues are not pro-rated to the calendar year.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

• Regular meetings held at 10:00 am on the third (3rd) Saturday of each month, January through November

• Programs and speakers of genealogical, historical and related areas of interest

• Bi-monthly newsletter – TWIGS – with free queries

• Networking opportunities

• Meetings held at area libraries 

• Volunteer projects such as cemetery reading and indexing of newsletters, obituaries or public records