Climbing your family tree? Cuyahoga West members can help!

Are you feeling the effects of wintertime cabin fever and looking for an escape? Perhaps, a trip to the past is the remedy. Members of the Cuyahoga West Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS) invite you to join their ranks and learn more about how to research your family history. A membership drive is currently underway.

This Chapter offers free help sessions from 1:00-2:30 p.m., on the first Wednesday of the month (except December, January, July and August), in the Computer Lab at Westlake Porter Public Library, 27333 Center Ridge Rd. Just bring what information you have collected thus far, on a particular ancestral line, to one of these help sessions. Members will help you extend your research, or get started on your journey. The next afternoon session will be Wednesday, March 7.  

If you are unable to attend the daytime sessions, an evening help session and genealogical roundtable discussion is being offered on Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 7:00-8:45 p.m., in the Porter Room at Westlake Porter Public Library. Evening programs are scheduled for the third Wednesday of the month (except August and December) and dues provide funding for guest speakers throughout the year.    

There is no charge for attending a meeting or a help session and you do not have to be a member. However, members do receive the added benefit of a quarterly newsletter, The Tracer, which includes notices of upcoming genealogical meetings and events, both local and national. Also, members are entitled to a 10% discount on chapter publications. Membership runs from January through December and dues are just $15, or $18 for two people at one address. For additional information, visit their website at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcwogs or email cuyahogawest@gmail.com.