Welcome!

The Larimer County Genealogical Society is pleased you have chosen to join us.

We put this page together to help new members familiarize themselves with all that the Society has to offer. If you don’t find answers to your questions here, contact the relevant Committe Chair or the President.

Meetings are on the third Thursday of the month, January through November. There is no meeting in December. The January meeting is the annual business meeting when officers are elected and the Society President gives his annual address. Meetings are held at the Community Room in the Fort Collins Regional Library District – Harmony Library, 4616 South Shields at Harmony Rd., Fort Collins.  Map

Transportation is available to take you to the meetings. If you want to attend the Larimer County Genealogical Society’s monthly meetings at the Harmony Library but do not have a means of transportation, don’t want to drive at night, or would just like some company to go with we have a group of volunteers ready to provide transportation. If you should need a ride, please contact Kathy Patrick at 206-1664 and she will arrange for someone to pick you up. 48 hours notice would be appreciated.

Society events and classes are listed monthly in the newsletter and on the website calendar. We host quite a few classes and workshops on genealogical topics like: Genealogy 101, Family Tree Maker User Group, Genealogy On the Internet and much more. In addition, all general meetings except the annual business meeting, have speakers who lecture on a broad range of genealogical topics. The calendar also shows programs sponsored by other organizations like Genealogy Conferences. We strive to keep our members informed of anything that might be interest to genealogists. You can also pick up flyers at the meetings regarding upcoming special events.

Our newsletter is issued bimonthly in January, March, May, July, September and November. You can view past issues of the newsletter on this website going back to 2003. The newsletter will keep you updated on Society events, and offer genealogy research tips. Hats off to Bob Larson, editor, Kareen Whatley, publisher, and Julian Hillan, in distribution who have done an excellent job developing and publishing the newsletter.

The membership term is January 1-December 31 so your membership will come up for renewel at the end of the year, regardless of when you joined. Renewal applications will be available online and at the general meetings.

A Membership Directory is published around May and will be available at the membership table at the general meetings. The directory includes a history of the Society, names and biographies of the Board Members, a list of Committees, and name, photograph and contact information for each member. As the publish date approaches, Society photographer Sonny Hygh will be at the meetings taking member’s photographs. if you aren’t able to make it to the meetings give Sonny a call and he can arrange a photograph session.

We are very proud to have eight of the original twenty charter members still active with our society: Carolyn & Jane Goodwin, Willa Ruth Jesser, Lois Johnson, Mary Kerbel, Robert and Roy Jean Marriam and Doris Rust. They have been faithful members of the Society since its inception thirty-five years ago.

Charter Members with current president Bob Larson (right)

Programs

View our Members Programs page to see the programs available to you through the Society.

Updated August 19, 2009