There are many committees and events that our members can volunteer within our society. We have the following committees that members can join at their pleasure: Archival, Budget & Finance, Education, FamilySearch Indexing, Library Book, Membership, Newsletter, Outreach, Publications, Publicity, Recycled Goods, Researchers, Research Projects, and Website. All committee chairs attend five Board meetings per year to give reports and help the Board with new ideas or resolving problems regarding their committees.
Archival Committee
The Archival Committee consists of the chair and our society scrapbook collector. The chair is responsible for archiving our important documents and scrapbook. The scrapbook collector takes photos and collects all important information on past society events and updates the society scrapbook.
Budget & Finance Committee
The Budget & Finance committee has three to four members with a finance related background. They review all financial and legal issues at the Board’s request on an as needed basis. This committee includes the treasurer.
Education Committee
The Education Committee meets two to three times per year to organize new classes and workshops for the new year. This committee includes a chair and several members interested in educating our members and the general public.
FamilySearch Indexing Committee
The FamilySearch Indexing Committee works with the Colorado Council of Genelaogical Societies as a collaboration project with the FamilySearch website organization. Committee members can index and/or arbitrate all indexing projects relating to the state of Colorado and earn points and prizes.
Library Book Committee
The Library Book Committee recommends books to our libraries at Fort Collins, Loveland, and Windsor. They review the latest genealogy and family history books and make recommendations of the most popular books to the genelaogy librarian at these lobraries.
Membership Committee
The Membership Committee meets several times per year with other committees as needed to attract visitors and new members. Several committee members attend all general meetings to sign-in members and visitors. The chair updates monthly membership and visitor reports for the Board.
Newsletter Committee
The newsletter committee is responsible for the bi-monthly newsletter editions and membership directory. The committee includes the newsletter editor, publisher, and distribution volunteers. They meet two or three times a year to review the newsletter and membership directory. The newsletter editor creates the newsletters and sends the digital editions to members, while the publisher does the newsletter design and layout, and the distribution team mails the printed newsletters to members.
Outreach Committee
The Outreach Committee meets once per year to organize the annual Girl Schout Heritage Badge program with different junior girl scout troops in Larimer County. This committee needs a chair to organize other outreach events.
Publicity Committee
The Publicity Committee is responsible for notifying the members and the public of all society events. They send email notifications to members of all events, poster and flyers to libraries and other institutions.
Publications Committee
The Publications Committee is responsible for printing and sending brochures to the other committees, filling orders for society publications to libraries or other institutions, and displaying our various society items at our general meetings to lend out to our members.
Recycle Table
What genealogist doesn’t have a stack of old genealogy of magazines laying around their house? Waste not, want not. Members or visitors can drop off old magazines and journals at the recycle table at the general meetings for resale at very low prices. Our recycled table usually has a large selection of popular magazines like Family Tree Magazine, Heritage Quest and Internet Genealogy available, so be sure to browse the table when you’re at the meeting. The table usually is available at alternate meetings.
Research Projects Committee
The Research Projects Committee creates new research projects every year. They are currently working on researching and indexing several smaller cemeteries in Larimer County. Eventually, another publication will be created for sale to other societies and libraries.
Website Committee
The Website Committee consists of our webmasters and members interested in promoting our website for educational purposes and marketing of our society website and Facebook page. They meet several times per year to review add new webpages or new programs as required by the Board.
If you would like to participate in any of our committees, please contact the chairperson of that committee.