Rose City Area Historical Society

Benefits
Rose City Area Historical Society offers members:

·        Networking: Opportunities for genealogical and historical enthusiast to work with others to collect and preserve family and area resources for future generations.

·        Conferences, classes, workshops, and meetings to inspire, encourage, and assist in gathering data to identify family and their relationship to historical events.

·        Training in genealogical research

·        Speakers and Programs on family history, local history, and society functions

·        Resources: books, papers, microfilm, microfiche.

·        Experienced Researchers who will aid you in finding information.

·        Quarterly Newsletter/Monthly Bulletin

Rose City Area Historical Society offers those who are not members:

·        Help in finding information about the area and its history.

·        Notification of training and classes being offered by the organization.

·        Research for a nominal fee.

·        Access to resources housed in our research room.

·        Answers to inquires.

History of the society
''The Rose City Area Historical Society 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 research room" for the Society holdings and former Latter Day Saints History Library Genealogist Donnie Boursaw is available to assist researchers on Mondays and by appointment.''



Society Officers
President                  Cathy Snider

Vice-President           Richard Dooley

Secretary                  Carman Reetz-Bogart





Current Projects
Local volunteers help to collect, categorize and maintain the many local histories, photographs, genealogies, oral histories, alumni records, and newspaper clippings in Society files.

Working in conjunction with the Ogemaw County Clerk's office, Society members have duplicated marriage and death records and provide uncertified copies for a small fee.

Members have also compiled burial records for local Ogemaw cemeteries and are currently photographing tombstones at area 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. Rose City Society members are also developing and maintaining the free Michigan GenWeb Ogemaw site on-line

Answer questions when possible at several on-line genealogical message boards and by mail.







Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/207589139325398/

http://migenweb.org/ogemaw/



Publications
The Society has also published several booklets, which are available through the society:

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)

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)

LONE PINE FARM (written by Glendora McCracken Fitzgerald---growing up in Lupton)

IMAGES OF AMERICA - OGEMAW COUNTY (published by Arcadia Publishing-a history and pictorial representation of Ogemaw History)

PRESCOTT COMMUNITY IN PIONEER HISTORY (written by Ervadeen Hosbach)



Collections
Microfilm of Michigan Vital records from 1867 to about 1920, some earlier

Books, periodicals, gazetteers, history, records from all 50 States

French Canadian Collection

American Indian Collection/Michigan tribes

How-to and informational collection pertaining to research methods, technologies, societies

Family Histories

Yearbook Collection area High School

Events
Ogemaw County Fair August of each year

Fourth of July Parade

Annual Deer Hunters Bake Sale each November

Society Meetings
Meetings are held April through November (except for August)

Second Tuesday of each month at the Lion's Club Log Cabin:

Rose City Park

110 North Williams Street

Rose City. MI

Yearly membership dues are $10.00.

Address inquiries to:

RCAHS

P.O. Box 736

Rose City, MI 48654

Email or phone

rchistsoc@hotmail.com

ogemaw_mama@yahoo.com

rosecityhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

989-685-3083

989-345-1061

989-685-3083

Nearby or Alternate Repositories

 * Ogemaw County Genealogical and Historical Society
 * Ogemaw County Historical Museum
 * Roscommon County Genealogical Society
 * Huron Shores Genealogical Society
 * Arenac County Historical Society and Museum
 * Gladwin County Genealogical and Historical Society

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