Orangeburgh District DNA Project

09/23/2021

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2021/09/21/civil-war-maps-from-the-army-corps-of-engineers-now-digitized/?fbclid=IwAR3-vHDU3r0zpDjurTSoadK6DyRKO8yGTmHBoMc4i3wXFcnmMgDq9SokpZA

Civil War era and related maps from the Army Corps of Engineers have been digitized and are available to view and download from the National Archives Catalog. The records are part of the Civil Work…

09/25/2019

It’s TIME to register for Oktoberfest, 2019! https://www.ogsgs.org/oktbrfest/

09/25/2019

It’s TIME to reserve your family research or poster presentation table at Oktoberfest! Your project description will be published in the next OGSGS Newsletter.
https://www.ogsgs.org/oktbrfest/2019PartReg.pdf

07/23/2019

Oktoberfest, 2019 Online Registration is OPEN!
October 11th and 12th

Oktoberfest is the annual meeting of the Orangeburgh German-Swiss Genealogical Society. Usually held on a Friday and Saturday in mid-October it is a forum where researchers come together to have fun and share sources of genealogical materials and good food. It is a perfect opportunity to meet fellow...

09/10/2018

09/09/2018

OKTOBERFEST, 2018.
Bret Holcomb, author of The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, will be displaying for sale his many published works and SCMAR membership on Saturday, 10/6.

09/06/2018

Join us Saturday, 10/6
Tom Elmore will be speaking on “The Four Irish Neighborhoods in Columbia: Richland County’s Irish Population in 1860.” ☘ Mr. Elmore is the author of Columbia Civil War Landmarks, Potter’s Raid Through South Carolina: The Final Days of the Confederacy, Carnival of Destruction: Sherman’s Invasion of South Carolina, and The Scandals Lives of Carolina Belles Marie Boozer and Amelia Feaster: Flirting with the Enemy

09/06/2018

PRESIDENT'S DINNER

Don’t miss a fantastic dinner October 5th! Our Friday evening President’s dinner speaker, Ernie Trubiano, is a long-time sports writer for “The State,” will speak on the topic of “The History of Horse Racing in both Aiken and Elloree, South Carolina.” Mr. Trubiano is the author of South Carolina Sports Legends and The Carolina Cup: 50 Years of Steeplechasing and Socializing

Picture:
Horses
Columbia, SC. 1907

08/21/2018

06/08/2018

ANNOUNCEMENT

OGSGS will add Orangeburgh District Pedigree Certification and the Orangeburgh District DNA Project to our mission statement.

Certification to Orangeburgh District ancestors and the First Families of Orangeburgh will be proven by a direct line ahnentafel ancestor table used for presenting direct lineage. According to Mills (2001), “ascending (Ahnentafel or Sosa-Stradonitz) compilations are familiar to all genealogists and follow a numbering system used by virtually every ancestor chart in paper and electronic form … it is a type far easier to compile and easier for families to comprehend, and equally appropriate for article and books” (p. 454). Once approved, direct line pedigrees will be published in the OGSGS Newsletter. Stratton & Hoff (2014) noted, “an ahnentafel presents a direct line of ancestors, beginning at or near the present time and going back to the earliest known ancestor” (p.19). Members who certify their Orangeburgh lineage will receive a certificate of pedigree from OGSGS. Present to past direct orangeburgh ancestor certification requirements, forms, and options for proof will be posted on the website, social media, and in the newsletter at a later date.

Mills, E.S. (2001). Professional Genealogy: A manual for researchers, writers, editors, lecturers, and librarians. Genealogical Publishing Company, 454. Baltimore, Maryland.

Stratton, P.L., Hoff, H.B. (2014). Guide to genealogical writing. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 19 - 21. Boston, Massachusetts.

Pamela Eve Hansen
OGSGS President
MLIS & Archives

03/10/2018

Dear OGSGS Members,

Would you like to connect your DNA to your Orangeburg family pedigree? As I mentioned in my last letter, our Orangeburg District DNA project becomes more useful as our families continue to connect through DNA results. At this time, we do not have full lineage information for many participants. “Access to pedigrees is restricted to project members who have submitted their pedigrees.” (OGSGS, 2017) Our project administrators encourage project participants to provide full lineage information. For FTDNA or autosomal transfer, please contact Margaret Waters [email protected] to submit your pedigree. For y-DNA and mtDNA please contact Jim Rickenbacker [email protected] to submit your pedigree.

Please see the following Pedigree and Lineage page on the OGSGS website for more information: https://ogsgs.org/dna/submit.htm

Sincerely,

Pamela Eve Hansen, MLIS & Archives
President, OGSGS

If you want to get maximum benefit from this project you'll need to submit your Pedigree or Lineage. This is the only way to relate your DNA results to Genealogy. The information you need to submit depends on the tests you have taken. If you've taken the Family Finder test or transferred autosomal r...