Membership Information

   Anyone with an interest in genealogy is welcome to join the Centre County Genealogical Society. Annual membership is from January 1 through December 31 for a fee of $18. Membership covers an individual, spouse, and unmarried children living at the same address. An annual membership is available for international members for $30, or $18 if you opt to have your newsletters e-mailed rather than mailed.

We now offer two options for submitting your membership:
Submit and pay online using our PayPal Membership Form
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Print, fill out, and mail our Mail-in Membership Form (PDF) along with your payment.

   Benefits of your membership in the Centre County Genealogical Society include:

• A new member packet containing a welcome booklet with information on society projects, location and addresses for places to do Centre County research, suggestions for viewing maps online, and a site to find places to stay while you are in Centre County and especially Bellefonte, plus a listing of society publications and officers with contact information.

• Members receive our quarterly newsletter, which includes free unlimited queries from members, research aids (such as Orphan's Court Docket abstracts), news-related items, brief family histories, and much more. Members are invited to submit brief family history articles about Centre County families, or about some unique aspect of their research into a Centre County family. Meeting program summaries also appear in the newsletter for the benefit of those members unable to attend meetings. 

• We publish material of interest to genealogists and historians. Publications currently available include our Cemetery Series (our ongoing series that will eventually include every known cemetery in the county), baptismal records, marriage records, previously published newsletters, and more. Members receive a 20% discount on all publications, and are sometimes offered pre-publication prices.

• Members may submit their Super Eights, up to eight surnames used to contact other society members researching the same surnames. See Members Corner for details.

• The Members' Corner of this website offers online member-specific information including volunteer opportunities and useful forms.