Berks County Genealogical Society
Preserving the Past to Enrich the Lives of the Present

The Society holds regular meetings throughout the year except in December and January. An integral part of each meeting is a talk given by a noted speaker on topics related to genealogical and historical research. See the full calendar below. All General Meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month, at 6:30 PM. in the BCGS Library. Remember, doors open at 6 PM. Refreshments will be served before the program. Programs are free to Society members, donation requested from non-members.

The society also holds one dinner meeting and one picnic each year. The June Dinner Meeting and the Annual Picnic are held at various locations.

Periodically the Society conducts workshops, seminars, and trips for members and the general public which relate to genealogical research, methodology, and various other related activities.

Still FREE parking in the rear. Construction is done at rear (Main) entrance. Now enter right off the free parking lot. Reminder, the library now has FREE ACCESS to Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org.

Thursday, April 17 @ 6:30pm

Guest speaker, Jonathon Del Collo, the Prothonotary of Berks County, will be speaking about research in his office. Doors open at 6 p.m. Snacks served. Bring a guest.

Saturday, April 26 @ 10am - 4pm

Join us for History Day at Daniel Boone Homestead. You're invited to discuss family history and check the library's records.

Saturday, May 10 @ 1:30pm - 3:30pm

We will be having a Volunteer Fair in our library at the Berks County Genealogical Society. Look over the list below and see if there is something that you would like to do to help. Come in to our library and get more details. If you can’t get here that day, call or email us and we can discuss it that way.

Journal Editor – We need articles about Berks County history or genealogy. Journal editor will assemble articles using whatever software they are comfortable with. Send to Journal proof reader and when returned, convert final Journal to pdf file and email to Membership chair for distribution. Current editor will work with and show the “template” pages that have been saved for future use. Just 4 issues per year.

Publicity – email general meeting information and announcements to the public. (7 times a year)

Library – Volunteers are needed to help staff the library 12 to 4. It can be once a week, once every other week or once a month. Whatever works for you.

Projects Chairperson – Coordinate and track indexing, copying, scanning, etc, with volunteers.

Videographer – Film and edit meetings using whatever equipment you have, edit videos to a short file length, currently 720 dpi and 18 frames per second will reduce file size to something that can be emailed. First video’s with better results were with a generation 1 iPad. Current videographer is not one and is hung up with editing. I will share what I saved, hoping for a volunteer with more knowledge.