The Orangeburg German-Swiss Newsletter

OGS members receive the Newsletter, covering genealogical subjects and society news four times a year. By default, the newsletter is sent via USPS mail to the address given when you became a member. To receive the electronic (pdf) version via email instead of a mailed paper copy, Click HERE

Here are some of the subjects covered in the most recent issues:

Summer 2025 Volume 21, Number 4 (16 pgs)

  • Acting President’s Letter
  • Jacob Horger of Florida and Texas, II
  • Margaret Elizabeth Bull Snider
  • OGSGS Annual Meeting
  • Membership
  • About OGSGS

Spring 2025 Volume 21, Number 3 (12 pgs)

  • Acting President’s Letter
  • Peter Fauré’s Origins
  • Jacob Horger of Florida and Texas, I
  • Membership
  • About OGSGS

Fall/Winter 2024 Volume 21, Number 2

  • Acting President’s Letter
  • The House that Mannie Built
  • Annette Hairston Boette Obituary
  • The Case for David Reese
  • About OGSGS

Spring-Summer 2024 – Volume 21, Number 1 (12 pgs)

  • Acting President’s Letter
  • OGSGS Past and Future
  • By-Laws Excerpt
  • New Board Member: Woolsey
  • New Board Member: Rast
  • New Webmaster: Wannamaker
  • David Reese Case Analysis

Winter 2024 – Volume 20, Number 7-8 (24 pgs)

  • Vice President’s Message
  • Crider-Kreuter-Croytery All in One Basket
  • Schüler, (Shuler, Schuyler) yDNA
  • Petition Asking Exemption from Payment of Bounty on Old Land Grants
  • Descendants of Swiss Society

Fall 2023 – Volume 20, Number 6 (16 pgs)

  • President’s Letter
  • New Orangeburgh District Y-DNA Project
  • Turning Those Pre-1850 Census Marks Into Real People
  • The Frederick Family From Rüdisbronn
  • Oktoberfest Review

Summer 2023 – Volume 20, Number 5 (16 pgs)

  • President’s Notes
  • The Future of OGSGS – Your Input Requested
  • First Families: Weaver
  • Officers 2020-2023
  • Oktoberfest Registration

Winter 2022-2023 – Volume 20, Number 4 (16 pgs)

  • President’s Letter
  • First Families: Judy
  • Feme Sole in South Carolina
  • Help Wanted!
  • Dorchester Discovery

Fall 2022 – Volume 20, Number 3 (16 pgs)

  • President’s Letter
  • Bozards by Other Names
  • Eighteenth Century Swiss Villages
  • Some Facts about Switzerland
  • Genealogy Research in 2070
  • In Memoriam
  • OGSGS By-Laws
  • Minutes of the 2022 Annual Meeting

Summer 2022 – Volume 20, Number 2 (16 pgs)

  • President’s Letter
  • The Dukes of Lemon Creek and Mississippi
  • Oktoberfest Details

Spring 2022 – Volume 20, Number 1 (8 pgs)

  • President’s Letter
  • In Memoriam: James Rickenbacker
  • Anthony Vogel/Fogle’s Wife
  • Oktoberfest Family Tables and Posters

Winter 2022 – Volume 19, Number 8 (12 pgs)

  • President’s Letter
  • Orangeburgh District DNA Project
  • First Families Certificate
  • Antley, Endelin, Endele

Fall 2021 – Volume 19, Number 7 (16 pgs)

  • President’s Letter
  • George Kienlein/Kienle Family
  • Ancestors of Bernhard Zeigler
  • Obituary: John Joseph Howell

Back Issues of Volumes 1 through 15 are available by download. See the OGSGS Publications Page for details. Individual back issues are not yet available.