{"id":45828,"date":"2024-11-06T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=45828"},"modified":"2024-11-04T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:51:59","slug":"dc-chapter-of-the-ohio-genealogical-society-inducts-2025-26-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/dc-chapter-of-the-ohio-genealogical-society-inducts-2025-26-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society Inducts 2025-26 Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"343\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Def-Geonolical-2025-2026-Officers.jpeg?resize=800%2C343&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45829\" style=\"width:555px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Def-Geonolical-2025-2026-Officers.jpeg?w=1016&amp;ssl=1 1016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Def-Geonolical-2025-2026-Officers.jpeg?resize=768%2C329&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Def-Geonolical-2025-2026-Officers.jpeg?resize=560%2C240&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Def-Geonolical-2025-2026-Officers.jpeg?resize=260%2C111&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Def-Geonolical-2025-2026-Officers.jpeg?resize=160%2C69&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Pictured above are the officers of the Defiance County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society for 2025-26: (l-r) Bob Carpenter, Summer Searfoss, Mary Williams, Rhonda Casler, Dianne Kline, Dawn Hasch, and Dan Hasch.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defiance County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society met recently at St. John&#8217;s United Church of Christ in Defiance to hold their annual business meeting and elections. Officers elected for 2025-2026 are: President &#8211; Rhonda Casler; Vice-President &#8211; Summer Searfoss; Recording Secretary &#8211; Mary Williams; Treasurer &#8211; Dan Hasch; Corresponding Secretary &#8211; Dianne Kline; Trustees &#8211; Kim Bercaw, Bob Carpenter, and Dawn Hasch.&nbsp; The members also honored several long-time volunteers and&nbsp;two Charter Members in attendance, Diane Hill and Caroline Longardner.&nbsp; Three deceased members of the chapter were celebrated: Fred Marckel, Irene Winnie and Roena Bayes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the upcoming programming for 2025 was announced and includes: Taylor Moyer speaking on the Underground Railroad in Northwest Ohio; Pam Lash with Black Sheep Vignettes; Jeanne Calvert on Defiance County Murders; and Julia Chase on Family Search: Boldly Go Beyond the Basics.&nbsp; A field trip to the Fulton County Historical Society is planned for July.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 Memberships cost $15.00 per person or $18.00 per family.&nbsp; Membership includes our quarterly newsletter, &#8220;Yesteryears Trails&#8221;, with unlimited queries, our latest research guide, and eligibility to participate in the annual attendance prizes&nbsp;and to apply for our lineage societies of the&nbsp;First Families of Defiance County.&nbsp; Membership forms and details are on our website www.defiancecountygenealogy.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next meeting of the Defiance County Genealogical Society will feature Tanya Brunner presenting information on the village of Evansport.&nbsp; Annual attendance prizes will be also awarded and include a cemetery cleaning kit, genealogy research supplies, family tree charts, and handmade wooden creations. Meeting time is 7:00 pm, November 24, 2025 at the St. John&#8217;s United Church of Christ, 950 Webster Street, Defiance.&nbsp; Our meetings are open to members and visitors are always welcome.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defiance County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society met recently at St. John&#8217;s United Church of Christ in Defiance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1464],"tags":[23872,23878,23877,23871,9509,23876,23874,23875,20652,23873],"class_list":["post-45828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-history-community","tag-bob-carpenter","tag-dan-hasch","tag-dawn-hasch","tag-defiance-county-chapter-of-the-ohio-genealogical-society","tag-defiance-ohio","tag-dianne-kline","tag-mary-williams","tag-rhonda-casler","tag-st-johns-united-church-of-christ","tag-summer-searfoss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Def-Geonolical-2025-2026-Officers.jpeg?fit=1016%2C435&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-bVa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 12:25:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45830,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828\/revisions\/45830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}