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Wayne County Genealogical Society (view source)
Revision as of 11:57, 21 February 2018
, 11:57, 21 February 2018→Purpose, 1976
About 1997, the two societies separated.
About 1997, the two societies separated.
==Purpose, 1976==
==Purposes of Society, 1976==
* To foster an interest in all of the peoples who contributed in any way, however, great or small, in establishing and perpetuating the State of Ohio.
* To search for the reasons and forces behind the migrations of the early settlers into this state.
* To preserve and safeguard manuscripts, books, relics, and memoranda relating to the early settlers of Ohio.
* To secure and hold copyrights and plates of books, periodicals, tracts, and pamphlets of genealogical and historical interest to the people of Ohio.
* To publish, print, buy, sell, and circulate literature relative to the purposes and acquisitions of the Society, its records and discoveries, to promote genealogical and historical research, and to aid in publication, dissemination, preservation, and safeguarding of genealogical and other manuscripts pertaining to Ohio, including biography, family and local history, for carrying on the work of education and for educational purposes.
* To receive and hold gifts and devises of real and personal estate from any source for the benefit of such association, and to dispose of real estate ot needed, and to use solely for the purposes of the Society any funds derived therefrom or from gifts generally, and to do all things incident to the perpetuation of the purposes of the association, and generally to exercise the powers legally and properly requisite thereto.
* All of the foregoing are for carrying on the work of the Society for educational purposes and to operate solely for educational purposes in Section 501 (c) (3) of Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
* In the event of dissolution, funds of the Society shall be distributed to an organization or organizations exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of Internal Revenue Code.
==Membership==
==Membership==