Germanic Genealogy Society
A branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society

What Donations are All About

Have you thought of how you can help your Germanic Genealogy Society?
There are many ways to help us grow and become more beneficial to you.

 Time Donations

GGS depends on volunteer power.

·         Serve as an officer or Board member

·         Serve on a committee

·         Help at a GGS event

·         Develop training materials

·         Give a presentation

·         Write an article for the Germanic Genealogical Journal

·         Help with a special task

There are many other opportunities.  See the Volunteer Page for more information.

Financial Donations

Ensure that our society remains active and solvent. 

·         Make a monetary donation to GGS

·         Include GGS in your will

 In addition to giving of your time, you may prefer to make a direct financial donation. GGS is a Branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society, who  is a 501 3(c) tax exempt organization, and therefore all donations are tax deductible.

If you wish to specify a particular purpose for your donation,

CONTACT US for more information.

If you desire to make a donation now,

Click on the DONATE Button.

 Material Donations

You may want to donate some of your research materials to add to the GGS collection at the Concordia library.

·         Genealogy books

·         CD-ROMS with genealogical information for general use

·         Microfilms of genealogical data

·         Papers

Family History Donation Policy

 The policy for accepting family histories by GGS for the library is as follows:
1)      Donors are encouraged to submit their family histories; the Library Committee will review submissions and decide upon the
         disposition.
2)      Donors are encouraged to submit only bound volumes of their family histories and the family histories must
         be of Germanic ancestry.
3)      Loose papers, CDs, three ring binders and cheap plastic bindings are not acceptable.
4)      Once the submission is made, a thank-you letter is sent, the submitted material becomes the property of GGS and the
         Library Committee will determine its disposition. If the committee decides that a family history is not suitable
         for the GGS collection, it may be submitted to MGS (with notification to donor), or it will be returned to donor if no
         other satisfactory disposition can be found.
 This policy, has been approved by the board, and  takes effect on 1 January 2011.

To make a material donation please contact the Library Chair using the CONTACT US page.

Finally you may have some German or Germanic related information, writings or books that you wish to share with others. These items can become physical donation to the GGS collection of Germanic information housed at Concordia University.  Our history has been people who share by giving, especially information. We have received many book donations over the years which has help our collection to grow in size and content.  Also from time to time requests are made of our members to donate specific books that are no longer available or are out of print.

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