Comments on: Centenary Club http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=302 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:14:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Centenary Club http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=302&cpage=1#comment-814 Centenary Club Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:00:52 +0000 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=302#comment-814 What a wonderful fund-raising idea!
I have the information for the 200-year club & will be purchasing certificates as Christmas gifts for my dad (96 years young) and his youngest grandson (just eight!)
A great idea — and I have told others of it.
regards

]]> By: Pat Jeffs http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=302&cpage=1#comment-222 Pat Jeffs Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:51:03 +0000 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=302#comment-222 It would be easy for me to apply for admission to the Centenary Club. I would only have to provide the source information for my parents’ birth registrations and a phoocopy of my own birth certificate to receive bronze level. I am even eligible for gold level–and could list the evidence for that as well.

However, when I get to the second or third web page of the Centenary Club section and find that I would have to provide $20 with the application, my interest wanes. Whereas I might be pleased to have my name on a list of OGS members who can trace their lineage back 100 or 200 years in Ontario, a certificate to prove it is of no interest. Where would I put it? To hang it up would oblige buying a picture frame as well. To put it away in a drawer would make it one more piece of paper for my family to throw out after I’m gone.

A club with a bit of exclusiveness is one thing; paying for a bit of fancy parchment is another.

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