Membership includes:

• A quarterly periodical, the East European Genealogist (EEG) including:
  • Record Sources in East Europe
  • Historical Background to East Europe
  • Experiences of Members' Research Trips
  • Free Query, Success Stories, Library Acquisitions, News of Society Activities, etc.

• A "New Members" package which includes:
  • Constitution
  • Contents of EEG Back Issues
  • “Family History Research … a Beginning” (includes a pedigree chart, family group sheet, research checklist, and research log)
  • “Sources to Determine the Ancestral Village Name”
  • “Political Divisions of the Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian Empires: Eastern European Membership Interest” (includes maps of three empires)
  • “Locating Your Village on a Map” including a map of Europe showing coverage of the three EEGS maps series:
  1. Map key for Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (1:200,000) maps
  2. Map key for Karte des Deutschen Reiches (1:100,000) maps
  3. Map key for Oblast Topograficheskaia Karta (1:200,000) maps
  • Separate enclosures
  1. East European Genealogist – back issues order form
  2. East European Genealogist – query form
  3. East European Surname/Village(Town) Database entry form

• Surname-Village Database
  • Submit your surnames and villages for inclusion in the database. This database is indexed by Google; hence, your names/villages will turn up in Google searches allowing others researching the same names/places to find you.

• Limited research
  • Locating ancestral villages
  • Sources of records
  • Advice on research directions

• Library
  • Library holdings and map collection is non-circulating and are located at the University of Winnipeg.

• Free admission to all monthly meetings
  • Normally held between September and May on the third Wednesday of each month