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## With two new member offerings, the Southern California Genealogical Society is making it cheaper for members to research their lineage.

**What’s the benefit?** The Southern California Genealogical Society is adding a couple of new options for its lineage-focused membership: a discount on a one-year subscription to [Find My Past (opens in a new tab)](http://www.findmypast.com/)
, equivalent to the cost of a one-year SCGS membership ($35), and free remote access to [Fold3 (opens in a new tab)](http://www.fold3.com/)
, which offers access to military records. The association announced the new offerings this month at its annual meeting, the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree.

**Why it works for them:** With online genealogy research becoming more popular, groups like SCGS offer the best of both worlds by combining access to vast online resources with the camaraderie of an association. “We are honored to have a strong member base of genealogists and family historians … who recognize the benefits of membership in SCGS. With the addition of these two new programs, we expect that an SCGS membership will become even more valuable,” the group’s president, David Burde, [said at the conference (opens in a new tab)](http://genealogyjamboree.blogspot.com/2014/06/jamboree-new-member-benefits-announced.html?m=1)
.

**Other benefits:** Beyond its online resources—which include webinars and remote access to websites such as [World Vital Records (opens in a new tab)](http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/)
—the society [runs a library in Burbank (opens in a new tab)](http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/about/contact.html)
, which hosts a series of workshops and events. The library also offers in-person access to resources for the history-minded, such as a special library edition of Ancestry.com, an online archive of *The Los Angeles Times*, and discounts on assistance from in-house researchers.

And since your genealogical search might get a little kick-start with some genetic testing, the society offers a discount on [FamilyTreeDNA (opens in a new tab)](https://www.familytreedna.com/)
, too. Neat.

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[Ernie Smith](https://associationsnow.com/author/ernie-smith/)

Ernie Smith is a former senior editor for Associations Now.

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