Join or Renew your NWIGS membership

Yearly dues for NWIGS are $25.00 per year.
There are two ways to join NWIGS or renew your membership.
1. We strongly encourage you to join or renew by paying online with a credit card, below. While we use Pay Pal to process your payment, you do not need a Pay Pal account to pay for your membership. Once you pay online, please allow at least 48 hours for NWIGS volunteers to add or update your record in our database. 
2. You may send a check via U.S. Mail. Be sure to fill out the electronic form or print a membership form (found below) and include it with your payment. Though we endeavor to process memberships sent by U.S. mail as soon as possible, it may take up to 3 months for your payment and membership to be processed due to limited volunteer resources. 
Once your membership is processed, you will receive an invitation to create a password to access the member area of the website or retain access.  If it has been more than 48 hours after you paid online, check that your e-mail provider is not blocking messages from NWIGS and Contact us. To ensure that our members are receiving our NWIGS email communications, we ask that you add the following email addresses to your email contact list.In addition, let us know if your email has changed or if you need a new invitation to access the members area.

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One Year Membership to NWIGS

$25.00

Join or Renew your yearly membership fee.

Receive access to exclusive research materials.
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Pay by US Mail

Dues can be paid by US mail. Please fill out the online membership form below and then send your payment by U.S. Mail to 
Treasurer/Membership P.O. Box 595 Griffith, IN 46319
​Alternatively print out the form below and send it with your payment. ​

Benefits of Membership

Members will receive
  • Access to ZOOM recordings of monthly classes and sharing sessions as well as handouts when available
  • Access to TWIGS Newsletters
  • Access to numerous research materials including select NWIGS books, a keyword searchable index, and original records through the members only area of our website
  • Access to a discount code for the NWIGS store which can be found on the Member Perks page. 
  • The satisfaction of supporting an entirely volunteer run, non-profit, community organization 
  • The opportunity to volunteer to help create the programs and resources that NWIGS provides. 

Reasons to become a member....
  • Receive alerts about upcoming meetings and classes with a guest speaker either local or national featuring a variety of genealogical topics.  Find the class list here.
  • Access recordings of previous classes with handouts when available. 
  • Network with other members at regular meetings and at occasional informal meetings throughout the year at NWI libraries.
  • Membership fees are a significant funding source for all of NWIGS programs. 

Access to books, records and newsletters including but not limited to: 
  • NWIGS MEMBER ANCESTRAL PEDIGREE CHARTS  
  • CEMETERY BOOKS PORTER CO. - COMPLETE INFORMATION (published by NWIGS)
  • CEMETERY BOOKS LAKE CO. - COMPLETE INFORMATION (published by NWIGS)
  • CLAIM DOCKET BOOK LAKE COUNTY 
  • DATABASE - KEYWORD SEARCH (with 841,864 full indexed entries)
  • GERMANIA IN AMERIKA - V
  • LAKE COUNTY NATURALIZATION INDEX &  plus the actual RECORDS
  • OBITUARY INDEXES - Some Post Tribune and The Times (plus links to other local obituary resources) and Porter County Obituaries and Death Notices prior to 1900
  • REGISTER OF TRAINED NURSES
  • SCHOOL ENUMERATION RECORDS
  • TWIGS NEWSLETTERS - CURRENT/MORE RECENT AND ARCHIVAL - read the current edition of our TWIGS newsletter
  • WILLS AND BOYD HOME TOURIST BOOK
  • 1891 PLAT BOOK FOR APPRAISERS OF REAL ESTATE LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA