About Meetings

On this page:

• Access
• Registration
• Attending on Zoom
• Frequency and number of meetings
• Start time and meeting plan
• Location and parking
• Driving directions
• Maps of Trinity Health Campus

Access

• Meetings are free and open to the public.
• Meetings in the winter months are online only. 
• Meetings in the fall and spring months are hybrid (in person and via Zoom)

• In September, October, and November-December meetings will be hybrid.
• Meetings in January, February, and March will be online only.
• Meetings in April and May will be hybrid.  

Registration

• No registration is required to attend a meeting in person. 
• Registration is required to attend on Zoom. 

Attending on Zoom

The invitation to register will be sent to the email address listed in your GSWC membership profile. You may change the email address associated with your membership. This is a setting in your member profile, which appears in the main menu at the top of the page on the right if you are logged in.

Members

• Members are emailed an invitation to register one week before the meeting. 
• A new "Invitation to Register" is sent before every meeting. 
• The link to join the Zoom meeting is unique to that meeting.
• Links may not be shared.
• Members should check their junk/spam folders for the invitation to register if it does not arrive in their inbox by the Monday before the meeting.​

Non-members

Non-members should request an invitation (no later than 3 days before the meeting) at info@washtenawgenealogy.org.

Frequency and Number of Meetings 

• The GSWC meets eight times a year, usually on the fourth Sunday of each month from September to May.
• The November and December meetings are combined into one meeting held in the last week of November or first week of December.

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Start Time and Meeting Plan

• GSWC program meetings begin at 1:30 p.m. Eastern with a brief Business Meeting (upcoming events, sharing successes).
• The program itself starts about 1:45 p.m. and usually lasts approximately one hour.
• We take a short break, and then organize into small groups for discussion on predetermined topics led by GSWC facilitators.
• Meetings are usually over by 4:30 p.m.

Location of Meetings

Parking Lot P

Trinity Health Campus Map (click link to view full map)

Driving Directions

Driving Directions from the North (Flint, Lansing)

1. Take US-23 South past I-96 to Exit 39 (Geddes Road).
2. Turn RIGHT (west) into the traffic circle and take the second exit from the circle to go over US-23.
3. Stay to the right through the next traffic circle and take the first exit from the circle to remain on Geddes Road.
4. Turn RIGHT (south) at the first traffic light onto Dixboro Road.
5. Continue on Dixboro across the bridge and through the traffic light where the road becomes Huron River Drive.
6. Stay on Huron River Drive past the Washtenaw Community College Campus on your right.
7. Once past the Community College, get into the left lane and turn LEFT into the St. Joseph Mercy Campus.
8. Follow the signs to the meeting location.

Highway map near Trinity Health Ann Arbor (formerly St. Joseph Mercy Hospital)

Driving Directions from the South (Saline, Toledo)

• Take US 23 North to Exit 39 (Geddes Road).
• Turn RIGHT (east) in the traffic circle onto Geddes.
• Stay in the right lane on Geddes and turn RIGHT (south) at the first traffic light onto Dixboro Road.
• Continue on Dixboro across the bridge and thru the traffic light where it becomes Huron River Drive.
• You'll pass Washtenaw Community College on the right.
• Get into the left lane, and turn LEFT into the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital campus.
• Follow the signs to the meeting location.

Maps of Trinity Health Campus

Map of Trinity Health Ann Arbor campus with road marked in green

Map of Trinity Health Ann Arbor campus with road to GSWC meeting marked in green.

Map of Trinity Health Ann Arbor campus

Location of the Auditorium in Building 5 (Administration Services)

Map of Trinity Health Ann Arbor campus showing the location of the auditorium in building 5