Location The Society's office and library is located in Forest City, NC at the corner of Main and Cherry Mountain Streets in room 312 on the third floor of the Rutherford County Arts Council building. The entrance is on Cherry Mountain Street and from there one may take the elevator or the stairs. The regular meetings are held on the second Saturday afternoon of the months of at the Society library. Upon joining the Society, new members will receive all back issues of the Bulletin for the current year, as well as a copy of the most recent membership directory. Membership applications received after November 1st will be assumed to be for the next year unless designated otherwise.
All members receive quarterly issues of the Bulletin.
It received the 1993 Award of Excellence in Periodical Publication from the North Carolina Genealogical Society. Each issue contains fifty pages of genealogical abstracts of records of the counties formed from Tryon County, including Rutherford, Lincoln, Cleveland, Gaston, and Polk in North Carolina, and York, Spartanburg, and Cherokee in South Carolina. Also included are Bible and cemetery abstracts, brief family histories, free member queries, and listings of new members' surnames of interest. The November issue contains the annual index. In addition the Society maintains for purchase a collection of back issues of Bulletins beginning in 1973.