Showing posts with label NGS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NGS. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The Tracer Wins 2014 NGS Award

The Tracer is this year’s winner of the National Genealogical Society Newsletter Competition in the category of County or Local Genealogical or Historical Society.

As described on the NGS website, “A panel of three judges reviewed two issues of each submitted newsletter on these criteria: material interest, variety and originality; writing and editing quality; readability and attractiveness; and overall publication make-up.”

The judges’ comments included “it was one of the most professional newsletters that they have reviewed,” and “the content was far above any of the other nominations submitted for 2014.”     
            
The award was presented to Deb Cyprych, editor of The Tracer, at the NGS Conference in the States held in Richmond, Virginia May 7-10. The Tracer was honored with this award in the same location in 2007.

Great Timing!

The June issue of The Tracer is now available on our website in the Members Area. The contents of this issue are:
  • "Cincinnati Boardinghouses: 1819 to 1840"
  • Calendar of Upcoming Events
  • Lineage Societies Deadline and Heritage Luncheon
  • HCGS Publication News
  • Awards Presented at the Annual Seminar
  • HCGS in Kroger Community Rewards
  • New Project to Memorialize Civil War Veterans
  • Preserve the Pensions: $2,360!
  • More Hamilton County Marriage Records Online
  • Hamilton County Records Online at FamilySearch: Update
  • Divorce Records of the Insolvency Court
  • New Members
  • “Early History of Hamilton County—Residents in 1790”
  • Historic Hamilton County Courts and Their Records
  • Public Library Acquisitions
  • Book Reviews: Cincinnati’s Underground Railroad; A City That Sings
  • HCGS Treasurer’s Report, 2013

To read these articles, logon to our website in the Members Area and then click on The Tracer. If your HCGS membership includes printed copies of The Tracer, a copy will arrive soon by USPS mail.






Saturday, March 24, 2012

HCGS Local Sponsors of National Genealogical Society Conference

National Genealogical Society Conference 9-12 May 2012
Things are going great. Some of the paid sessions are now full. Conference hotels are full and other area hotels are being used. The exhibit hall is full. We hope to reach the attendance goal of 2000.

The Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS) and the Hamilton County Chapter of the OGS (HCGS) are sponsoring two events: the Tuesday Bus Trip of Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky and the Wednesday Night Museum Center Event. There are still some openings for each of these events. To register, see National Genealogical Society's Conference Information.

As local sponsors, OGS and HCGS are providing volunteers for the event. We are not asking anyone to volunteer and miss a session that you want to attend. We do need more volunteers to work at registration especially before the conference opens each day (including some on Tuesday). The stuffing day (for registration) and training day will be on Monday beginning at 9:00 a.m. I realize many of you will not be here that early but since most of you are already "trained professionals" at conferences you will need just a short refresher. If you can volunteer any time at the conference, please let Jean Nathan know at ngsvolunteers@gmail.com.

Hope to see many of you in Cincinnati.

Kenny Burck
President
Hamilton County Genealogical Society