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.

March issue of The Tracer is now available online

The March issue of The Tracer is now available for HCGS members to download from our website. Log into the Members area and then click on The Tracer. (If your membership includes printed copies of The Tracer, a copy will arrive soon by USPS mail.)

Not a member yet? Become a member today to enjoy this award-winning quarterly journal and much more! Read about all the benefits of membership.

Articles in the March issue of The Tracer are:

• Three Online Collections of Hamilton County Probate Records
• Calendar of Upcoming Events
• Chapter News
• HCGS Website
• Awards for HCGS Digital Resources Committee
• A Guide to Hamilton County Census Records
• New Law Opens Access for Adoptees
• Chronicling America: Cincinnati Newspapers 
• Ohio and Hamilton County Divorce Records 
• Clifton United Methodist Church
• Hamilton County Name Changes, 1896-1916
• J. Richard Abell Genealogical Trust Fund Donors 
• New Members 
• Book Reviews
• Public Library Acquisitions
• Queries 

Submitted by Jenny Davis

Hamilton County Research Essentials

Researching your ancestors in Hamilton County, Ohio? When it comes to publications, there are two essentials that should be on everyone's shelf. The first is A Guide to Genealogical Resources in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, 6th Edition and the second is the collection of back issues of the Tracer and Gazette 1979-2008. More recent issues of the Tracer and Gazette are available in the members section of our website, hcgsohio.org.

A Guide to Genealogical Resources in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, 6th Edition provides detailed research guidance including reproductions of numerous period maps, lists of publications and microfilms, a gazetteer, a list of street name changes, addresses and holdings of many county libraries, archives and government offices, and more! The table of contents can be viewed on our website by clicking, http://hcgsohio.org/guidecontents.pdf.

Back issues of the The Tracer contain an amazing number of articles of benefit to Hamilton County researchers. The Hamilton County Genealogical Society (HCGS) website has both a topical index (1979-2008), http://www.hcgsohio.org/tracerarticleindex.pdf and also a name index (1979-2005), http://www.hcgsohio.org/tracernames.shtml. These sources can be used in conjunction with the text search capabilities available on the CD or DVD to locate all the relevant articles that contain your ancestor or topic of interest.

Both of the publications can be purchased using the Publications Order Form (http://www.hcgsohio.org/publicationsorderform.pdf). The HCGS is experimenting with taking orders using credit cards. As part of our beta-test, these publications can now be purchased online.

	The Tracer and The Gazette 1979-2008 on 1 DVD	$16.00
	The Tracer and The Gazette 1979-2008 on 2 CDs	$20.00
	A Guide to Genealogical Resources in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, 6th Edition	$11.95

Please let us know about your experience. We love to hear from you!

Submitted by Liz Stratton, Treasurer

Note: When we discussed this project at the board meeting, many complained of difficulties keeping track of all those pesky passwords. (Yes, if you choose to open a PayPal account, you will need to password protect your account or you can opt to pay by credit card.) There are many programs available to manage passwords. Reviews of the top 10 password management programs can be found at: http://password-management-software-review.toptenreviews.com/.

If you are receiving this message via email, please go to http://hcgsohio.blogspot.com/2012/09/hamilton-county-research-essentials.html to make a purchase.
 

The September Tracer Now Online

The Tracer is one my favorite publications. Filled with research guidance and the latest upcoming events, I eagerly read each new issue from cover-to-cover to find the nugget that might lead to new discoveries about my ancestors. “The Foreign Population in Cincinnati, 1912” is a fascinating reprinting of a pamphlet published in 1912, “Report on the Survey of the Foreign Population in Cincinnati.” The reprint is one of many great articles in the September issue, now available to members online. Headlines include:

The Foreign Population in Cincinnati, 1912

Chapter Programs

            September 25: “Choosing a Genealogy Software Program”

October 1, 8, 15, 29: “Learn to Read Old German Script”

October 6: “It’s a Small World Even in a Big City”

Family History Month

            October 6, 27: HCGS Tech Programs during Family History Month at the Library

            October 6: Day with the Experts including a library tour, Expert tables, “Researching Your

                              Civil War Ancestor Online,” and “General William Haines Lytle”

            October 8, 15, 20, 22: “Falling into Genealogy,” introductory genealogy class

            October 27: Genealogy Lock-In

Chapter and OGS News

             November 3: Heritage Luncheon

             OGS Conference Coming to Cincinnati in April 2013

             Get your OGS Lineage Society Honors in Cincinnati Next Year

             Congratulations, Pat!

Calendar of Upcoming Events

Hamilton County Early Surveys and Maps, JIM DEMPSEY

Hamilton County Records Online: Probate, 1940 Census

New Library Catalogs, War of 1812, Newspapers

An Irish Rose By Any Other Name..., MARY ANN FALOON

Probate Record Extracts before 1821 in Support of Hamilton County Lineage Programs, JEFFREY HERBERT

Hamilton County Recorder’s Office Early Indexes and Records, JIM DEMPSEY

Hamilton County Probate and Naturalization Records on FamilySearch

Using Fold3: A Powerful Internet Research Tool, BRENT MORGAN

German-Americana Collection at University of Cincinnati

Public Library Acquisitions, MARK SCHMIDT

Book Reviews BY COLLEEN PHILLIPS: Literary Cincinnati: The Missing Chapter by DALE PATRICK BROWN

Queries, COMPILED BY BARBARA WEGLEY

New Members, EILEEN MUCCINO

The Tracer is available online to all members on our website, http://hcgsohio.org/membership.shtml. Additional information about upcoming programs are also available on the calendar, http://hcgsohio.blogspot.com/p/calendar.html.

Submitted by Liz Stratton