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P.O. Box 15865
Cincinnati, Ohio 45215-0865

Telephone: (513) 956-7078

A chapter of the
Ohio Genealogical Society

What's new

April's HCGS Board Meeting will be held on Thursday 4/18 at 6:30pm at Perkin's Restaurant in Mt. Healthy. Members are welcome. Come and find out what's happening! Food available.

Findmypast has announced that, "Over 405,000 sacramental register entries covering 103 Parishes across the Dioceses of Cincinnati are now available to search online for the first time. These new collections consist of indexes of baptisms, marriages, burials and congregational records spanning the years 1800 to 1979." Please note these are indexed transcripts rather than images, and they were provided by a third party, not by the HCGS, and may be incomplete.

The March 2019 issue of our journal The Tracer is now available on our website in the Members Area. The contents of this issue are:
- The YWCA of Cincinnati: Pioneer for Working Women
- Interest Groups
- Chapter News
- Anderson Township Cemetery Guide on PLCH Digital Library
- OGS Conference in Mason, Ohio
- Calendar of Genealogy Events
- Finding Aid for Leases at Hamilton County Recorder’s Office
- Protestant Ministers in Hamilton County, Ohio from 1878 to 1881, Extracted from
- Annual Report of the Young Men’s Bible Society of Cincinnati
- Law Publications with Hamilton County Cases
- Cincinnati and the State Black Laws
- Columbia Township Hamilton County, Ohio Record Book – Newly Digitized Pioneer Resource
- “Letter from Madisonville” from the Cincinnati Commercial, 11 August 1873
- Indian Hill Historical Society
- Public Library Acquisitions
- New Additions to the Digital Collections of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- Book Review: Secret Cincinnati: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure, Kathryn Witt

A new Article Index for our quarterly journal The Tracer covering the years 2008 - 2018 has been added to this website. The earlier article index covering the years of publication 1979 - 2008 remains available.

Our Calendar of Genealogy Events has been updated (2/21/2019).

Oldenburg Church Books Now Available on Matricula - Exciting News! See the descriptive HCGS Blog post by Kathy Reed, our Director-at-Large.

An updated "all-name index" of the First Families of Hamilton County has been posted along with announcement of the new members of the society inducted in 2018.

The Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS) Conference, to be held at the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio, May 1 - 4, is now open for registration.

HCGS has just published a new index book: Archdiocese of Cincinnati Roman Catholic Baptism Records - Early – 1859 Excluding Hamilton County. The volume is now available for purchase. An abbreviated index from the volume is available online for free at this website. Follow the above link.

The latest edition of our newsletter, the January 2019 Gazette, is now available.

Our Hamilton County Deed Indexes page has been newly redone and updated, including the new and improved Finding Aid 1794 to 1836 (Indexes 1 & 2).

Approximately 40,000 WPA Veteran Grave Cards (Revolutionary War–Vietnam War) are now available to the public for searching and download via our Cemeteries page.

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