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Announcement about upcoming programs:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are not holding any in-person events. Check back here for changes. Please see our Events listing and our Calendar. Also see the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH) website for announcements and service changes.

Registration will close at 9:00pm on Friday January 29 for the German Genealogy Webinar with Timo Kracke.

The latest edition of our newsletter, the January 2021 Gazette, is available.

The International German Genealogy Partnership is thrilled to announce that the 2021 International German Genealogy Conference will now be held virtually from 17 July to 24 July 2021.

The December 2020 issue of The Tracer, our award winning journal, is now available on our website in the Members Area.

The Ahnenforscher Stammtisch Unna is hosting a series of free, German-language webinars.

HCGS announces three upcoming webinars with international speakers!!!

Our Calendar of Genealogy Events and detailed Events listing have been updated.

Never before indexed deed books now indexed by our dedicated volunteers. If you are looking for a deed or court case from Dec. 1840 to Dec. 1870 (not continuous), look here.

An update has been posted about the Cincinnati LDS Family History Center on Bosworth Place.

Copies of the Research Opportunities from Home series of blast emails sent to members since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic are available to members. Twenty two have been issued from March 23 through July 9 covering a variety of topics with many links to resources both onsite and offsite.

Volunteer! We have no paid staff. If you are a member of HCGS and would like to become more active in our chapter, and do more for fellow members and others researching their ancestry, consider volunteering for one of our roles.

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