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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

New: On Tuesday, February 11th, Jo Roth spoke at the Southwest Ohio DNA Interest Group: The video of the talk Clustering Tools for Organizing DNA Matches is now online.

Updated: Our Calendar of Genealogy Events has been updated (02/18/2020).

New: Our German Connections", an Ancestor Project for German ancestry that is housed on Gedmatch and the collaboration group on Facebook.

New: Deed indexes 9 through 12, books 371 to 529, cover years 1869 to 1882. These indexes are now on our website on the Hamilton County Deed Indexes page.

New: The Hamilton County, Ohio Burial Sites, a.k.a. "cemeteries master list", is now available on this website.

The latest edition of our newsletter, the January 2020 Gazette, is now available.

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.

Our February HCGS Board Meeting will be held on Thursday 2/20. Meeting starts at 6:30 pm. All HCGS members are welcome. For more info...

Index of Hamilton County, Ohio Mutilated Court Records 1852 - 1884 has been added to this website. After the Courthouse fire in 1884, those Common Pleas court records that survived were copied into 45 books, approximately 25,000 pages.

Original Sundries indexes, Vol. 2 1889-1902 and Vol. 3 1903-1917, both any word searchable, have been added to the Recorder's Office page on this website.

The December 2019 issue of our journal The Tracer is now available on our website in the Members Area. The contents of this issue are:
- Hamilton County Veteran Discharges on FamilySearch
- Genealogy Programs
- 2021 International German Genealogy Conference in Cincinnati
- Chapter News
- Tracer Issues Added to HCGS Website
- Interest Groups
- Diocese of Osnabrück Church Books Now Available on Matricula
- Calendar of Genealogy Events
- Got German? A DNA Opportunity
- Original Hamilton County Deeds
- Hamilton County Genealogical Society Lineage Society Inductions 2019
- Hamilton County Courthouse, 1884 Fire Record Loss
- Records that existed before 1884 courthouse fire: saved, restored or recreated
- Book Review: Cincinnati Goetta: A Delectable History
- Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Partners with Newspaper Archive

Save the date! The Hamilton County Genealogical Society is honored to host the 2021 International German Genealogy Conference here in Greater Cincinnati on 16 - 18 July, 2021.

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Events Page!

Saturday, March 7, 2020, Annual Seminar with Roger Minert

Four sessions on German genealogy. Registration deadline 2/26. Click image for details.

Advanced Genealogy Forum (AGF), Saturday March 28, 2020, 10:00 am

Click on image above for more information.

Wednesday, April 29 - Saturday, May 2; Unlocking the Pieces - 2020 OGS Conference

The premier Midwest genealogical conference. Registration open. Click on image for more info.

Wednesday, June 17 - Saturday, June 20 “Cross the Bridge to Yesterday” PALAM National Conference

To be held in Cincinnati. Click image for more info and registration.

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was born into a prominent Cincinnati family and was one of eight U.S. presidents born in Ohio. Known as a conservative, Taft was also a progressive "trust buster" who supported the establishment of the Department of Labor and the graduated income tax. He is the only person in history to hold both of the nation's highest offices - U.S. President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.