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What's new

HCGS and the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL) are cohosting an in-person event on September 30: Ask The Experts Your Local Genealogy Questions.

Reservations are now open for the 2023 Heritage Luncheon and HCGS 50th Anniversary Celebration scheduled for Saturday, November 4th. We have a great program to present.

The September 2023 issue of The Tracer, our award winning journal, is available on our website in the Members Area.

Two New Indexes of Criminal and Death Records on the HCGS Website - Thanks to the Cincinnati History Library and Archives (CHLA), two new indexes have been scanned and posted on this HCGS website: Criminal Records in Commissioners’ Reports and Deaths in City Infirmary Annual Reports. For more detail see page 43 of the June 2023 Tracer.

The video recordings from our two-part webinar series Using the HCGS Website are now available under Public videos on the Videos page of this website.

The video recording of the February 11th HCGS webinar The CHPL Digital Library for Genealogists is now available on the Videos page.

HCGS has published a new index: Hamilton County, Ohio Roman Catholic Baptism Records - 1890 – 1899, which is available in our store with a 20% discount for members, and also available as a free abbreviated index.

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