1998	J. Richard Abell	Manager of History & Literature Department at the Public Library for 30 years, Chapter liaison and FGS delegate
2000	Mary H. Remler	Cemetery Committee chair, editor of Hamilton County Burial Records series
2001	Ruth J. Wells	Past Chapter president and editor of The Tracer
2005	Jeffrey G. Herbert	President and author of numerous Hamilton County books
2006	Karen Everett	Education and seminar chair, genealogy class instructor
2007	Margie Mohr	Past president, treasurer, Membership chair
2008	Jim Dempsey	Webmaster, microfilm chair, liaison with Probate Court and Recorder’s Office
2010	Robert C. Rau	Author, speaker, volunteer at Family History Center
2014	Kenny R. Burck	Past president, author, German Interest Group chair, OGS trustee, FGS delegate
2015	Jean Morrison	Past President and all other board positions except treasurer. Chair of many committees.
2016	Jean Nathan	Years of outstanding service as Chapter President, Tracer Editor, Corresponding Secretary, Credentials Chair, German Lineage Society Chair, Newsletter Exchange Chair, Publications Chair, Ohio Genealogical Society District Trustee, a volunteer at the Norwood Family History Center, editor of genealogy books and articles and a myriad of other services to the genealogical community.
2017	Deb Cyprych	Tracer editor for fifteen years and now our Publications Director.
2018	Barbara Wegley	Corresponding Secretary since 1993, almost 25 years. She was also the Query Editor for The Tracer for many years.
2019	Julie M. Ross	For years of dedicated service as Editor of The Tracer, Membership Chair, as Transcriber of surnames from Hamilton County probate journal indexes before 1900 and from Recorder’s Office deed indexes from 1844 to 1869, as Co-indexer of two volumes of Catholic baptismal records, and as the current Liaison to the Cincinnati Catholic Archdiocese Archives.
2020	Eileen Muccino	For outstanding service as Membership Director 2005-2019. Editor of the award-winning Tracer since 2017 and an article contributor to that publication since 2011. Eileen has also hosted many membership renewal mailing stuffing parties and other committee meetings at her home. She has contributed to the other work of HCGS during her many years on the Board.
2021	Bob Brodbeck	For several years, Bob has performed outstanding and dedicated service as a member of the Digital Resources Committee and served as Chapter webmaster. As Digital Resources Director, he led the transition team to a new website provider after the last provider suddenly sold the business. Bob uses technology to facilitate successful virtual seminars, virtual Board meetings, and a series of “research opportunities from home” emails during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020-2021. This award was presented by a unanimous decision of the Board of Directors.

Awards of Merit

1998	Steve Hutzel	Gazette editor, German Interest Group chair
1998	Karen Everett	Education and seminar chair, instructor
1998	Joan Hughes	First Families chair
2000	Jean H. Morrison	Past president, Program chair, exchange editor
2000	Kenny R. Burck	Past president, author, German Interest Group chair, OGS trustee, FGS delegate
2001	Julie Ross	Tracer editor, Membership chair
2001	William Ross	Book sales chair
2002	Marjorie Mohr	Past president, treasurer, Membership chair
2004	Ann Hambrecht	Preservation director, Research Committee chair
2004	Barbara Wegley	Corresponding secretary
2004	Deb Cyprych	Tracer editor
2004	Jennifer Hershberger	Gazette editor
2005	Doris Thomson	Records transcriber for several books
2006	Bill Graver	Author, speaker, liaison with Recorder’s Office, Historical Society volunteer
2006	Rose Moore	Irish Interest Group chair
2007	Dan Jungclas	Webmaster, producer of Chapter CDs and DVDs
2008	Phyllis Litton	Queries chair for Tracer
2009	Bill Beltz	First Families Committee member
2009	Patricia Van Skaik	Manager of Genealogy & Local History Department at PLCH, Chapter liaison, speaker
2009	David Schroeder	Manager of Local History & Genealogy Department at Kenton County Public Library, speaker
2009	Ellen Imhulse	Index editor for Tracer
2010	Shirley Kaiser	German Interest Group chair
2010	Therese Bengel	Book sales chair
2011	John Tholking	First Families Committee member
2011	Mary Tholking	First Families chair
2011	Melanie Hunt	First Families Committee member
2011	Marjorie Burress	Author of several books
2012	Barbara Gargiulo	Publication director, publisher of Chapter books
2012	Carol Franz	Indexer of numerous records
2014	Jenny Moorman Davis	Managed project to create new website
2014	James Cissell	Visionary leadership, providing revolutionary access to Probate Court records so they could be digitized and uploaded to FamilySearch
2014	Liz Stratton	Director At-Large, Treasurer, initiated PayPal and Kroger Rewards program, Long-range Planning Digital Resources Committee chair, set direction for new website redesign
2014	Karen Klaene	First Families committee, First Families Committee co-chair for 10 years, assisted many members in applying to lineage societies
2015	Eileen Muccino	10 years as Membership Director
2015	Wayne Coates	Hamilton County Recorder - Vision and support of digitization Hamilton Co. property records for internet access and the creation of digital historic and genealogical indexes.
2016	Gail Burkholz	Years of outstanding service to the Board of Directors as the Credentials Chair, later renamed the Lineage Societies Director. For several years Gail has been coordinating the activities of the First Families, Settlers and Builders, and Century Families committees and the annual lineage society luncheon.
2016	Doug Magee	For outstanding, friendly, courteous and expert service to members of the Hamilton County Chapter of OGS and the public. Doug was often called the "Map Man" as that was his specialty, and always went above and beyond the call of duty to provide knowledgeable assistance to library patrons.
2017	Kathy Reed	For many years of service as our Recording Secretary, Program Director, and for creating and leading our new DNA Regional Interest Group.
2017	Dave Bossart	Transcribed thousands of surnames from Hamilton County deed indexes from 1844 to 1869.
2017	Kay Ryan	Transcribed thousands of surnames from Hamilton County deed indexes from 1844 to 1869.
2017	Patty Wagurak	Transcribed thousands of surnames from Hamilton County deed indexes from 1844 to 1869.
2017	Glenn Cornish	Transcribed thousands of surnames from Hamilton County deed indexes from 1844 to 1869.
2017	Ann Peterson	Transcribed thousands of surnames from Hamilton County deed indexes from 1844 to 1869.
2017	Julie Ross	Transcribed thousands of surnames from Hamilton County deed indexes from 1844 to 1869.
2017	Laura Vogel	Transcribed thousands of surnames from Hamilton County deed indexes from 1844 to 1869.
2018	Nancy Chouteau	Research and Preservation Director, assisting with Education classes, serving on the Digital Resources and the Spring Seminar committees. Nancy also leads the Roundtable Discussion Group meetings, teaches Meet & Greet programs with Library employees and assists in many other Board projects and responsibilities.
2018	Peggy Schmidt	For extracting and creating an indexed list, then creating and photographing memorials to Find-A-Grave for all Pre-WWI veterans who are buried in Hamilton County.
2018	David Pittinger	Over 30 years of civic leadership, outstanding public service and protecting and preserving historic records in the Recorder’s Office of Hamilton County, as well as his commitment to excellence and technological innovation by providing efficient access to millions of public records, and coordination with local libraries, historical and genealogical societies.
2018	Bob Brodbeck	For outstanding service as our Webmaster, serving on the Digital Resources committee, his guidance on publishing (on demand) HCGS books, his expertise in computing, assists in keeping us up-to-date with technological advances that help us fulfill our mission and accomplish our respective duties.
2019	Jane Edgar	For outstanding service as Editor of our quarterly newsletter, The Gazette, for nearly 10 years.
2020	Sarah Ater	Sarah, as Archivist for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, obtained approval from the Archbishop and worked with Jim Dempsey and Julie Ross to establish a research process and response system for genealogical requests for Catholic sacramental records.
2021	Mark Steinke	Mark earned this award for his role as the Corresponding Secretary for the last few years. Mark regularly visits the Chapter Post Office Box in Lockland to collect the mail (which can be quite heavy during membership renewal months), logs all mail entries, and redirects items for action. He also responds to all mailed inquiries, which include a wide assortment of topics. Mark serves on the Webinar Team and was previously HCGS Membership Director.
2021	Amy Hartman	Amy earned this award for outstanding service in her role as Chapter Social Media Coordinator. Amy initiates HCGS Facebook posts, which keep members up to date and encourage others to investigate the benefits of Hamilton County Genealogical Society. Amy’s social media skills bring the HCGS message to new generations of genealogists which is vital to our continued success.
2022	Geof Wyght, Debbie Moser, Chip Lehman and Nancy Dawley	Their awards were earned for years of outstanding service, commitment, and thorough transcription of thousands of names from previously unindexed Hamilton County deed books from 1830 to 1880 to provide indexes on the HCGS website for the benefit of local historians and genealogists.

Award of Recognition

2009

Kenny R. Burck

Past president, author, German Interest Group chair, OGS trustee, FGS delegate

Enduring Contribution to Genealogy

2017

Patricia Van Skaik

This award recognizes her 30+ year career at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. The highlights of her service were published in the April 2017 issue of The Gazette newsletter: https://goo.gl/m5sbhV.

Certificates of Appreciation

1998	Friends of the Public Library
2000	Jim Dempsey	HCGS Microfilm chair
2000	Staff of the History & Genealogy Department, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
2001	Gertrude Ross	Assisting with HCGS book sales
2002	Debbie Newman	Member of HCGS Research Committee
2002	Doris Thomson	Transcribing 10 volumes of Cincinnati death records for publication
2002	Janet Strithold	Member of HCGS Research Committee
2002	Marilyn Armstrong	Member of HCGS Research Committee
2004	Kay Ryan	Assisting with HCGS publications
2004	Mark Steinke	HCGS Membership chair
2006	Karen Beiser	Assistant Head of History & Genealogy Department, Public Library
2007	Paul Schewene	Supporting HCGS classes and programs
2007	Wib Everett	Assisting HCGS Education Director
2009	Eunice Beltz	Assisting HCGS First Families Committee
2010	Betty Bauscher	Indexing marriage banns for HCGS website
2010	Christopher Smith	Assisting with HCGS programs at Public Library
2010	Larry Dolan	Indexing marriage banns for HCGS website
2011	Colleen Phillips	Assisting genealogists at Public Library
2011	Cynthia Greenman	Member of HCGS Research Committee
2011	David Pittinger	Assisting researchers as Chief of Staff, Hamilton County Recorder’s Office
2011	Doug Magee	Assisting genealogists at Public Library
2011	Jean Widmer	Member of HCGS Research Committee
2011	Judge James Cissell	Probate Court Judge, led digitization of historic Probate Court records
2012	Barbara Wegley	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Bob Brodbeck	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Carolyn Engel	Indexing wills
2012	Dan Jungclas	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Dave Bossart	Indexing wills
2012	Debbie Judd	Indexing wills
2012	Dick Okenfuss	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Fred Schroeder	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Glenn Cornish	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Irma David	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Jeff Herbert	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Jerry Volker	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Judy Craven	Indexing wills
2012	Kathy Reed	Creating and maintaining HCGS blog
2012	Kay Ryan	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Liz Stratton	Indexing wills
2012	Marilyn Armstrong	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Peg Fay-Feder	Indexing Probate Court records
2012	Peter Frame	Indexing wills
2014	Bob Brodbeck	Creating new website
2014	Deb Cyprych	Creating new website
2014	Eileen Muccino	Creating new website
2014	Gail Burkholz	Creating new website
2014	Jane Fitzpatrick	Creating new website
2014	Jim Dempsey	Creating new website
2014	John Tholking	Creating new website
2014	Kathy Reed	Creating new website
2014	Kym Pitman	Research Committee for several years
2014	Alan Jones	Indexed the Tracer for three years
2014	Dave Bossart	Indexing Probate Journals
2014	Ann Peterson	Indexing Probate Journals
2014	Laura Vogel	Indexing Probate Journals
2014	Patty Wagurak	Indexing Probate Journals
2015	Jane Edgar	5 years as Editor of The Gazette
2015	Bob Brodbeck	Publication Director, CreateSpace assistance - Webmaster
2015	Amy Hartman	Social media presence - Digital Resources Director
2015	Pam Sattari	Civil War Cemetery project and Publication Director
2016	Julie Ross	For her outstanding efforts in coordinating a group of Chapter volunteers working at the Cincinnati Catholic Archdiocese Archives to locate and make available sacramental records for members and family historians.
2016	Sarah Patterson	As the Archivist at the Catholic Archives, for her interest and expertise in coordinating with Chapter members to develop a process for ordering Cincinnati Catholic Archives sacramental records that are a valuable resource to genealogists and family historians.
2016	Melanie Hunt	For her generous time and talent for over 25 years of serving the needs of the Chapter as a member of the First Families Committee, and working with the Chapter Lineage Committee to provide a meaningful experience for inductees to honor their First Families of Hamilton County ancestors.
2017	Beverly Breitenstein	For her years of leadership as the Century Families lineage society chair.
2017	Peggy Schmidt	For her service to the Civil War Cemetery project identifying, photographing and placing the data on our website.
2017	Kathe Edwards	Serves as the Irish Interest Group Chair, works with the Webinar Content Creation committee, volunteered at the Catholic Archives, and assisted with the Annual Seminar.
2017	Nancy Chouteau	For Director of Research & Preservation, for presenting programs with the Education Committee, assisting with the Annual Seminar, and working on The Tracer committee
2018	Sandra Morgan	She has and is continuing to work as our Recording Secretary, is on the Lineage Society and the Spring Seminar committees and she recently assumed the position of chair of the Century Families of Hamilton County.
2018	Rick Cauthen	For serving as the chair of the Jewish Interest Group, speaking on Jewish-related genealogical topics, coordinating the digitization of the Weil Funeral Home records, serving on the Digital Resources and the Spring Seminar committees and participating in many other Board-related events.
2018	Paul Cauthen	A regular contributor to the Board and assists Board members on numerous occasions. Paul also serves on the Digital Resources and the Spring Seminar committees.
2018	Nancy Dawley	For outstanding service and many hours of time to HCGS and to Hamilton County genealogists by index transcription to improve access to Hamilton County deed records.
2018	Sara Jones	For outstanding service and many hours of time to HCGS and to Hamilton County genealogists by index transcription to improve access to Hamilton County deed records.
2018	Chip Lehman	For outstanding service and many hours of time to HCGS and to Hamilton County genealogists by index transcription to improve access to Hamilton County deed records.
2018	Debbie Moser	For outstanding service and many hours of time to HCGS and to Hamilton County genealogists by index transcription to improve access to Hamilton County deed records.
2018	Steve Headley	For his dedicated service to the genealogical community, his contributions to Newsdex: An Index to Local Newspaper Articles, his knowledge of the library collection, his friendly manner in assisting patrons with their family history questions and providing them with resources within the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio.
2019	Mark Steinke	For serving as our Corresponding Secretary.
2020	Jean Nathan	For returning to the HCGS Board to serve as Program Director.
2020	Jean Woll	For returning to the HCGS Board to serve in a new Board position, Director of Marketing.
2020	Rudy Heath	For preserving historic records at the Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church. In 2012 he was asked to accept the records of the Nast German Methodist Church from 1838 to 2010 and Trinity Methodist Church from 1837 to 1955. He organized and inventoried the records using standard archival methodologies and containers. He and church volunteers then extracted and indexed the members’ names in many of the books. HCGS thanks Rudy for his excellent work in record preservation and for having the records digitized by staff at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
2021	Mark Cooper	As HCGS Membership Director, Mark was challenged by the pandemic to change the membership renewal process. In previous years, a large group got together to stuff envelopes with several items for a mass mailing. Mark, along with a few advisors, developed a new method where the majority of members received email notification, with only a few needing a mailed packet. This process precluded the need for in-person meetings with volunteers. Mark also volunteered to co-chair the new HCGS Civil War Soldiers Lineage Society, which was introduced this year.
2021	Paul Cauthen	Paul earned this award for his long-standing service as a Board advisor and his acceptance of the role of editor of the society newsletter, The Gazette. Paul introduced a new newsletter format in 2020, and gathers, edits, and delivers the Chapter news in a timely and high-quality manner.
2021	Martha Surber	Martha was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for her many years serving as Library Acquisitions Editor for The Tracer. Martha reviews purchases made by the Genealogy and Local History Department of CHPL and provides the details for publication in the Tracer. This information leads members and other readers to the newest history and genealogy books and new volumes of published genealogical series in the Cincinnati library collection.
2021	Kevin Grace	Kevin was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for his outstanding support of the genealogical community. Kevin recently retired from his role as the head of the Archives and Rare Books Library, University Archivist, and Senior Librarian at the University of Cincinnati. He was employed there for over forty years and was responsible for the development of rare book and archival collections. These items include many records used by genealogists and family historians. Kevin was responsible for acquiring the Hamilton County public records, as requested by the Ohio State Archivist, for permanent retention at the University of Cincinnati, and has worked with the Chapter on the digitization of records held in the UC Archives.
2022	Grace Evans and Dianne Jatzek	Their awards were earned for years of outstanding service, commitment, and thorough transcription of thousands of names from previously unindexed Hamilton County deed books from 1830 to 1880 to provide indexes on the HCGS website for the benefit of local historians and genealogists.
2022	Carol Wimer	Owner of InPrint Madeira, received a Certificate of Appreciation on 25 July 2022 for her longterm service to HCGS as designer and printer of the Tracer and other flyers, documents, and newsletters. Carol has been a partner in development and design of the society’s quarterly journal, and her high standards have aided HCGS in making the Tracer a nationally recognized publication.

page modified: June 2024