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Continuing Genealogy Research Grants: 2024 Grant Cycle Now Open

The American Society of Genealogists announces 2024 Continuing Genealogy Research Grants. Four grants of $2500 each are available. Grant projects can involve a wide spectrum of genealogical interests. More details, and descriptions of grants given in 2022 and 2023, are available on our website at this link, along with an application packet. The application deadline for this cycle is March 1, 2024.

These grants were established by ASG in 2022 as a limited program to assist genealogists with the unfinished, un-started, or “back burner” projects we all have on our desks waiting for financial aid to help cover researching/writing time, costs of supplies, fees, travel, and other usual genealogical research expenses.

Reception to the program has been remarkably rewarding, attracting superior projects that will be valuable to many researchers and writers. Last year we received 17 applications for four grants. We expect that number will rise as news spreads of the impressive work the grants are supporting.

Photo Archive: 2023 Annual Meeting

The Society’s 85th Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, October 28, 2023, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with 39 Fellows in attendance, 14 in person and 25 by videoconference. Some of the remote and in-person attendees posed together:

Left to right: Joslyn, Murphy, T. Jones, Garrett-Nelson, J. Anderson, Gumina, Dearborn, Bamberg, Williams, Stott, Hoff, Johnson, Saxbe. Not pictured: Taylor.

Some remote attendees:

Row 1: Rose, Remington, Mathews, Sanborn, Hart.
Row 2: Harris, W. Fiske,  Baldwin, Hinchliff, Mills.
Row 3: H. Jones, Smith, Dobson, Reed, J. Fiske.
Row 4: Sperry, Hatcher, Battle, Hill, Byrne.
Row 5: West, C. Hansen.
Not pictured: J. Hansen, Hyde, Mahler.

 

Jari C. Honora, CG, receives ASG Scholar Award

The ASG Scholar Award rewards talented genealogists with stipends to pursue advanced academic training in genealogy. At its annual meeting on October 28, 2023, the American Society of Genealogists granted the ASG Scholar Award to Jari C. Honora, CG, of New Orleans, Louisiana, for his unpublished monograph, “Rooted in Revolution, Radicalism, and Race: The Roudanez Family.” Mr. Honora plans to use the award to attend the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research in 2024.

Descendants of Thomas Snell Receives the 2023 Donald Lines Jacobus Award

At the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Genealogists on October 28, 2023, the Society voted to give its Donald Lines Jacobus Award to Descendants of Thomas Snell (1634–1725) of Fillongley, Warwickshire, England and Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Baltimore, Maryland: Otter Bay Books, 2019), by Stephen F. Snell.

A mid-seventeenth-century immigrant to Bridgwater, Plymouth Colony, is traced in the classic five-generation format in all lines, covering about two thousand descendants. An extraordinary feature of this work is an appendix presenting images and transcriptions of eighty-four documents handed down in the Snell family, including thirty original deeds from 1677 through the eighteenth century, many of them (including the earliest) never recorded in their appropriate jurisdictions, and therefore not available elsewhere.

Darcie Hind Posz Elected 173rd Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists

The Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists held their annual meeting on Saturday, October 28, 2023. Darcie Hind Posz of Washington, District of Columbia, was elected to the Society as its 173rd Fellow.

Ms. Posz, a Certified Genealogist, has worked professionally as a librarian, genealogist, or researcher for private hereditary societies and the federal government, including the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S. Department of the Interior), and, currently, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (U. S. Department of Defense). She has balanced professional research employment with a tireless record of service to scholarly genealogical organizations including the Board for Certification of Genealogists, National Genealogical Society, Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (GenFed), and Association of Professional Genealogists.

As a genealogical writer, Ms. Posz has, to date, published two books and dozens of articles in national and specialized genealogical journals. Not only are her publications substantial in quantity and quality, but they cover an unusually wide demographic, geographical, and methodological range. Ms. Posz is expanding our acquaintance with the great breadth of American genealogy, and doing so in style.

American Society of Genealogists Announces 2023 Continuing Genealogical Research Grants

The Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists are pleased to announce the four 2023 winners of the ASG Continuing Genealogical Research Grants.

Shahidah Ahmad of Watertown, Mass., to collect, digitize, and index information about African Americans buried in Holly Hill and Cottageville, South Carolina, by interviewing residents over age 65 and using local knowledge to identify individuals and family buried in those towns, map communities, and create photographic, scanned and digital images linked with Excel master list to fill the void of less documented rural towns as an example for South Carolinian family historians. Shahidah is an Independent Genealogy Researcher and former Treasurer and Presenter of the African American Genealogical and Historical Society – New England.

Richard de Boer of Harlingen, The Netherlands, to prepare an English language overview of preserved genealogical sources (microdata) in six Western Balkans countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania, addressing the problem of language barriers and difficulty in retrieving and accessing sources. Among sources to be used are church registers and censuses, war victim lists, Ottoman tax registers and land cadastres, with the goal of publishing an overview of records by country, region, and ethnoreligious community. Richard is a professional journalist from The Netherlands, and administrator of the website www.exyugenealogy.net (“Sources for post-Yugoslav Family History”).

Stephanie Mills Trice of Silver Spring, Maryland, to lead a group of volunteers in identifying families buried at Mount Zion Baptist Church, the oldest African American graveyard in Macon, North Carolina, that dates to 1879, when field stones and periwinkle marked the graves, and for which there is no known record of interments. They will be using interviews with living story tellers, funeral programs, obituaries, photographs and digital documents, which are to be stored locally in Warren County. Stephanie is a Volunteer Oral Historian and Collaborative Partner in the Facing East 158 Voice Project of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Jamie Wasilchenko of Newaygo, Michigan, to gather records on the population of the village of Horodylovychi in Galacia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was destroyed in 1939, with many of its residents, including Ukranians, Poles and Jews, forcibly removed to Soviet territory. She will be using records of the Greek Catholic church she located in the Polish State Archives that were believed to have been lost. Records of baptisms, marriages, and burials for 1873 to 1937 (about 300 pages) will be indexed and made available through the Polish Genealogical Society and placed in repositories in Ukraine and Poland, both online and offline. Jamie is a Professional Genealogist, ShiftingSandsGenealogy.com.

The ASG Continuing Genealogical Research Grant program was established in 2022 by the American Society of Genealogists. A decision about funding grants for 2024 will be made at the Fellows’ Annual Meeting in October 2023. Interested parties may obtain information from Alicia Crane Williams, FASG, Chair, Grants Committee, acwcrane@aol.com. Or write to her at 4 White Trellis, Plymouth, MA 02360-7790.

Information Now Available for 2023 Research Grant Cycle

Updated information on the ASG Grants for Continuing Genealogical Research Projects has now been placed online here for the 2023 cycle. While in 2022 applications and awards were on a rolling basis, the 2023 awards will be on a set cycle with an application deadline of March 1, 2023.

Further information is at our page Awards > Grants for Continuing Genealogical Research Projects, including the downloadable 2023 Research Grant information and application packet.

Kathrine C. Aydelott receives ASG Scholar Award

The ASG Scholar Award rewards talented genealogists with stipends to pursue advanced academic training in genealogy. At its annual meeting on October 15, 2022, the American Society of Genealogists granted the ASG Scholar Award for 2023 to Kathrine C. Aydelott, MLIS, PhD, of Raymond, New Hampshire, for her unpublished work, “Darius Andrews of Sumner, Maine: A Descent from Henry Andrews of Taunton, Massachusetts.” Dr. Aydelott will use the award to attend the Boston University Certificate Program in Genealogical Research in 2023.

Photo Archive: 2022 Annual Meeting

The Society’s 83rd Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, October 15, 2022, in Salt Lake City, with 38 Fellows in attendance, 16 in person and 22 by videoconference:

Row 1 (seated): T. Jones, Hyde, Dearborn, Stott.
Row 2 (standing): Johnson, Saxbe, Reed, West, Taylor, Sperry, J. Anderson, Battle, Mahler, Murphy.

The zoom attendees projected above the in-person attendees in the above portrait can more clearly be seen here:Row 1: Bamberg, [meeting room feed], Baldwin, J. Hansen, Byrne.
Row 2: Joslyn, Mathews, Hart, Sanborn, Williams.
Row 3: H. Jones, Dobson, C. Hansen, Hatcher, Smith.
Row 4: Mills, Garrett-Nelson, J. Fiske and W. Fiske, Lennon, Harris.
Row 5: Dwyer, Arthaud.