The American Society of Genealogists has awarded four Continuing Genealogical Research Grants for the 2025 grant cycle. This year, the ASG received thirty-two grant applications, plus several more which arrived late, and for which the authors are encouraged to apply in a future cycle. The range and excellence of our top choices is impressive. The ASG deems it an honor to contribute to such scholarship. Being chosen for the ASG grant provides both funding and enthusiasm to complete valuable projects. Here are the four 2025 grant recipients:

Michelle Tucker Chubenko: “A Genealogist’s Guide to Austrian Land Cadastres for the Crownland of Galicia.” Around the year 1900, many Austro-Hungarians entered the United States, but when the U.S. declared war in 1917, all 3 million U.S. residents from the empire were declared enemy agents. Tracing their origins now is aided by precise mapping of landownership and meaningful boundaries. Funds will support transcription in the necessary languages and access to these under-used and little understood Austro-Hungarian records.

Yvonne Captain, PhD: “The Importance of the African Union Methodist Protestant (A.U.M.P.) Church of Delaware to the African Diaspora.” This well-developed project on African Diaspora Church denominations seeks to explore the origins that led to the AUMP Church’s present-day status. Dr. Captain will demonstrate how genealogy and university-level scholarship intertwine. Funds will support interviews with families of existing and defunct churches within the denomination, including family members who were children when the Church peaked in the 1970s. Time at the Delaware Historical Society and collecting artifacts round out this phase of the project. Later research involves scholars at colleges and universities, their students, and community members mostly in the Delmarva region. They will help see the project through by mounting exhibits and, finally, publishing.

Kahealani Martins Curammeng: “Portuguese Heritage in the Hawaiian Kingdom.” This mature program (already over 44,500 entries on over 20,000 Portuguese who came to work Hawaii fields, 1878–1913) will concentrate on earlier arrivals who were less documented than later ones. Ms. Curammeng previously published They Came in Ships to Terra Nova (Legacy, 2023, 308 pp.). Her team project is a 501c3 non-profit. Funds will support research and the creation of a digital archive and interactive presentations.

Emily H. Garber: “American Jewish Genealogy: From the Past to the Future.” This project is a timely synthesis of Jewish genealogy perspectives to be gained through an inspired, focused collection of interviews with leading scholars and study of papers of very senior contributors to the field, including those of Rabbi Malcolm Stern, FASG. Funds will support travel, access, and research on this well-defined project.