May 2014 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded: 14th Anniversary!
My father's side of the family is Carpatho-Rusyn, so I've been a member of the C-RS since it first launched and I recently spoke at the society's 20th anniversary event.
March 2014 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded
Fore-Kin Trails Genealogical Society in Montrose, Colorado will use their grant to purchase a large flatbed scanner for digitizing a variety of records
February 2014 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded
Carol Franks is on a personal mission to ensure that irreplaceable White County, Georgia documents are preserved. To this end, she creates digital copies of records found only in filing cabinets at the local library and will use her grant for an external hard drive with auto and cloud backup.
January 2014 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded
A grant has been given to Jonathan Puckett for planning Clarke-Day-Puckett family reunions, printing genealogical histories, preserving old family artifacts, etc.
November 2013 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded
Grant to address preservation measures to cope with humidity in the manuscript room and to protect a rare 1878 map showing family names and landholdings.
December 2013 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded
Grant to purchase archival supplies for research on the event at Grand Central Station (NYC) resulting in the destruction of the Grand Central Depot.
October 2013 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded
Seymour Public Library offers genealogical and local history workshops and will use this grant to purchase a mobile-scanning unit for public use
September 2013 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded
The Wyoming Room (of Sheridan Fulmer Public Library) will use the grant to purchase a scanner to digitize and catalog Sheridan, Wyoming City directories.
The First LUCKY 13 Grant Has Been Awarded
13 grants to purchase family treasures from pawn stores, do the detective work to track down descendants of the original owners, and return the item to that family.
Genealogy Grant Awarded to Daviess County Public Library
Grant for a local history project called "Voices of Elmwood." They will research people buried in Elmwood Cemetery and have actors reenact their lives during a hayride through the cemetery.