Welcome to Associates in Action! This monthly feature highlights BCG associates’ news, activities, and accomplishments. Contact Alice Hoyt Veen to include your special news in an upcoming post.
Activities & Projects
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, MFA, CG, will teach two courses: Genealogy & Family History Writing and Tracing Immigrant Origins for the summer semester of Salt Lake Community College’s online Certificate in Genealogy Research and Writing program. Classes begin 16 May 2016. A lower tuition fee is offered to out-of-state students who do not need college credit. To enroll or for more information, go to http://www.slcccontinuinged.com/program/genealogy.
Awards & Achievements
Kathy Gunter Sullivan, CG, received the Elaine Spires Smith Family History Writing Award at the annual meeting of the Indiana Genealogical Society on Saturday, 16 April 2016. The $500 award, sponsored by the Society, honors an outstanding article published in the Indiana Genealogist. Kathy’s article, “Eliza Jane Henry of Putnam County, Indiana: Documenting Her Heritage,” has been published in the Indiana Genealogist 26 (December 2015): 5–32.
Publications
Paul Friday, CG, Vital Record Manuscripts at the State Historical Societies in New England (N.p: the author, 2016). This new book serves as a finding aid for New England vital records and includes a partial inventory of vital record manuscripts (church records, minister records, town vital records, tax lists, employment records, petitions, subscriptions, passenger lists, etc.) for all time periods at the six state historical societies in New England. Each record in the book includes the call number, manuscript collection name, box number, and (usually) the folder number (everything required to locate the record). Roughly forty-five percent of the items in the book do not appear in any of the societies’ catalogs; they are present in the manuscript finding aids only. Paul’s book is available at Amazon.com.
