The Genealogy Guys Podcast, co-hosted by George G. Morgan and Drew Smith, announced on Thursday the winners of the Unsung Heroes Awards at RootsTech 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Unsung Heroes Awards acknowledge and celebrate members of the genealogy community who digitize, index, or transcribe documents of value to genealogical researchers.
The winners are:
Individual Award – Amy Hedrick has compiled and published a website about a number of Coastal Georgia counties, called GlynnGen.com. It includes court records, Bibles, cemeteries, African American, family, and other records. She has created and maintains the site at her own expense. Amy is an inspiration for what one individual can accomplish.
Society Award – Ontario Ancestors (Ontario Genealogical Society) has been prolifically digitizing and indexing records from unique microfilm collections, starting as early as 1750 to the 2000s. These include early newspapers, wills, church and municipal records held by their branches and local municipal libraries. Their databases include the Ontario Genealogical Society Huguenot Collection, Upper Canada land petitions, and the Ontario Genealogical Society Provincial Index.
LibraryAward – The Montana Genealogical Society Library resides in the Lewis & Clark Library in Helena, Montana. It consists of a moderate-sized collection of materials that belong to the Montana State Genealogical Society. Through a partnership with FamilySearch that began in 2019, the entire contents of the library’s genealogical collection are being digitized. The collection will be available on both the library and FamilySearch websites. This project is an inspiration to how a library can partner with FamilySearch to make its unique content available to the genealogical community.
