Previous Year’s Contest Entries: 2015, 2014 Entry #1 The Dark Side of My Family History I’ve been a history buff for as long as I can remember. A few years ago I became curious about my own family’s history. I started an Ancestry account and began tracing my ancestors. My second great grandfather’s name was […]
I Found It In the Archives 2014 Ohio State-wide Competition Results Deborah Clark Dushane is the winner of the I Found it in the Archives contest with her essay “If He Hadn’t Shot the Town Sheriff….” that received 46% of the total 1257 votes. Deborah will be given a VIP tour of the Ohio State […]
Vote for your favorite “I Found it in the Archives” experience! Read the 2014 “I Found it in the Archives” state finalist essays on the “I Found it in the Archives” Contest Entries page. Voting begins August 18, 2014 and ends August 31, 2014. See the “I Found it in the Archives” contest page for […]
Entry #1 Genealogy Rule #1: The best ‘finds’ are the ones you were not looking for. When I located the birth certificate at OHC for Charles Haddock, my maternal greatgrandfather, I discovered that his father’s name was Jasper Haddock, an ancestor previously unknown to my family. Then, in OHC’s newspaper microfilm archive, I found Jasper’s […]
“Found It In the Archives” Blog The Advocacy and Outreach Committee has created a new blog feature based on the “I Found It in the Archives Contest” where anyone who has discovered a “treasure” while searching an archive can share that discovery on the Society of Ohio Archivists’ webpage. To make an entry, please visit […]
Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Meeting, May 2024 The Society of Ohio Archivists is planning a hybrid Annual Meeting on Thursday (virtual only) and Friday (hybrid), May 16-17, 2024. The in-person portion of the conference (Friday, May 17) will be held at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio.
Ohio Archives Month Spotlights: Cleveland Police Historical Society and Museum The Society of Ohio Archivists Advocacy and Outreach Committee is happy to announce that we will be spotlighting archives around the state again this year to celebrate archives month throughout October 2023. Each of our archives spotlights will feature places that house materials related to the theme […]
Ohio Archives Month Spotlights: The University of Akron Archives and Special Collections The Society of Ohio Archivists Advocacy and Outreach Committee is happy to announce that we will be spotlighting archives around the state again this year to celebrate archives month throughout October 2023. Each of our archives spotlights will feature places that house materials related to […]
Ohio Archives Month Spotlights: University of Dayton’s Hidden Aviation Gems The Society of Ohio Archivists Advocacy and Outreach Committee is happy to announce that we will be spotlighting archives around the state again this year to celebrate archives month throughout October 2023. Each of our archives spotlights will feature places that house materials related to the theme […]
Ohio Archives Month Spotlights: Inland Rivers Library, Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library The Society of Ohio Archivists Advocacy and Outreach Committee is happy to announce that we will be spotlighting archives around the state again this year to celebrate archives month throughout October 2023. Each of our archives spotlights will feature places that house […]