DGS Heritage Award Given to the TXGenWeb Project

"The Heritage Preservation award is presented annually to an individual, group, or organization in recognition of contributions to preserve, conserve, house, or collect family history. Past recipients in this category cover many varying types of genealogical and historical preservation endeavors.

"The TXGenWeb is part of the USGenWeb® project and is the largest state project, with 254 counties. For over twenty five years, as a total volunteer project, County Coordinators collect and preserve resources ranging from transcriptions of various cemetery, church and court records, historical photos, military, vital records, county histories and more. They continue to seek historical records to transcribe and preserve making records freely available to both genealogical and historian researchers."

Gina Heffernan