THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 2007
Commonwealth Award
Presented to Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society
The Commonwealth Award recognizes other societies or organizations within the state for performing outstanding service in the promotion of genealogical study. Achievements in this area would include maintaining a genealogical research library, preserving local records, improving genealogical education through special projects, compiling widely-accessible electronic databases, and producing high-quality publications.
The Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society was organized in 1987 to preserve and share records with persons having an interest in the Virginia counties of Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania, and Halifax and the Virginia independent cities of Danville and Martinsville, as well as the North Carolina counties of Rockingham, Caswell, and Person. The society has a room in the Danville Public Library that was built on to the library to accommodate their large collection of over 5,000 books, CDs and other resources that they own. The library room is staffed entirely by volunteers who, for a nominal fee, help members that live at a distance. They have a fine collection of Family Tree Maker CDs and vertical files to assist researchers.
The society holds meetings ten times a year and publishes a quarterly that concentrates on records from Pittsylvania, Halifax, Franklin, and Henry Counties in Virginia and Rockingham, Caswell and Person Counties in North Carolina. Their collections cover all of Virginia and other states as well. In addition to the Quarterly, they have other publications for sale. Many Pittsylvania County Cemeteries have been catalogued and are for sale. We are pleased to recognize the contributions the Piedmont Society has made to the genealogical community.
Commonwealth Award
Presented to Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society
The Commonwealth Award recognizes other societies or organizations within the state for performing outstanding service in the promotion of genealogical study. Achievements in this area would include maintaining a genealogical research library, preserving local records, improving genealogical education through special projects, compiling widely-accessible electronic databases, and producing high-quality publications.
The Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society was organized in 1987 to preserve and share records with persons having an interest in the Virginia counties of Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania, and Halifax and the Virginia independent cities of Danville and Martinsville, as well as the North Carolina counties of Rockingham, Caswell, and Person. The society has a room in the Danville Public Library that was built on to the library to accommodate their large collection of over 5,000 books, CDs and other resources that they own. The library room is staffed entirely by volunteers who, for a nominal fee, help members that live at a distance. They have a fine collection of Family Tree Maker CDs and vertical files to assist researchers.
The society holds meetings ten times a year and publishes a quarterly that concentrates on records from Pittsylvania, Halifax, Franklin, and Henry Counties in Virginia and Rockingham, Caswell and Person Counties in North Carolina. Their collections cover all of Virginia and other states as well. In addition to the Quarterly, they have other publications for sale. Many Pittsylvania County Cemeteries have been catalogued and are for sale. We are pleased to recognize the contributions the Piedmont Society has made to the genealogical community.