----- Original Message ----- From: <AAlfaro99@aol.com> To: <undisclosed-recipients:;> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 3:06 PM Subject: (no subject) > > Kentucky Genealogy Society Presents Awards > > KGS President Al Alfaro presented awards during the 25th Annual 1999 KGS > Seminar on Saturday, August 14 at the Kentucky History Center. > The 1998 Landon & Ilene Wills Distinguished KGS Service Award was > presented to Roberta Peak Padgett, Frankfort, for her outstanding work of 13 > years as the volunteer Librarian of the KGS Library that was located at the > Kentucky Library & Archives until its recent move to the Kentucky History > Center Library. > Three 1998 Outstanding Service to Genealogy Awards were presented. > Western Kentucky recipient was Jerry Long, Owensboro, for his Bluegrass Roots > article, "Moving the Old Macedonian Baptist Church Cemetery". The Central > Kentucky award was presented to Mrs. Betty R. Darnell, Mt. Washington, for > her many magazine articles and the publishing of 16 books on Bullitt and > Spencer Counties, plus two family books. The Eastern Kentucky recipient was > Mrs. Sandra Stults, Georgetown, social studies teacher that encourages eighth > grade students to realize that people make history and to study genealogy as > a source of learning. > The 1998 KGS Editor's Award for outstanding articles in the KGS Bluegrass > Roots were presented to Charles F. Hinds and Cecil Webb, Frankfort. > Twenty-five Year KGS Certificates of Membership were presented to Charles > F. Hinds, Jo Allen Napier, Robert Peak Padgett, Mary Jane Rodgers and Ramona > Slattery, all from Frankfort.