Message From Our President

January 2016

Dear Members and Friends,

I and the officers of the Bond County Genealogical Society send our best wishes, hoping 2016 finds you happy and healthy. As always, we express our appreciation for your support. Without your membership fees and donations, our nonprofit organization would not be able to offer a selection of diverse library resources and family history research assistance. However, the time has come to ask for another type of support. We need your advice in regards to the type of speaker programs, workshops, and events you would enjoy attending. We need your interest in developing plans for future endeavors such as publications, tasks, and preservation projects Please join us at an upcoming meeting, contact me, or email BCGS with your ideas, advice, or suggestions.

In case you do not yet know me, let me introduce myself! I am Cindy Tischhauser, a proud wife, mother, graduate of Greenville College, and co-owner/manager of a small business in Greenville, Illinois that customizes, repairs, and services RVs, campers, and trailers. I am a member and active participant in Benjamin Mills Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. I’ve been researching genealogy for twenty years; documenting my own Woodward family of Marion County, and my husband’s Tischhauser family of Bond County. I am still in awe of many of our previous society leaders, editors, and research specialists; and unfortunately, as it always does with the passage of the years, most have passed on or reached their physical limit of volunteering ability. Our society has inherited several collections from these folks and we are gradually working to organize, inventory, and catalog the items. By doing so we expect to be even greater prepared to assist with incoming family research questions. If you’d like to help us inventory, be available to answer email queries, or assist visiting genealogists in our library, please let us know!

As I end this letter, I wish to thank Kevin Kaegy, our immediate past President, for the countless hours he dedicated to the Society these past seven years, relieving Carlos Hawley in 2008 despite his reservations of not being an experienced genealogist himself. As I’ve taken over as President of Bond County Genealogical Society since this past October, Kevin moved into the Vice President’s slot, allowing him more energy to dedicate to his presidency of the Bond County Historical Society. Both societies continue to meet jointly for Program meetings, and it is my hope that each society may soon have its own separate Business meeting sessions. Please watch our e-mailing list for those meeting notifications.

Sincerely,

Cindy Tischhauser
President, Bond County Genealogical Society