28 May 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Kathleen W. Hinckley, CGRS, Executive Director, Association
of Professional Genealogists
P.O. Box 350998, Westminster, CO 80035-0998
Phone 303-422-9371, fax 303-456-8825, e-mail admin@apgen.org
Prepared by: Richard F. Robinson, CGRS, Information Officer,
Association of Professional Genealogists, e-mail
rfr252@aol.com
The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) honored
Helen F.M. Leary, CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, of Cary, North Carolina on May 28, 2003
for her many “outstanding contributions” over the past quarter century to the
association and the genealogical community.
APG President Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA Scot, presented the
Grahame T. Smallwood Jr. Award of Merit to Leary at the group’s luncheon in
Pittsburgh during the National Genealogical Society Conference in the States.
The association’s Smallwood Award Committee selected the recipient.
Leary is a Certified Genealogist (CG), Certified
Genealogical Lecturer (CGL), Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists
(FASG) and Fellow of the National Genealogical Society (FNGS) and was a member
of the APG Board from 1989-90 and 1992-93.
She regularly performs “continuing service” in leadership
roles at association functions, including its Professional Management
Conference, according to the Smallwood Committee. A mentor to many members, she
encourages professional activities through lectures, teaching opportunities and
personal contacts.
Leary played a major role in establishing written
professional standards, described in the The BCG Genealogical Standards
Manual. She has served as co-editor of North Carolina Research:
Genealogy and Local History and contributor to Professional Genealogy: A
Manual of Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers and Librarians.
APG regularly presents the Smallwood Award, named after its
first recipient in 1981, to a member who has demonstrated personal commitment
and outstanding service to the association. APG, established in 1979, is the
leading worldwide professional organization of genealogists and related
professionals with more than 1,400 members.
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