The Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County was very proud, pleased, and honored to nominate Nancy Krohn for the 2011 Lucy Mary Kellogg Award, and absolutely delighted she has won!

Nancy is the backbone of our society, the one we turn to for advice when decisions need to be made.

In January 1981, she became an Assistant to the Editor of Family History Capers, which is our quarterly publication. By October 1981, she was named editor. Under Nancy’s editorship, the publication has continued to show high scholarship and a wide variety of genealogical research. Varied topics have flowed from Nancy’s pen, including an ongoing production of naturalizations found at the County Courthouse, carefully copied and checked by Nancy herself. Our own society recognized the years of effort Nancy expended on the Capers with an MGC Certificate in 1992.

Nancy and Mary Liskow edited the hardbound book, the 1856-1864 Washtenaw County Atlas, published in 1997, a work begun years earlier but brought to completion by Nancy’s bulldog-like tenacity.

Nancy also has been very active with our Research Committee, answering research requests which come to us in the mail, since about 1982. She was the Acting Chairperson, beginning in 1999, and is now the Chair. She also has been involved with our Library Committee, gathering workers, shelving materials, printing acquisitions, and even helping to move the library several times.

She also spearheaded an effort to make the county death records more available, which involved permission from the County Clerk to allow LDS to produce and sell us the microfilm in 1989.

She has furthered the knowledge of newer members of our society by teaching classes and has participated in numerous panels.