News for Historians

GAHWNY Annual Meeting a Great Success!

The annual GAHWNY Conference, held on September 21, 2024, in Perry, was a great day of networking and educational programming. 

Posted October 2024
 

Consider the Source NY and Diversity & Collaborative Institutes 

Missed the events? Check out Consider the Source NY and watch a video about the initiative, which aims to connect educators (K-12 teachers and school librarians) and local historians. The project also creates regional centers to coordinate the digitization of historical records and add them to the statewide portal New York Heritage.

Posted May 2022 

GAHWNY Mission Statement

The Government Appointed Historians of Western New York (founded in 2008) is dedicated to the promotion, research, interpretation and preservation of history relating to the western portion of the State of New York.

The purpose of this organization is to provide assistance and support to its membership, which consists of all officially appointed local government historians: city, county, town and village historians; all duly appointed deputies/assistants of the same, and representatives appointed by the Seneca, Tonawanda or Tuscarora Nations within Western New York, which is comprised of the counties within the Niagara, Southern Tier, and Finger Lakes Regions of New York State.

The goal of this organization is to provide an administrative service that produces a website, an annual meeting, and programming that encourages the betterment of historians within Western New York through education and training.
 

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2025 Conference

Details TBA

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Dues: Please consider becoming a member for 2025.

GAHWNY Executive Board 2023-2024

President
Cindy Amrhein, Wyoming County Historian

Vice President
Tina Thompson, Henrietta Town Historian

Secretary
Holly Watson, Livingston County Historian

Treasurer
Valerie Griffing, Nunda Town Historian