The Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board and the Wisconsin Historical Society have announced the winners of the Governor’s Archives Awards for 2011; and Milwaukeean Penny Deshur has received one of them.
These awards recognize outstanding work in preserving and providing access to Wisconsin’s historical records.
Deshur of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee won the 2011 Award for Archival Advocacy. The award recognizes her work as a teacher, genealogist, community leader, and philanthropist. The advocacy award honors support for historical records work through organizational leadership, public advocacy and financial or volunteer contributions.
As co-chair of a Milwaukee Jewish Federation Women’s Division genealogy group, Deshur helped establish the Wisconsin Jewish Genealogical Society in 1989, and was the group’s president for ten years.
Deshur also serves as the Jewish Museum’s vice president of education and chairs its development committee; and she teaches genealogy classes in Milwaukee and surrounding communities.
She also devotes time to making Jewish burial records available online for researchers and genealogists at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee’s website.
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