Curt Witcher is the Senior Manager for Special Collections at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN. In that capacity he manages the widely acclaimed Genealogy Center as well as the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection of Abraham Lincoln related research materials.  Curt is the project lead on the library’s digitization initiatives--initiatives that include partnerships with FamilySearch International, the Internet Archive, Ancestry.com, ProQuest, Fold3, and WeRelate. He also coordinates a growing number of free, searchable data files at GenealogyCenter.org. He is in his thirty-eighth year of service at the Allen County Public Library.

Curt is a former president of both the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society, and the founding president of the Indiana Genealogical Society.  He currently serves as the Federation of Genealogical Societies’ 2018 co-conference chair. Curt also serves on the Indiana State Historical Records Advisory Board and the publications committee of the Indiana Historical Society.

Curt was distinguished in 1995 as a fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association (FUGA) and received the Federation of Genealogical Societies' Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award, in 1997.  Curt was recognized in 2006 by being named the first fellow of the Indiana Genealogical Society.  He was honored in May of 2007 with the National Genealogical Society’s P. William Filby award for outstanding, life-time contributions to genealogical librarianship. Indiana’s lieutenant governor recognized Curt’s work in the summer of 2016 with a Hoosier Hospitality Award, and the Dallas Genealogical Society awarded him the Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Distinguished Service Award in December 2016 for outstanding contributions to the genealogical community on a national level.