GACARROL-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > GACARROL-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 72 > > Today's Topics: > #1 research trip to Carroll County [Ptm2754@cs.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from GACARROL-D, send a message to > > GACARROL-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: research trip to Carroll County > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:24:12 EST > From: Ptm2754@cs.com > To: GACARROL-D@rootsweb.com > > I'm trying to plan a research trip to Carroll County. I've never been there. > Does anyone out there have any good tips? Are all the records in the > courthouse or is there an annex or some other place where older records are > stored? Is there a library with a good genealogy department? What about > hotels? > > I'll be trying to find the names of the parents of my gr-gr-grandparents (and > anything else about them): > > John Hale GIPSON (or GIBSON), aka: Hails GIPSON, b: June 1849 in Georgia, and > Mary DEAN, b: 1860 in Georgia, m: January 16, 1870. > > They were married in Carroll County in 1870. Still there in 1880. In 1900 > they were in Heard County. Not sure after that. Don't know when they died > or where they are buried. Have nothing on them prior to marriage date. Have > very little information on them at all. > > Their granddaughter (and my grandmother) will be 90 in January. She never > knew any of her grandparents. Grandma is really enjoying my family search. > I only wish I had started this years ago. I'm trying to find as much as I > can for her before she's gone, too. > > Any information will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Pam Pam: I don't know the answers to your other questions, but if you happen to be in the neighborhood of Carrollton, I'd like to recommend the Maple Street Inn for your stay. It's a wonderful bed and breakfast in the 1910 home of my great uncle John Appleton Mandeville. The inn is graciously run by Jim and Marlene Uglum. If you're looking for Southern hospitality and something distinctive from a chain hotel, give them a call. 770-214-8950. Address is 338 Maple St., Carrollton, GA 30117. Rates as of July, '99 (which is when our family stayed there) were $69-89. And as for a unique restaurant, again in Carrollton, right across the street from the Inn is the Maple Street Mansion restaurant, which is in a 3-story Victorian home, built in 1890's by my great-grandfather Leroy Clifton Mandeville. Again, if you're in the Carrollton area, and want something unique to the locale, you might be interested. Food was excellent. Sorry I can't help on the other matters...we were only visitors there ourselves. Good luck with your search! Susan Patton Hamersky Woodland Hills, CA