----- Original Message ----- From: "William A. Mills" <wa-mills@juno.com> To: <GAHOUSTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 12:41 AM Subject: [GAHOUSTO] Ken Thomas: 3 & 10 June 2001. > GENEALOGY FOR JUNE 3, 2001 BY KENNETH H. THOMAS, JR. > TOPIC: RESEARCH HOURS CHANGE, BE PREPARED > Paragraph: Anyone doing research in a library or archives, especially one > > they do not visit regularly, should always check ahead for their hours, > any > special holidays or closings, and to be sure you know the correct > location. > Using the Internet, one can find out this information much faster than > ever > before. Two local research institutions are planning changes. The Atlanta > > History Center of the Atlanta Historical Society, located in north > Atlanta on > West Paces Ferry Road, has an excellent library and archives and a > growing > genealogy collection. Due to the renovation of their building, the > library > will be totally closed from July 1 until August 7, dates subject to > change. > When they reopen, they will be in temporary quarters in the lower level > of > the museum building. While in the temporary location, many materials will > not > be readily available, but on an on-call basis. The library number is > 404-814-4040. Normal hours of operation are 10-5, Tuesday through > Saturday. > Paragraph: The National Archives-Southeast Region, located in East Point, > has > announced they will have extended hours for their microfilm reading room > starting July 21. They will be open the third Saturday of each month from > 7 > a.m. until 4 p.m through December. The Saturdays in July, August, October > and > November coincide with their genealogical workshop series. Reservations > are > required to use the microfilm machines, call 404-763-7477. Later this > year > they will hold workshops related to the opening of the 1930 Census in > 2002. > Their normal hours are 7-4, Monday through Friday, and on Tuesday they > are > open until 8 p.m. > TOPIC: CARROLL COUNTY HISTORY > Paragraph: The "Heritage of Carroll County, Georgia, 1827-2001" is in > preparation in conjunction with the local coordinating committee. The > committee has extended the deadline for sending in material for the book > until June 15th. Anyone wishing to send in family, church, club or other > organizational information should do so by that date or negotiate with > the > committee by then. Material should be sent to the Book Committee, P.O.Box > > 1224, Carrollton, GA 30117. The pre-publication cost of the book is > $57.98 > postpaid, made out to the Carroll County Heritage Book, address above. > Questions can be e-mailed to <A > HREF="mailto:MFWORD@aol.com">MFWORD@aol.com</A> or call 770-832-7746. > While this > should be a worthwhile project, this is another case of a local group not > > planning ahead to seek advance publicity for their efforts. Hopefully a > mention here will garner some more orders. Groups in other counties > should > try and get early publicity for their project as many people who no > longer > live in a county are just as interested in a county history as those > still > living in the county. As a further note, copies of the Heritage Book > Series > are rarely sent to this column for review, so this column may be your > only > tip that a county history is in progress. To find out about other county > books sponsored by the publisher that you may have missed, check <A > HREF="http://www.countyheritagebooks.com/"> > www.countyheritagebooks.com</A>. > > ==================== > > GENEALOGY FOR JUNE 10, 2001 BY KENNETH H. THOMAS, JR. > TOPIC: NEWSPAPER INDEXES ARE ALWAYS VALUABLE SOURCES > Paragraph: Two newspaper abstractors are continuing their series in their > > respective areas adding more valuable data to Georgia's genealogy > resources. > Jo Goodson Knight has just completed "Burke County Folks, Vol. III, > 1911-1920" which includes material taken from "The True Citizen" of > Waynesboro, Georgia. Her work in this original Georgia county fills a > great > gap since there has been no comprehensive county history and the pre-1856 > > records were lost in a courthouse fire. As with her earlier volumes, the > author has ferreted out of the newspaper all sorts of interesting news > items > about local residents, as well as some from nearby counties. By fully > recording them, she leaves the interpretation up to the reader. The > majority > of the information is marriages and deaths, but she has also found > articles > on churches, trials, and in this volume, the effect of World War I on the > > county with the deaths of many local boys overseas. The book was > published > with a Taylor Foundation grant and has a full-name index. It is available > for > $35 plus $5 postage from Jo Knight, 183 Knight Rd., Waynesboro, GA 30830. > > Paragraph: Elizabeth Evans Kilbourne has just published "Savannah, > Georgia, > Newspaper Clippings (Georgia Gazette), Volume III, 1786-1792." This > latest > abstract of vital genealogical and historical material from Georgia's > oldest > newspaper opens up this source for more in-depth research than ever > before. > Prior to this series, the access to all the Savannah newspapers was > through a > WPA-era all-name index, requiring one to go and look up the information > on > microfilm, and two other series of published abstracts of marriages, > deaths, > and legal notices. With this series, and this new volume, one can be in > Alaska and have rich reading about 18th-century Georgia. The author has > included the valuable genealogy data of marriages and deaths, and legal > notices, for Savannah and other counties, and then a whole host of > information about shipping, politics, the arrival of goods, the sale of > slaves, in other words, detailed information that the early Savannahians > were > reading about themselves. One can certainly get the flavor of the times > in > this book. Here I find that my own suspected ancestor, one Dennis > Nowland, > was a grand juror in Glynn County in 1787. Ms. Kilbourne and her father, > Tad > Evans, have done similar works on numerous other Georgia newspapers. > Published with a Taylor Foundation grant, this volume has been > distributed to > more than 30 libraries by the Foundation. For others, it is available for > $40 > plus $4 postage from Tad Evans, 1506 Stillwood Dr., Savannah, GA 31419. > TOPIC: HALL COUNTY CEMETERIES > Paragraph: "Tombstone Inscriptions of Hall County, Georgia," compiled by > Sybil McRay and first published in 1971, and "Index of the Tombstones of > Hall > County," compiled by Louise White also in 1971, have been reprinted and > are > available for $25 each from the Hall County Library System, 127 Main St., > > Gainesville, GA 30501. Call 770-532-3311, extension 116 for information. > It > is good that these are available again to add to the growing number of > Georgia county cemetery books available. > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > ==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== > Take advantage of the wonderful lookup offers > on the Houston Co., GAGenWeb site. Go to > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gahousto/hstlkps.html#anchor327687 > > >