Monthly Archives: December 2016

Freemen’s Bureau Records Project Complete Thanks to FamilySearch

In conjunction with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and other organizations, FamilySearch completed a project to index and publish online images of Freedmen’s Bureau records from the United States National Archives and Records Administration. These … Continue reading

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Georgia Room Book Talk with James Robert Hester

Sunday, February 12, 2017 2:30 pm Augusta Public Library Auditorium A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen’s Civil War Journals Book Talk with Robert Hester The Civil War journals of a Northern abolitionist engaged in the Port Royal … Continue reading

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Research Your Family History in GALILEO

Public libraries in Georgia offer several online resources through GALILEO for researchers interested in their ancestry. Since all Georgia citizens have access to GALILEO through their public library, every person in Georgia has these genealogy resources at his or her … Continue reading

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