Monthly Archives: March 2016

April 2016 Georgia Room Programming and Exhibits

PROGRAMMING Thursday, April 21 @ 6:00 pm Love Framed in Black and White: A Powerful Study in Love, Race and Courage Paula C. Wright, a descendent of the Edgefield, South Carolina Ramey family inherited at the time of her grandmother’s … Continue reading

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The Great Conflagration: Remembering Augusta’s 1916 Fire

Augusta University Libraries will host the program “The Great Conflagration: Remembering Augusta’s 1916 Fire” Join the AU Libraries as we remember the 100th Anniversary of the 1916 Augusta Fire on March 22, Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Reese Library … Continue reading

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March 2016 Georgia Room Programming

Wednesday, March 16 @ 2:00 pm The Secret Lives of Women: Researching Female Ancestors Using the Sources They Left Behind How do you research the women in your family? In some of the same ways you research men but you … Continue reading

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Georgia Girl: A Grandmother’s Place in History by David Henry Gambrell

For many, there is “a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we have come from.” (Alex Haley, author of Roots). For David Henry Gambrell, this was true. Armed with family lore, a … Continue reading

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