Author Archives: genealogy

If anyone in your family was married in the western states, Brigham Young University hosts a index of those records. The index can be searched by bride or groom name. It lists the town or county of the marriage and … Continue reading →

The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar this Monday, July 9th at 7pm: “I Swear Allegiance: Federal Naturalization Records, 1790-1950.” The webinar is free and easy to use and you can sign up here: … Continue reading →

New books have arrived in the Georgia Room today! History of North Augusta, South Carolina, Volume 2 Oglethorpe County, Georgia Newspaper Clippings, Volume 1, 1874-1876 Laurens County, Georgia Newspaper Clippings, Volume 3, 1910-1911 Plus, the following books were written by … Continue reading →

Was your ancestor a Rebel or a Loyalist? In recognition of Independence Day, Ancestry.com is allowing non-subscribers free access to records of the 13 original colonies: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New … Continue reading →

Ancestry has more searchable states for the 1940 census. They are:  CO, DE, DC, ME, NV, NY, OH, PA, TN, VT, and VA. The western states are indexed at FamilySearch. The problem is that each state must be searched individually.

The Funeral Records of Crowe-Fields Funeral Home, Inc. (Formerly Fletcher Funeral Homes) are now in the Georgia Room. This funeral home served Burke, Jenkins, Screven, Emanuel, Richmond and Bulloch counties. The records run from 1937 to 1958 and were copied … Continue reading →

The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar this Monday, June 11th at 7pm. The topic will be “Railroad Retirement Records & Records of the CCC.”  The Friends’ website states “Since scope of each of … Continue reading →

New indexed states have been added to Ancestry’s 1940 Census. Now Nevada, Delaware, Washington D.C., Maine and New York are completed and searchable through Ancestry. FamilySearch has completed the indexing for more states than Ancestry has. Be sure to check … Continue reading →

This past February, Rob Pavey, from the Augusta Chronicle, wrote a story about the correspondence of Cornelia Polhill Miller that had been donated to the Georgia Room by John and Linda Beck. The letters, dated from 1848 to 1909, were … Continue reading →