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Wednesday, May 4 2:00 pm Getting Started Researching your Jewish Ancestors Whether you have a Jewish ancestors or have a desire to assist others, this webinar will step you through the recommended research process. Presenter Jennifer M. Alford will present … Continue reading →

Published last year, Wright State University associate professor of history, Dr. Noeleen McIlvenna’s work, The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South, 1733-1750 explores the first twenty years of Georgia’s establishment as a free labor … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

The Georgia Heritage Room is honored to annouce that Ms. Paula C. Wright will be here on Thursday, April 21st at 6:00 pm to present: LOVE FRAMED IN BLACK & WHITE: A POWERFUL STUDY IN LOVE, RACE, AND COURAGE Paula … Continue reading →

Wednesday, February 10 @ 2:00 pm Researching Ancestors in the Era of Freedom The end of the Civil War was a time of great upheaval for both blacks and whites, but luckily for genealogists, many of the records produced during … Continue reading →

Over the last 25 years or so Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas’ life has been the subject of study among scholars of Southern history, particularly as it relates to the Civil War and women’s history. Like many women born into the … Continue reading →

The end of the Civil War was a time of great upheaval for both blacks and whites, but luckily for genealogists, many of the records produced during this time can be invaluable for overcoming brick walls in their family history … Continue reading →