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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 →

Related to a horse thief? Did your great grand uncle go awol from the army? Every family has skeletons in the closet. On June 7th at 6:30 the Georgia Heritage Room will have a Black Sheep Genealogy Class where you … Continue reading →

The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar this Monday, May 14th at 7pm. The topic will be “Social Networking- New Horizons for Genealogists.” According to the Friends of the National Archive website, “Thousands of … Continue reading →

The date for the Beginner’s Genealogy class has been moved to Saturday, June 23 at 2pm. The class will be held in the Georgia Room and preregistration is required. For more information and to preregister please call the Georgia Room … Continue reading →