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The Georgia Room will be hosting a new class on Thursday, February 2nd at 2pm. This class, “Research in Richmond County” will, as the name implies, educate you on all the local resources and organizations available to help you in … Continue reading →

The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a webinar this Monday, January 9th at 7pm. The topic will be “The 1940 Census” and the webinar will be hosted by Constance Potter, Staff Archivist and Genealogy Specialist of … Continue reading →

Mark your calendars! Brad Cunningham will speak on January 23rd at the Friends of the Library meeting about the extremely interesting history of the Appleby Branch Library, which was once a private home. How did it become a library? Here’s … Continue reading →

We’ll be having several new classes in February. The first will be about Researching in Richmond County. It will be at 2:00 on February 2nd. The other class will be in the computer classroom on February 16th at 2:30. It … Continue reading →

Hello Augustans! The Georgia Room needs your help! We would like to add some photographs to our historic photographs collection. We already have pictures of the 1888 and 1908 floods. We are in desperate need of historic photographs of old … Continue reading →

Lots of new books in this week! We have early Virginia census books, South Carolina books (including a Union County Deed Abstracts book by Brent H. Holcomb), and a very interesting book about Aftrican American Creeks. They are on display … Continue reading →

Mr. Thomas Hill was kind enough to donate Dr. Adam Littleton’s Latin Dictionary to the library. It was published about 1703 in London and bought the next year. The book was owned by Dr. Beverly Allen Henry, who was a … Continue reading →

The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a webinar this Monday, December 12th at 7pm. The topic will be “Searching the NARA Website” and the webinar will be hosted by Mary Evelyn Tomlin, who works in Public … Continue reading →

Mark your calendars! Barbara Seaborn, the author of “As Long As the Rivers Run,” will be in the Georgia Room on January 14th at 2:00. Her book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Columbia County. Please … Continue reading →