Augusta Public Library Local History and Genealogy

Fold3 is offering free access to their Black History Records in honor of Black History Month. I don’t know how long this will last so hop to it!

http://go.fold3.com/blackhistory/?xid=1577

Augusta Genealogical Society is holding an all day workshop on Saturday, March 2, 2013. This workshop is for people who would like to learn how to search for their ancestors. It will last from 8:45 to 3:15 at the Covenant Presbyterian Church on Walton Way.

The cost of the workshop is $25 for members and $30 for non-members. The fee includes a box lunch and a “how-to” genealogy book. Deadline for registration is Wednesday February 27th.

Call 706-722-4073 or email AugustaGenSociety@comcast.net to reserve your place or for more information.

The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar on Tuesday, February 12^th at 2pm. The webinar is titled, “Exploring the Records of the Freedmen’s Bureau.”  The webinar is free and easy to use and you can sign up here: http://www.friendsnas.org/webinarSch.htm

by Aspasia Luster

Sign up now for the Heritage Scrapbooking Class. It will be held Saturday, February 9th at 2:00 in the Georgia Room on the third floor of the Augusta-Richmond Public Library. Preregistration is required. Aspasia Luster will lead the class. She has a lot of examples of Heritage Scrapbook pages to stimulate your creativity.

Bring a to 3 copies of your original pictures to scrapbook. This class is free. We will provide all the materials. See you there!

Georgia Heritage Room – 706-826-1511

If you have Irish ancestry, IrishCentral.com announced some exciting news! On Thursday, January 24th, findmypast.ie will release millions of free Irish records for the public to search online. You can read more about the records here: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Online-Irish-History-Day-launched-with-21-million-birth-marriage-and-death-records-released-187578211.html#ixzz2IcG0VRqa
To start searching on January 24th, 2013 or after, click here: http://www.findmypast.ie/

This January, Reese Library will host Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience exhibit. The traveling exhibition opening on Friday, January 18, examines the challenges faced by African-American baseball players as they sought equal opportunities in the sport beginning in the post-Civil War era.

Please join us for our opening night and reception on Friday, January 18 at 5:30. We will screen a special excerpt from Ken Burns’ Baseball that examines the early organization of African-American baseball. A panel discussion will immediately follow. Guest speakers will include former Negro American League baseball players, Carl Long and Cliff Layton. Chris Kane, Sports Director for WJBF News Channel 6, will moderate discussion. A reception and special unveiling of the exhibition will follow on the second floor of Reese Library.

Reese Library is only one of 25 libraries that has received the $2,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and we are very excited to bring such exciting programming to our new GRU community!

Please share this wonderful program with your students, friends, and family. All events are free and open to the public.

Reese Library Special Collections will be sponsoring a writer’s workshop for the “Augusta-Richmond County Journal” on February 2, 2013 from 11 am to 1 pm.  Dr. Russell Brown, the journal’s editor, will be available to discuss the writer’s guidelines and to offer critique on material written by students, faculty, and the community that might be suitable for inclusion in the publication.

Articles selected for the “Augusta-Richmond County Journal” deal primarily with historical topics relating to Augusta or Richmond County, Georgia from all time periods. This is an excellent opportunity to add professional writing credits to resumes for work or graduate school admission.

Dr. Russell Brown is a respected writer in local history whose works include: “A Flag for the Tenth Immunes,” in the books “Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917,” ed. Bruce Glasrud, (2011); “Our Connection with Savannah: History of the 1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, 1862-1865,” (2004); “From Greenhouses to Green Jackets: Some History and Personalities of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters,” with Vicki Greene, (2003); “Augusta’s ‘Pet Company’: The Washington Light Artillery of Augusta, Georgia,” (2001); “To the Manner Born: The Life of General William H.T. Walker,” (1994); and “Fallen in Battle: American General Officer Combat Fatalities from 1775,” (1988).

The Augusta-Richmond County History writer’s workshop is also the kick-off event for Reese Library Special Collections to offer extended hours for community users on the first Saturday of every month from 9 to 5 when Reese Library is in operation.

For more information call Special Collections at 706-667-4904 or email: spcoll@aug.edu
Thank you to Lillian Wan for bringing this to the attention of the Georgia Room.

ATLANTA — January 2, 2013

A nine-member working group will begin the planning work needed to ultimately transfer control and operation of the Georgia State Archives from the Georgia Secretary of State to the Board of Regents. The transfer requires passage of legislation that Governor Nathan Deal will propose in the 2013 session of the General Assembly.

The group’s purpose is to identify and research the immediate issues related to the transfer and bring these before University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby. The group will focus on the transition issues; long-term planning will be addressed if the transfer is completed.

This marks the first step in the potential transition, following the announcement earlier this fall by Gov. Deal and Secretary of State Brian Kemp to transfer the State Archives to the Board of Regents.

Kemp and Huckaby have met to discuss the next steps and are in full agreement to work closely together to do what is best for the State Archives.

Huckaby said, “Secretary Kemp has expressed his full cooperation and support of this transition effort and we look forward to working with him and his staff on this important part of the process.”

Dr. Tim Hynes, president of Clayton State University, will chair the working group. Other members include:

·       Dianne Cannestra, member, Friends of the Georgia Archives & History

·       Lorene Flanders, library director, University of West Georgia

·       Dr. Toby Graham, deputy university librarian and head of the Hargrett Library, UGA

·       Dr. Catherine Oglesby, professor of history, Valdosta State University

·       Richard Pearce-Moses, professor and director of the archival studies program, Clayton State University

·       Merryll Penson, executive director of Library Services, University System of Georgia

·       Dr. William Potter, university librarian and associate provost, the University of Georgia

·       Dr. Lamar Veatch, executive director of the Georgia Public Library Service

The group’s first meeting will be held in early January.

Thanks to Carol Waggoner-Angelton for forwarding this update to the Georgia Room.

Here is the 2013 webinar schedule for the Friends of the National Archives Southeast Region. Please check the website (http://www.friendsnas.org/webinarSch.htm) monthly in case the topic or webinar time has changed:

8 Jan 2pm

Sandra Crowley: Lights, Camera, Action! Turning Your Photos and Movies into a Family Story

An introduction to methods to technology that can be used to tell your family story combining a variety of items such as still photos, video, music, etc. to bring your story to life.

12 Feb 2pm

Angela Walton-Raji: Exploring the Records of the Freeman’s Bureau

12 Mar 2pm

Laura Prescott: loc.gov: Using Our Nation’s Library Online

9 Apr 2pm

Guy Hall, Archivist: Baseball

14 May 2pm

Paula Stuart-Warren, CG : Records of the Works Project Adminitration (W.P.A.)

4 Jun 2pm

Shane Bell, Archivist: Atomic Energy Finding Aid

9 Jul 2pm

Debbie Parker, Wayne CG: NA and Gentic Genealogy in 2013

13 Aug 2pm

J. Mark Lowe, CG : Mining the Records of the Federal Distirct Courts

10 Sep 2pm

Maureen Hill, Archivist: Records of the Tennessee Valley Authoriity (TVA)

8 Oct 2pm

Linda Woodward Geiger, CG, CGL: Documenting Cherokee Heritage

12 Nov 2pm

Nathan Jordan, Archivest: Southern Home Front, WW II

 10 Dec 2pm

Selma Blackmon: Treasures at the National Archives at Atlanta

Here are some upcoming events at ASU, soon to be GRU:

The Martin Luther King Jr. program will be hosted by the Summerville campus of
Georgia Regents University (GRU) on Friday, January 18, at noon in the Maxwell
Performing Arts Theatre.  The featured speaker will be Dr. Louis V. Baldwin of
Vanderbilt University on “Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. in the Age of Obama.”

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