When: January 12th (Saturday) at 2:00pm
Where: Georgia Heritage Room, Third Floor
For anyone interested in learning about their family and genealogy, we will hold a beginners’ genealogy workshop on Saturday, January 12th at 2 pm in the Georgia Heritage Room. The class will last around an hour. We recommend that patrons collect a few names of relatives who were born before 1930 beforehand to work with. We will learn how to fill out genealogy charts and where and how to start researching.
Here’s a little present from Augusta! GIS Maps for Augusta have gone mobile. Download Augusta Maps (that’s the name of the app) today for your iPhone or iPad. It is available at the iTunes App Store and it is free. Works great, too!
Here is a link to a demo and information about it at the Augusta Richmond website.
http://www.augustaga.gov/index.aspx?NID=1277
The Augusta Genealogical Society has updated, expanded and revised the Summerville Cemetery book. The 2012 edition contains, “our 1990 publication… and an addendum which includes an updated survey of the cemetery, corrections to the original publication, and a combined All-Name Index.”
The book is available for $35 plus $5 shipping and handling. Checks can be mailed to:
Augusta Genealogical Society
PO Box 3743
Augusta, GA 3014-3743
Credit cards are not accepted at this time and if you have questions, you can call the Society at 706-722-4073 or email them at augustagensociety@comcast.net.
by Aspasia Luster
Starting January 1st, the Georgia Room will be operating under new hours:
Monday – Friday: 9-5
Saturday: 1-5
Sunday- closed
If you ever forget our hours or want to doublecheck our hours of operation, you can call the Georgia Room directly at 706-826-1511.
by Aspasia Luster
The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar this Monday, December 10th at 7pm. The webinar is titled, “Jump Start a New Year’s Resolution: Using Spreadsheets to Help Organize Your Research .” NARA staff member “Linda Geiger will demonstrate a variety of uses for MS Excel (applicable to other spreadsheet programs) relating to genealogical and historical research.” The webinar is free and easy to use and you can sign up here: http://www.friendsnas.org/webinarSch.htm
Within the next few months, FamilySearch will introduce Family Tree. The first of many updates planned for FamilySearch.org, Family Tree will bring collaborative web tools together with the resources of the world’s largest genealogy organization to create a free and engaging way to discover, preserve, and share your family history.
Watch a special introductory video that covers the basics of how Family Tree works.
Family Tree will enable you to:
Family Tree offers an easy way for everyone to work together on shared family lines. Family Tree is also integrated into the search feature on FamilySearch.org, so you can find records for the people in your family tree and attach the records as sources for those particular ancestors.
If you have questions about what Family Tree will be like or how it will work, you can visit a special training website that offers online courses, how-to videos, informational handouts, and step-by-step training.
Get started with Family Tree today by watching the introductory video or reading about it on the training website. Family Tree will be open to everyone and the more you learn about it now, the more ready you will be to take full advantage of this exciting new family history tool when it becomes available.
https://familysearch.org/blog/en/family-tree-service-familysearchorg-coming-2/
The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board has awarded the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association with the 2012 Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia’s History.
Members of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Kathy Rufo, Raymond Rufo, Truman Woo, Travis Tom, and Benny Tam collaborated on a project which collected 26 oral histories recounting the Chinese-American experience in Augusta, Georgia. This was the first oral history initiative by the community organization, and copies of the recordings were donated to the Augusta Public Library for public access and use. The project received funding from the Georgia Humanities Council.
Focusing on the more senior members of the Chinese-American community, interviewees recounted what life was like for Chinese in Augusta in the 1950’s, their experiences in school and civic life, the businesses and social structure of Augusta in which Chinese Americans owned and operated businesses, and reflected on the Augusta riot of 1970 which affected a number of their businesses. A DVD was made of each digital recording along with related pictures. This oral history project is an outstanding example of capturing and preserving Georgia’s History.
Source: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
Just a reminder that the walk around downtown Augusta with Erick will take place this Saturday, November 17th, at 10:30. We will meet on the third floor of the library in the Georgia Room . Come with your walking shoes and a warm jacket. It will last about an hour or so.
The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar this Monday, November 12th at 7pm. The webinar is titled,”From Bunker Hill to Kabul: The Search for Family Stories in the National Archives.” NARA staff member “Nathan Jordan will explain the use of military records in uncovering stories of service and sacrifice.” The webinar is free and easy to use and you can sign up here: http://www.friendsnas.org/webinarSch.htm.
by Aspasia Luster
Saving the Voices of Augusta’s Past, a grant project which we did with ASU and Paine College is live! Twenty five of our citizens’ interviews, mainly conducted during the mid 1970s, are available digitally for your listening pleasure. The site is available here:
