Rosemary Cantrell will present “Timeline Tools” at the February meeting of the Rockdale County Genealogical Society- 3:00 pm
Rockdale County Genealogical Society, LDS Church, 1275 Flat Shoals Rd, Conyers
For more information: Rockdale County Genealogical Society
Friday Feb. 12, 2016- Georgia Archives- Bring your lunch!!
The Friends of Georgia Archives & History present Lunch and Learn featuring Ashley Callahan speaking on Southern Tufts: The Regional Origins and National Craze for Chenille Fashion. Bring a lunch to eat during the program.
Where: Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, Georgia
When: 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Contact: For more information, call 678.364.3730
Indigo: A Saturated History
Indigo’s history is laced with mystery and superstition, and its use has been dated back nearly 4,000 years. Join us for a special program about the fraught story of indigo and its indelible impact on the coastal South, featuring Donna Hardy, founder of Sea Island Indigo, and Andrea Feeser, author of Red, White and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of South Carolina Life. At the end of the program, join us for a special demonstration of the indigo dyeing process.
Multipurpose Room A, Athens-Clarke County Library, 2025 Baxter Street. Athens, Georgia
Find My Past Announces U.S. Marriage Collection 1650-2010. Explore this new collection with Free Access until Feb 15th
Today at Rootstech 2016, Findmypast.com announced the new online database with more than 450 million names- the majority of these records have never been digitized and made available online until today.
To read more about this collection and to explore click HERE
Emory University. Woodruff Library- Level 10, Feb 8th -6:30 pm
“Reading the Silences: Finding African Americans in the Archives”
Emory University’s Archives Research Program will host a panel discussion on Monday, February 8 at 6:30 on level 10 of the Woodruff Library.
The panel will explore research into the lives African Americans. Researching an under- documented community can be frustrating; evidence is often found in unexpected places, and the researcher must learn to “read” documents and employ unique research strategies that can provide evidence into the lives of African Americans.Emory University’s Archives Research Program will host a panel discussion on Monday, February 8 at 6:30 on Level 10 of the Woodruff Library.
The panelists are:
The Archives Research Program is a collaborative program of the Laney Graduate School, the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library. To learn more about the program – click HERE
…thousands of students, local dignitaries, costumed characters, musicians, and a military color guard
Georgia History Festival’s Georgia Day Parade
As part of the annual commemoration of the founding of the Georgia colony of February 12, 1733 by James Edward Oglethorpe, a tradition dating back to the earliest years of the colony’s founding, join us as students, musicians, local dignitaries, and costumed historical figures march through Savannah’s historic squares during this beloved annual event. Free and open to the public.
Where: Forsyth Park, Drayton Street and East Park Avenue, Savannah, Georgia
When: 10:30 a.m.
HILARY BUTSCHEK for Online Athens
……Another guest on campus for the month-long series of events is photographer Billy Weeks. Weeks, who won the Gordon Parks International Photography award twice, will talk about his idol Parks.
Photos taken by Parks are on display in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library Gallery. The exhibit focuses on his photo essay for Life magazine in 1956 that illustrates segregation in the South. Weeks speaks at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 16 in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Also at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, to begin the month of events, the film “Hate: A Journey to the Dark Heart of Racism” will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Following the film, there will be a panel discussion about the film’s theme of hatred toward ethnic groups…
See full article for complete information on this and other planned events :
UGA takes lead on celebrations of Black History Month in Athens
January 29th
Ancestry.com announces the recent update or release of new records for states including Illinois, Texas, Tennessee, Oregon, Montana and North Carolina.
The entire U.S. Wills and Probate collection can be searched here
Fold3.com and American Ancestors are opening their African American databases for free access during the month of February 2016. At Fold3.com some of the databases include other than African American records. For example, the Southern Claims Commission Records and the WWI “Old Man’s Draft” Registration records are complete collections.
FOLD3.com
Fold3.com free databases include records documenting slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the World Wars and the Civil Rights Movement.
For example:
Click here for the Fold3.com Black History Collection home page to see samples of the records and links leading to more information about each collection. You will need to obtain a free registration to search the databases.
AMERICAN ANCESTORS
As part of their Black History Month promotion, guest users of AmericanAncestors.org will have free access to the following databases:
To help your research efforts, American Ancestors has created a guide to two of these databases, both focused on African American families in Massachusetts: Hampden County, MA: Black Families in Hampden County, 1650-1865 and People of Color in the Massachusetts State Census, 1855-1865.
These resources provide users with the ability to trace families throughout this period of history. American Ancestors will walk you through a case study of using both of these databases, and we’ll talk about other database collections available to research African American families. Search Spotlight: African American Records
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