Thought For The Day Genealogywise-Wood CountyLook for the Wood County Genealogical Society table at the Autumn Trails Days Business Expo, Saturday, October 3. Our vice-president, Dorothy Harbin, arranged for our presence to publicize the society and offer genealogical information and help to interested expo visitors. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Winnsboro City Auditorium at [...]
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The following description of Wood County comes from the 1910 Texas Almanac found by a search of Google Books. It is among the “full view” books one can find online FOR FREE at that web service. You can search on places, surnames, etc. to see what is available. Some books allow no view, some just [...]
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There is a strictly unofficial place I have set up for anyone interested to talk about Wood County genealogy over at GenealogyWise. It’s open to society members or anyone who wishes to pitch in or read. If you are interested, you can go there if you click here. The address is http://www.genealogywise.com/group/woodcotxgencoffeeklatch.
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Hello! I am trying to locate the burial place of John H. McGahey (McGaha, McGahee) and Rebeca McGahey. His possible date of death is around 1890. I believe he was a Civil War veteran. Also, possibly buried near would be Samuel McGahey and wife Martha “Mattie” Flowers McGahey. I have [...]
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Member Lou Mallory’s latest column, published regularly in the Hawkins-Holly Lake Gazette, features nine Wood County peace officers killed as the pursued their duties. You can read her column series new offerings in the Gazette every two weeks. Her previous columns are in the Gazette at its website: http://hlrgazette.com.
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The Bulletin is officially up and running. Anyone who visited this site in the last 10 days probably found us in some state of tear down and rebuild. We’re not through yet, but we’ve started. Notice: The first post (which is below. Latest posts appear at the top of the page.) is about the September [...]
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Wood County Genealogical Society (WCGS) Members who attended the meeting last spring to hear the Texas Pistalaros and Wood County’s Doc Davis will be interested to hear that the first East Texas Wildwest Fest will be held in Winnsboro during the Autumn Trails celebration on October 17, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at [...]
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The first meeting of the 2009-2010 society year will be September 21 at 7 p.m. at the Quitman Public Library at 202 E. Goode in Quitman. A few members gather before the meeting to visit and eat at 5:30 p.m. at Peralta’s Mexican Restaurant at 607 S. Main in Quitman. Members and guests are invited [...]
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