Wood County, TX Genealogy Research Community on Facebook(From Rootsweb Review) Copyrights may be the single most misunderstood topic on the planet, and unfortunately, genealogists are prone to asserting copyrights improperly. Many assume copyrights are all about writing. They are applied to writing, but are more specifically about rights – e.g., the right of an author establishes copying guidelines for intellectual property. We [...]
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Stay tuned. We are likely to hear more about the agreement just reached by Google Books which will allow it to scan and put out-of-print books (but not yet of the age to enter the public domain) online for viewing or downloading for pay. Not all of the details were available over at the Google [...]
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A genealogy news feed is now located in the right hand column under tags. This will automatically change, so you can keep going back for updates
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The Wood County Genealogical Society vertical files are housed in file cabinets in the genealogy room at the Quitman Public Library. Surname folders may include many kinds of information including ancestor charts, family sheets, and correspondence to and from the society concerning the particular surname. Surnames A-B Adams, Aaron, Ables, Acker, Adrian, Agens, Alexander, Allen, [...]
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October is traditionally Family History Month. Kimberly Powell at About.com has ten suggestions on how individuals can celebrate this month.You can see the suggestions at this clickable link: http://genealogy.about.com/od/holidays/tp/family-history-month.htm.
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Two tips from members of GenealogyWise: 1) Hold down the control key and hit the + key (plus key.) to make type larger. To make smaller again, do the same but use the – key (minus key). The shift key is not needed to do this. 2) Hold down the control key and use the [...]
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Betty Vaughn has posted information on the Thomas Jefferson Shaw family of Alabama and Wood County, Texas and Shaw’s Civil War service and a Shaw family photo at the Wood County Genealogy Coffee Klatch at GenealogyWise, the Genealogy Social Network. This is a clickable link to that page: http://www.genealogywise.com/group/woodcotxgencoffeeklatch.
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Re: Isaac (Ike) Taylor from a query of Roby Ottwell, first published in the July 2009 newsletter. “Isaac (Ike) Taylor, Mr. Ottwell’s grandfather, …was killed in 1922 when a hired man killed Taylor and stole his money.” Society researcher and previous newsletter editor Shirley Bates went back to the Winnsboro News office (following the July [...]
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Mark Reid, Publications Fulfillment and Computer Database chairman and co-chairman and newsletter executive editor, has made an offer to members: a computer file copy of his almost 19,000 person Wood County database. The price is “FREE.” Details are in a comment over at the Wood County Coffee Klatch at Genealogywise. http://www.genealogywise.com/group/woodcotxgencoffeeklatch (a clickable link). If [...]
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The following query was posted by Nancy Carter on the Wood County Genealogy Coffee Klatch on Genealogywise: I have a mystery concerning Sally Womack that married Louis Young about 1870. They resided in Wood County until Sally died about 1900. Who were Josh and Nora Womack? If you have a response, you can go to [...]
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