Thought For The Day Genealogywise-Wood CountyA new Members Only page link has been added to the right column of the Bulletin web page.
You will receive the password which will be requested when you click on the log-in link within 24 hours of this posting at your current on-file email address. If your computer allows cookies, you should not have [...]
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Kimberly Powell of About.com: Genealogy issued a challenge to her readers ito use this time of year to consider volunteering to the larger genealogy community in a number of different ways which you can read about on her blog at http://genealogy.about.com/b/2009/12/15/giving-back-to-the-genealogy-community.htm.
The holidays are always a very busy time of year, but in the spirit [...]
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. — Arthur Hertzberg
Hertzberg captures in one sentence why we research, compile, and publish our family trees and history.
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Christmas came early to the Wood County Genealogical Society Research Center at the Quitman Public Library with the placement of a microfiche/microfilm reader with printer.
This gift to the Wood County Genealogical Society Research Center at the Quitman Public Library (QPL) was secured by QPL Director Delene DelaRosa of a Konica Minolta MS6000 MKII reader/printer [...]
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Here’s hoping that you had a very Merry Christmas and that you are nearing the end of a year of happiness and fulfillment. As we prepare for a new year and a new decade, it’s an opportunity to put less happy times behind us and prepare for the happiness we all so richly deserve in [...]
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Some years of the Wood County Democrat of Quitman (1950 to 1987 plus 1993 and 2005) are searchable online. The most complete decade is 1951-60. Only a few years/issues of the other decades are made available. Some searches require you to be a paid subscriber of a web service, and some are free.
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