The microfilm printer-scanner is now ready for use at the genealogy research center at the Quitman Public Library. Microfilm (mainly census and the Wood County Democrat back issues) can be checked out from the library main desk for in-library use. Inter-library loan is possible for microfilm from other sources.
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The regular monthly meeting of the Wood County Genealogical Society will be held next Monday, January 18, at 7 p.m. at the Quitman Public Library. The informal gathering at Peralta’s Restaurant open to all members and guests starts at 5:30 p.m. in Quitman. Program activities for the 7 p.m. meeting are under the direction of [...]
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Member Mary Yandell of Grove, Oklahoma writes that she is still seeking information on the James Greer family and the Hugh Bailey Morrison family, both in Wood County before the Civil War. She can be contacted by postal mail. For her address, go to the WCGS Bulletin member only pages where this query is also [...]
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Among items in the Wood County Genealogical Research Center archives is a letter from a Confederate soldier prisoner of war in 1864. Lt. James G. Blackmon of Company B, 2nd Infantry Battalion of Waul’s Texas Legion, C.S.A. was from Hempstead, Texas. He was captured at Yazoo City, Mississippi in July 1863. He was in three [...]
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A potentially powerful short series on PBS next month explores “What Made America?” through a look at the family trees of a number of Americans. Thanks to Diane Haddad on her Family Tree Magazine blog for bringing this to our attention. The program will be on Wednesdays from Feb. 10 to March 3 at 7.p.m. [...]
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Don Raney, a descendant of Martin Varner of Wood County and author of the recent biography/family history of Martin Varner and descendants, will be speaking to the East Texas Genealogical Society at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 9 at the Tyler Public Library. The public, which includes any of us in the Wood County Genealogical Society, [...]
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Three new pages have been posted with indexes of microfilm and cd-rom disks in the library for research. Access the pages by clicking on the Libraries tab at the top of the home page at the WCGS Bulletin (or see above). They include Wood County Democrat back issues on microfilm, U. S. Federal censuses for [...]
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