Wood County, TX Genealogy Research Community on FacebookExciting news from Director Delene Allen is that very soon we will be able to search the Quitman Public Library catalog of holdings online from the library website from our home computers connected to the internet. This means that we can find what is available and reserve books from home. Also, we will have access [...]
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The Wood County Texas Genealogical Society’s $500 matching contribution to the Quitman Public Library along with the same amount contributed to the library by Uncle John’s Coffee House of Quitman will result in the library version of Ancestry.com being available to the general public (and society members) at the library in the very near future. [...]
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The subscription services Ancestry.com and Footnote.com are available to use at no charge for in-library use for Longview, Texas Library patrons who have a Longview Public Library borrower’s card. According to the library website, “You may get a borrower’s card at no cost if the following is true: You live in Texas. You are 18 [...]
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Regarding our discussion at the November meeting: the Genealogical Research Center sheet-feed printer-copier is once again churning out good black and white copies. Thanks to member Shirley Bates for getting that taken care of for us.
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Wood County Genealogical Society members and other researchers have access to this equipment in the genealogy research center at the Quitman Public Library to help with their research needs there: a computer with high-speed internet access a printer attached to the computer with a sheet-feed copy option a scanner to copy material from books and [...]
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The rearrangement and reorganization of shelving, equipment, and research materials which was begun in October was finished in November just before Thanksgiving week with the labeling of collection areas on the shelves. The project was completed by WCGS member volunteers, members of the Quitman Public Library staff, and City of Quitman employees who helped with [...]
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Wood County Genealogical Society members who have a membership in the Quitman Public Library can access the Heritage Quest genealogical site (and other TexShare Databases for research) from their home computers at www.texshare.edu/quitmanlibrary/. To sign in however, you’ll need a login ID and password. You can get these from the librarian at the Quitman Public [...]
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Member Mark REID shared the following information in a recent email. This sounds like a good opportunity for members and those who you know who might be ready to get started in genealogy. “A Family History Workshop will begin Thursday 17 June, 10am to 12am at the Mineola Memorial Library. Free as far as I [...]
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A total of 197 users have signed in on the register at the Genealogy Research Center at the Quitman Library during the last 12 months. This is one measure of how much our center is used, but it does not include all those users who do not sign the register. Almost 60 percent of the [...]
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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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