Thanks to member Lou Mallory who brought us up to date on the site for address for buying “Wood County 1850-1890″. It has been corrected on the Publications Page of this website. FYI: Lou Mallory, P. O. Box 255, Mineola, Texas 75773. Lou’s email is gmallory@suddenlink.net. The book costs $15.00 plus $4.00 postage. Lou is [...]
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First installment Mrs. Ona Wood, a Wood County family history researcher and historian, wrote a history of the county in the 1950’s through the story of some early pioneer families here. She is a descendant of Wood County pioneer Peter Gunstream among others. We are beginning the serial printing of the book in installments for [...]
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1. Responses (2) to “Mae Etta Johnson:” First, Charles L.Bookman, on February 2nd, 2010 said: “Thanks for sharing this important part of history.” Second, Melba Gordon Jones, on February 6th, 2010 said: “I really appreciate you publishing my mothers presentation as part of your newsletter. Thank you so much for sharing our story of our [...]
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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. FREE SEARCH [...]
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Back issues of Ancestry Magazine from 2004 to 2009 are now free to read online. Google Books is providing this and a number of other magazines’ back issues online for free. An example of what you can find (in theMar-Apr 2004 issue on Page 25) is “Your Guide to Rootsweb” by Myra Vanderpool Gormley (also [...]
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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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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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