Thought For The Day Genealogywise-Wood CountyA Genealogy Tip By Joan Young
Genealogists have been commenting as long as I’ve been online that activity always drops off dramatically near the end of the year as the holiday season approaches. Each new year brings with it renewed interest in posting on mailing lists and message boards and updating family trees. Families traditionally gather [...]
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Kathy Gunter Sullivan of the Rootsweb North Carolina Lincoln County Mailing List in describing errors she found in listing in an online census database provided a caution we all should think about in our census research.
Unfortunately, the original Lincoln County 1810 census returns were
recopied into an “official” version. So what we have today is a
third-hand [...]
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The listing of Family Histories available in the Genealogy Research Center at the Quitman Public Library has been uploaded. They are found on the Quitman – Family Histories page. Follow the link there from this post or in the pages listing in the left hand column of this Bulletin page.
Thanks to many who have donated [...]
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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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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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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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One of the places you can do free research online is the Library of Congress Chronicling America site at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. The Search Pages option at that location will search all of the papers now available. For a state-specific search, click on the View Newspaper Pages link. You can search by a person’s name or a [...]
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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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For those planning a research trip to the Dallas Public Library Genealogy Section, you should note that the library has new hours.
Monday the library is closed.
Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday & Thursday hours are noon to 6 p.m.
Sunday hours are 1 to 5 p.m.
The Dallas Public Library’s website is [...]
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As requested by several members of the society, a page of general research links has been added to the Bulletin website. Additional suggestions are solicited. When you have one, you can send it in an email to netexas@gmail.com.
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