It is rich with information about people and events which have happened in Quitman. I wish that someone would start separate pages like this for all the towns and communities in the county. Thanks to Jane Herring‘s work with this page and to all the others who have shared memories there.

Not Withstanding all of that …..
We live in a digital age in which more and more records including those which are
Original
Copied
Transcribed
Summarized
And are available online for pay or for free.
And we communicate
Less & less by these methods:
Face to face
By pokey old postal mail
By telephone (yes, by telephone)
And
More & more by these methods:
Email and texting
Online discussion and messaging
Skype (oops! That can be face to face, too)
And quicker than in the past!

Genealogy Tips & Resources

Search Engines
www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.mocavo.com

Blogs (electronic journals)
Types:
Personal genealogy research
Ethnic or area research
Genealogy activities
Sources:
www.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en
www.blogfinder.genealogue.com

Wikis (collaborative web pages)
Types:
wikis for surnames or areas
wikis for research resources or tips
Sources:
www.familypedia.wikia.com
www.wikitree.com
www.wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Main_Page
www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Chatham_County,_North_Carolina
www.eogn.com (also known as Encyclopedia of Genealogy)

Digital Books (online or download)
Sources:
www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php
www.books.google.com
www.HeritageQuest Online book search (access through library or library access code
from home)
www.archive.org (also known as the Internet Archive)

Podcasts (Recorded Audio)
Download or listen online at your convenience.
Sources:
www.genealogygemspodcast.com
www.genealogyguys.com
www.familytreemagazine.com/info/podcasts

Talk Radio (Online)
Live but recorded and available for later download
Sources:
www.fgs/fgsradio
www.blogtalkradio.com/geneabloggers

Videos
Sources:
www.youtube.com (search on genealogy)
www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html

Webinars
Live and online participation in a genealogy seminar (or just watching it happen) or later viewing an archived copy)
Sources:
www.geneawebinars.com
www.familytreemagazine.com/interactive/webinars#recorded

Social Media
Sources:
www.facebook.com
www.plusgoogle.com
www.linkpendium.com
www.genealogywise.com
www.twitter.com

Also some Oldies but Goodies!
Genealogy Email Mailing Lists
www.lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
Genealogy Message Boards

http://boards.rootsweb.com/?o_iid=33216&o_lid=33216&o_sch=Web+Property

www.boards.ancestry.com
www.genforum.genealogy.com/

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This means that we can find what is available and reserve books from home. Also, we will have access to the library’s ebooks collection. The new Apollo Biblionix circulation software should be up and running soon. Keep checking the library website.

All of our resources which we have added to the library catalog should also be available for home searching. For those items not yet in the catalog, we need some volunteers to get them entered by computer in the library database. If you have some time and typing skills, we can get you training to enter the items.

This will make many online databases available to researchers locally at no additional charge to each user.

We will probably be discussing fundraisers during the coming year so that we can renew the subscription in 2013 also. This is one of our major community service projects this year and , hopefully, in the future.

Uncle John’s Coffee House is an organization in Quitman which raises money for causes in Wood County with its second Saturday of the month meetings held at 7:00 p.m. in the Joy Hall at the First Methodist Church. Attendees contribute $7.00 a ticket each meeting to raise the funds which are awarded annually.

The $500 donation to the library will be matched by the genealogical society.

Also, you can post to that Facebook page just by sending an email to woocotx@groups.facebook.com. (Note: I left out the d in Wood when I set up the email address) without having to join Facebook. You just can’t read all of those great posts others can leave on our very own Facebook page.

Deason Hunt
Wood County Genealogical Society
Newsletter Editor

Genealogy Favorites and Freebies. Everyone has favorites, and I am no exception, especially when it comes to free genealogy websites. They don’t completely replace subscription sites but are a wonderful starting point for your research.

RootsWeb, of course, is my top pick, not because I am associated with it, but because it is rich with genealogical tools and has an extraordinary network of user-contributed content, mailing lists, and message boards.

There are too many features to cover them all, but my top picks include the Obituary Daily Times and family trees at WorldConnect, along with these additional resources.

Blank Charts and Forms
Index of All Search Engines and Databases
Message Boards
Newsletters —RootsWeb Review and Ancestry Weekly Discovery
RootsWeb MetaSearch —Searches multiple engines
RootsWeb Surname List (RSL)
Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
U.S. Town and County Database

When asked which sites are best outside of RootsWeb, I typically answer, “It depends what you are looking for.” Try to focus on locations, events, or specific topics. A nice site for surname and location links is Linkpendium , developed by Karen Isaacson and Brian (Wolf) Leverich, co-founders of RootsWeb. And these are some military links of interest.

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors
Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System (GRS)
National Archives and Records Administration—Genealogists Archival Research Catalog

A nice selection of vital record transcriptions and images can be found at FamilySearch , the website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

And here are some more free sites, organized by categories.

Books:
WorldCat
Google Books

Cemetery Databases:
Find A Grave (burials, bios and photos)
Interment.net (burial data only)
Political Graveyard (politicians only)
U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Gravesite Locator (includes many spouses)

Immigration & Passenger Lists:
Castle Garden
EllisIsland.org
Olive Tree
1-Step Webpages by Steve Morse (searches other sites)

Land Records:
Bureau of Land Management

Queries and Message Boards:
Cousin Connect
GenForum

Videos:
Who Do You Think You Are? —Learn search techniques followed in tracing the ancestry of celebrities

In addition to these suggestions, look to state archives and local genealogical and historical societies. Many will feature content specific to their area or direct you to related sites.

Finally, there is one more freebie, which may surprise you. Many subscription sites, such as Ancestry.com, offer free databases, which are located by entering the keyword free into the card catalog. Among the freebies you’ll find at Ancestry.com, are a variety of census records, New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957 and the U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791–1992 (indexed by the World Archives Project).

A search of the Internet will uncover additional lists of favorites and freebie genealogy sites, including ProGenealogists list of the 50 Most Popular Genealogy Sites for 2011. Your lists of favorites may differ from these, so feel free to let us know what your favorites are at RootsWeb and around the Web!

Permission to reprint articles from RootsWeb Review is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, provided: the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; andthe following notice appears at the end of the article: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 14 September 2011, Vol. 14, No. 9.