Scanning and Restoring Family Photographs Using Your Computer

GGS Holiday Event

Scanning and Restoring Family Photographs Using Your Computer  featuring Jim Morganthaler

“How to restore and preserve your family photographs using your computer, a flatbed scanner, and Photoshop software”

5 December 2009

Location: National Archives, Southeast Region, 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, Georgia

Time: 11:00 – 3:00 pm (registration 10:30am-11:00am)

Luncheon will be catered by Executive Chef Catering

Fees: GGS members $25.00 Non-members $35.00 (Registration needs to be postmarked by 25 November 2009 - There is a late registration of $5.00.)

Muscogee County Microfilm @ Columbus Public Library

03 GA MUSC 001 Muscogee County Deeds and Mortgages, 1837-1887
03 GA MUSC 002 Muscogee County, Georgia Marriages, 1838-1929
03 GA MUSC 003 Muscogee County, Georgia Letters of Administration and Guardianship, 1852-1903
03 GA MUSC 004 Muscogee County, Georgia Rosters of Confederate Soldiers and Register of Pensions
03 GA MUSC 005 Muscogee County, Georgia Wills, 1838-1964
03 GA MUSC 006 Muscogee County, Georgia Index to Deeds & Mortgages-Grantor & Grantee, 1838-1905

Newspapers

Southern Sentinel, 1850-1852 03/MF004
Columbus News Record, 1937-1938 03/MF006
Columbus Daily Sun, 1856-1873 03/MF007
Columbus Free Press, 1940-1941 03/MF008
Weekly Sun, 1859-1873 03/MF010
Columbus Sentinel and Herald, 1838-1841 03/MF011
Columbus Times, 1841-1879 03/MF012
The Democrat, 1830-1832 03/MF015
Southern Trade Review, 1891 03/MF019
Columbus Ledger, 1897-1988 03/MF033
Columbus Enquirer 1838-1988
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer 1988 - present

Each link will take you to a finding aid for the collection.

Not exactly genealogical but helpfull on a number of fronts.....News Release from Google:

"As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and jurisdictions. Over time, these legal opinions build, refine and clarify the laws that govern our land. For average citizens, however, it can be difficult to find or even read these landmark opinions. We think that's a problem: Laws that you don't know about, you can't follow — or make effective arguments to change..........[Now] people everywhere can find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in...."

Other topics of interests especially for the readers of this blog may be cemetery preservation or adoption.

The Cricket School Yearbook, 1912

The Cricket 1912 is part of a digital project that the department is currently working on. We would love for you all to take a look and let us know what you think about the way we have chose to provide access to our historical yearbooks.

BTW, The Cricket is part of the Lorena Hall Collection. The collection consists of bound volumes of the "Cricket." The Cricket was the official yearbook publication of Lorena Hall.

Jessie May Snyder founded the Lorena Hall School 1911. Miss Snyder established the school after retiring from teaching at the Columbus Seminary. Lorena Hall was located at the Snyder residence, 1133 Second Avenue, Columbus, Georgia.

On August 6, 1914, a cornerstone was dedicated upon the completion of an addition to the school. For the next fourteen years the school prospered and the student body grew in numbers. However, the school closed its doors upon the retirement of Jessie Snyder.

The property was purchased by the United States Government for the purpose of erecting a post office and courthouse. The post office was completed on the site in 1933.

LOUISiana Digital Library

The LOUISiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of over 84,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Louisiana's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories in the state electronically accessible to Louisiana residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries. The LOUISiana Digital Library contains photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture. We hope that you find the items in the Digital Library as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana.

Daughters of the American Revolution Collection Online

After nearly a decade of scanning, indexing, and other behind-the-scenes work by DAR members and employees, the Daughters of the American Revolution is pleased to announce the availability of the DAR Genealogical Research System on our public website. Here are the direct links:


http://www.dar.org/library/online_research.cfm or www.dar.org (and click on the Library button at the top, then the second tab in the left-hand column).

The GRS is a growing collection of databases that provide access to many materials collected by the DAR over the past 119 years. Included in this collection of databases is the GRC National Index which has been available to researchers for the past few years. There are still some kinks we’re working out here and there.

Available Databases:

Ancestor – established DAR Revolutionary War Ancestors and basic information about them with listings of the applications submitted by descendants who joined the DAR [updated daily]

Member – limited access to information on deceased/former DAR members – not current members.

Descendants – index of generations in applications between the DAR member and the Revolutionary War ancestor. There is much eighteenth and nineteenth-century information here. [ongoing indexing project]

GRC – everyname index to 20,000 typescript volumes (some still being indexed) of genealogical records such as cemeteries, Bibles, etc. This index is not limited to the period of the American Revolution at all.

Resources [In particular, the digitized DAR Library Revolutionary Pension Extract Card Index and the Analytical Index Cards. Other information sources will be coming in the near future, mostly relating to Revolutionary War service, bibliographies, Forgotten Patriots (updates), etc. Read the introductions to these to learn why these are both important genealogical indexes. For example, the Rev. War pension index includes the names of people mentioned in those pensions that were abstracted (not just the pensioner or widow)!!!!]

Library Catalog – our book, periodical, and manuscript holdings

Each of these has interrelated content, and a description of each is given more fully on the website. You will notice restricted information in many search results. This is the result of a concerted effort to protect the identity of our members while providing historical genealogical information to researchers.

The national numbers of members (without the names of living members) given in the search results are needed to order copies of applications and supplemental applications. They do not lead online researchers to any other information about the member.

Chatham County, Georgia's World War II Fallen

The Veterans Council of Chatham County, working with a city of Savannah archivist, has developed this list of those from Chatham County who died during World War II. Their names will be engraved in granite at a World War II memorial on River Street.

An S next to a name indicates spelling verification is needed. A VN indicates additional verification is needed for the name to be included on the monument.

Anyone with copies of military records or birth certificates for the individuals listed below is encouraged to supply a copy for verification purposes to archivist Luciana Spracher. Contact her at lspracher@savannahga.gov or 912-651-6411.

See the list here

Search ObitFinder™ for Free

ObitFinder™ searches obituaries from more than 700 national & international newspapers and the U.S. Social Security Death Index to provide the most accurate and timely obituary information available.

Newspaper obituary information is updated daily. ObitFinder™ searches newspaper obituaries dating as early as February, 2001. However, not all newspapers have obituary information that dates back this far. A list of more than 700 national & international newspapers includes the dates available for each newspaper. Search results display the text of the obituary, photo (if available), and Guest Book (if available).

Social Security Death Index (SSDI) data used on this site dates back to January 1, 2001, and is updated weekly. Search results display date of birth, date of death, zip code, and town and state of last known residence. Please note that keyword search is not available for the SSDI data.

Recently published obituaries can be accessed at no charge, as can Social Security Death Index information.

Obituaries from the archive can be accessed for a fee or you can contact your library to see if the have the microfilm.

View a complete list of newspaper affiliates.