The Society meets at 7:00 pm the first Thursday of every month in the
second floor auditorium of the Augusta Museum of History.
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ABOUT
AGS
The
Augusta Genealogical Society is a nonprofit organization. It was
founded in Augusta, Georgia in September 1979, by 84 charter members
and now has well over 1500 members in 44 states as well as Puerto
Rico, Guam, Singapore, Germany and Ireland. AGS maintains a genealogical
library, publishes a newsletter and journal, presents monthly lectures
and semi-annual "Footprints" methodology seminars, co-sponsors
semi-annual seminars with Augusta State University, and specializes
in cemetery surveys. The Society is the proud recipient of four
Certificates of Commendation from the American Association for
State and Local History. All mail should be directed to P.O.
Box 3743, Augusta GA 30914-3743. We are located at 1109 Broad Street,
Augusta GA. Our phone number is 706-722-4073.
PROGRAM PREVIEWS
by Janice M. Johnson
4 JUNE 2009
"VETERANS HISTORY
PROJECT MAKES EXPERIENCES AVAILABLE TO RESEARCHERS IN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS" by
Fred Gehle
Fred Gehle, Director of the Veterans
History Project in the Augusta area, will speak to AGS at our regular monthly
meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, 4 June, at the Augusta Museum of History,
560 Reynolds Street.
Gehle leads a group of about forty
volunteers sponsored by the Augusta Richmond County Historical Society who
interview and record the stories of the 250 area men and women who have volunteered
as subjects for the project. Interviews are videotaped and three copies are
distributed: one to the subject, one to the archives of Augusta State University,
and one to the Library of Congress. The Augusta interviewers are presently
concentrating on the pool of World War II veterans who are in the 80-90 age
range.
Congress created the Veterans History
Project in 2000 with authorizing legislation receiving unanimous support
in both the House and the Senate and with the signature of President Bill
Clinton. Purposes are to collect, preserve and make accessible the personal
accounts of war veterans as well as U.S. civilians who supported war efforts.
Stories of industrial workers, USO participants, flight instructors, and
medical personnel are among the tens of thousands that are being recorded
so that future generations may hear directly from those who experienced the
realities of war. Subjects may be from World War I, World War II, Korean
War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and the conflicts in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Personal narratives (audio and video
taped interviews and diaries and other written memoirs), correspondence (letters,
v-mail, postcards), and visual materials (scrapbooks, photographs, artistic
renderings) are some of the means by which stories are told and preserved.
The material will be available to students, teachers, researchers and the
general public. Some of the collections are already available in the American
Folklife Center Reading Room of the Library of Congress.
Those who are interested in volunteering
for the Project as a subject or as an interviewer may call Fred Gehle at
706-738-8242.
The
regular monthly programs are free and open to the public. They are held at
7 p.m. at the Augusta Museum of History, 560 Reynolds Street. Entrance to
the museum at night is from a well-lighted parking area entered from either
Sixth or Broad Streets.
GEORGIA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Prepared by Kathy Jarvis
Click
here for bibliography
AGS TRUST FUND
Imagine
That!! Donors Set Up AGS Trust Fund And Give Large Donation For
Virginia Records.
Two magnanimous AGS members brought new meaning to us of the word
generosity when they endowed the Society with our very first ongoing
private trust fund, to ensure the Society's future stability, and
then made available another large fund to be used exclusively for
colonial Virginia records for our Library.
The
donors, who Insist on anonymity, have spent many years assembling
details of the lives and times of their ancestors. Trips to research
centers throughout the South and East enabled them to identify sources
many genealogists only dream of finding. It is their wish that these
types of documents and records be made available locally, hence
the gift restricted to colonial Virginia, the home place
of untold numbers of Southern families.
What a splendid piece of generosity, to their fellow members, and
to their community!
Available for Purchase
WILKES COUNTY,
GEORGIA TAX RECORDS, 1785 – 1805
Volumes One & Two
Compiled & Published by Frank Parker Hudson
AGS is happy
to announce that Frank Parker Hudson’s 2-volume/1520 page
Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records, 1785-1805, is available for
purchase. We raved about the books when we first saw them, and still
consider them one of the finest additions public and academic libraries
with genealogical collections, or genealogists with early Georgia
ties, can make to their libraries.
And do you need the set? Consider this: Your late-18th century Georgia
research is centered in Wilkes County, where nearly half of the
population of Georgia was clustered in 1790. Then you learn that
someone has published 1520 pages of names of all Wilkes Taxables
for 1785-1805, with adjoining landowners and original grantee –
47,000 tax returns from all extant tax records, some never before
microfilmed.
All
genealogical data in the tax records is in the abstracts. Thousands
of free white males 21 years old or older, owning no property, are
also identified. Not only that, the microfilm roll & frame number
of all returns found in the original records provide a splendid
finding aid unavailable for any other set of Georgia records! That’s
far from all! Locations of Militia Districts (using current maps
as backgrounds!), names of successive captains of Militia Districts
1806-1830 as finding aids for future research, lists placing watercourses
in counties, variant spellings of surnames, even a listing of current
counties encompasssed by Wilkes County in 1785 is included.
It took Mr. Hudson more than 30 years to compile all the data; his
presentation is bound to answer questions genealogists from Georgia
to Texas and other points West have been posing for years in their
attempts to sort out names and residences of Georgia ancestors.
This is to say that the books could be helpful in any research.
To
quote from Marguerite Fogleman's review of the books: "to
say that the project of bringing these tax records to publication
for genealogists was 'monumental' might be an understatement"
is an opinion with which we agree wholeheartedly!
Printed
on 1520 pages of acid-free paper, with library quality binding,
the handsome set is sold only as a 2-volume set, due to 104 page
common index.
Now
On Special Sale! Now On Special Sale!
$30.00
at AGS Library; by mail for $30.00 + $5.00 p&h. Check to AGS, P.O. Box 3743, Augusta GA 30914-3743 Phone 706-722-4073 or 706-738-2241
OTHER
ITEMS OF INTEREST
65,000
Individual-Name References in Ancestoring. The Augusta Genealogical
Society began publishing its official journal, Ancestoring,
in 1980. Each issue contains several thousands of individual-name
entries from cemeteries, churches and other rich resource records
in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina.
All 13 Volumes include historical background articles, cemetery
articles, cemetery records from St. Paul's Episcopal Church, First
Presbyterian Church, Magnolia Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, courthouse
records, naturalizations and more. For more information on Ancestoring,
click here.
Do
You Have Suggestions For Improving The AGS Web Site or Need Help
in Constructing Your Own Genealogical Society Web Site? If
so please contact our AGS Web Master, by clicking
here.
Like
To Visit Our Query Page?
If
you would like to view queries posted by past visitors to the AGS
Web site seeking genealogical information relative to their ancestors
who might have once resided in, or passed through, the Augusta,
Georgia region, or, if you would like to post your own query for
such information, you may do so by clicking
here. This will take you to our Query page.
For
links to other genealogical society Web sites click
here.
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