Southern Echoes – AGS Newsletter
For our 39 years as a Society, Southern Echoes has kept us informed with what's going on in our organization, in the genealogical community, and among our members. It includes book reviews; queries; Surname Area Search Files for making contacts with other family searchers; recaps of our lectures series of genealogical/historical presentations by noted speakers; local, regional, and national genealogy news and announcements; gift lists of books, etc. to our library; a summary of Council Meeting Minutes to keep everyone informed of where we’ve been and where we’re going. The complete collection of Southern Echoes is available for use at the Adamson Library and many issues are available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site.
Ancestoring – The Society’s Numbered Journal
Ancestoring is the Society’s numbered journal. Approximately 65,000 individual name entries from old records have appeared in 13 volumes (Ancestoring I – XIII) through 1990 along with historical background articles, cemetery articles,
cemetery inscriptions from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Magnolia Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, courthouse records, naturalizations and more. The following all names indexes to these journals are available to help you search for your ancestor: Volume 1-10, Volume 11, Volume 12, and Volume 13
The complete collection of Ancestoring is available for use at the Adamson Library. Call to schedule an appointment.
All issues are also available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site. Click here to join!
To to order a copy of Ancestoring, just send us an email or you can purchase Ancestoring through through Amazon.
Copies of an individual page can be provided upon request. The cost is $1.00 for members/$5.00 for non-members per page handling fee plus shipping cost. Please email us to place an order.
For our 39 years as a Society, Southern Echoes has kept us informed with what's going on in our organization, in the genealogical community, and among our members. It includes book reviews; queries; Surname Area Search Files for making contacts with other family searchers; recaps of our lectures series of genealogical/historical presentations by noted speakers; local, regional, and national genealogy news and announcements; gift lists of books, etc. to our library; a summary of Council Meeting Minutes to keep everyone informed of where we’ve been and where we’re going. The complete collection of Southern Echoes is available for use at the Adamson Library and many issues are available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site.
Ancestoring – The Society’s Numbered Journal
Ancestoring is the Society’s numbered journal. Approximately 65,000 individual name entries from old records have appeared in 13 volumes (Ancestoring I – XIII) through 1990 along with historical background articles, cemetery articles,
cemetery inscriptions from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Magnolia Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, courthouse records, naturalizations and more. The following all names indexes to these journals are available to help you search for your ancestor: Volume 1-10, Volume 11, Volume 12, and Volume 13
The complete collection of Ancestoring is available for use at the Adamson Library. Call to schedule an appointment.
All issues are also available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site. Click here to join!
To to order a copy of Ancestoring, just send us an email or you can purchase Ancestoring through through Amazon.
Copies of an individual page can be provided upon request. The cost is $1.00 for members/$5.00 for non-members per page handling fee plus shipping cost. Please email us to place an order.
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Newspapers
AGS publishes a genealogical column in the Augusta Chronicle periodically. Click here to see a listing of articles through October 2018. Look for future genealogical articles in the Augusta Chronicle on the third Thursday of each month. Past articles are available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site. Click here to join!
Books
Ancestoring Monograph Series (AMS)
AGS has published some wonderful books in its Ancestoring Monograph Series (AMS): • Quaker Records in Georgia , Wrightsborough 1772-1793, Friendsborough 1776-1777 ◦ Containing minutes of the Quaker congregation which settled in (now) McDuffie County, near Augusta, in the late 1700′s. Included are intriguing day today accounts of the troubled Revolutionary War times (which Quakers referred to as “the commotion”) and births, marriages and deaths
Many of these books can also be purchased directly from AGS. Just email us to request a book. In addition, AGS has many new and used books for sale through Amazon. Click here to see a complete listing of the books available through Amazon.
AGS publishes a genealogical column in the Augusta Chronicle periodically. Click here to see a listing of articles through October 2018. Look for future genealogical articles in the Augusta Chronicle on the third Thursday of each month. Past articles are available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site. Click here to join!
Books
Ancestoring Monograph Series (AMS)
AGS has published some wonderful books in its Ancestoring Monograph Series (AMS): • Quaker Records in Georgia , Wrightsborough 1772-1793, Friendsborough 1776-1777 ◦ Containing minutes of the Quaker congregation which settled in (now) McDuffie County, near Augusta, in the late 1700′s. Included are intriguing day today accounts of the troubled Revolutionary War times (which Quakers referred to as “the commotion”) and births, marriages and deaths
- 1860 Census of Edgefield County, SC
- 1860 Census of Abbeville County, SC
- Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, GA
- Index to City Directories of Augusta, Georgia 1841-1879 - Compiled in 1991 by Ray Rowland, lists all entries found in extant directories published for: 1841, 1859, 1861, 1865-66, 1867, 1872, 1874-75 and 1879
- Irish Nativities in Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, GA
- Ancestoring IX Index
- When Your Ox is in The Ditch: Genealogical How-to Letters
- And more...
Many of these books can also be purchased directly from AGS. Just email us to request a book. In addition, AGS has many new and used books for sale through Amazon. Click here to see a complete listing of the books available through Amazon.