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.
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 complete collection of Ancestoring is available for use at the Adamson Library. Ancestoring can also be purchased through our Amazon Bookstore. Click here!
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
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.
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.
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 complete collection of Ancestoring is available for use at the Adamson Library. Ancestoring can also be purchased through our Amazon Bookstore. Click here!
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
- 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
- Ancestoring IX Index
- When Your Ox is in The Ditch: Genealogical How-to Letters
- And more...
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.
