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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
Holdings include the best set of family folders in Georgia.<ref | Holdings include the best set of family folders in Georgia.<ref>William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 33. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> They also have genealogical how-to manuals, genealogical periodicals and newsletters and indexes, Civil War records, DAR and Revolutionary War records, pension and bounty land records, immigration indexes, African Americans, American Indians, censuses and indexes, church records and histories, heraldry, pioneer families, many local-county-state histories for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and selected records from most other states, school yearbooks, family histories, and maps.<ref>''CCGS Inventory'' an MS Excel database with link on [http://www.ccgsinc.org/researchlibrary/digital-records/ Records - Digital and Print] in ''Coweta County Genealogical Society'' (accessed 12 January 2016).</ref> | ||
=== Alternate Repositories === | === Alternate Repositories === | ||
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*[[Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library]], Homerville, their genealogical collection covers the Southeast United States well,<ref name="DB33" /> including 14,000 files on families from south Georgia and north Florida.<ref>[https://www.huxford.com/History.html Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library History] in ''Huxford Genealogical Society, Inc.'' (accessed 15 January 2016).</ref> | *[[Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library]], Homerville, their genealogical collection covers the Southeast United States well,<ref name="DB33" /> including 14,000 files on families from south Georgia and north Florida.<ref>[https://www.huxford.com/History.html Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library History] in ''Huxford Genealogical Society, Inc.'' (accessed 15 January 2016).</ref> | ||
*[[Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library]] good collection of southern states family history material such as immigration records, marriages and deaths, Internet access, censuses, and state and county histories.<ref name="RW">[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lostalbro/res.htm Library Resources] in ''The Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library'' (accessed 8 January 2016).</ref> | *[[Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library]] good collection of southern states family history material such as immigration records, marriages and deaths, Internet access, censuses, and state and county histories.<ref name="RW">[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lostalbro/res.htm Library Resources] in ''The Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library'' (accessed 8 January 2016).</ref> | ||
*[[Washington Memorial Library]], Macon, one of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.<ref | *[[Washington Memorial Library]], Macon, one of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.<ref>William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 33. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> Emphasis on the 13 colonies, American Revolution, and Great Britain.<ref name="GA">[http://www.bibblib.org/genealogy-archives/ The Genealogical and Historical Room] in ''Middle Georgia Regional Library'' (accessed 17 January 2016).</ref> | ||
'''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | '''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | ||
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*[http://newnancowetahistoricalsociety.com/ Newnan-Coweta Historical Society] | *[http://newnancowetahistoricalsociety.com/ Newnan-Coweta Historical Society] | ||
*[http://cowt.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/?rm=ABOUT+CPLS0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7Ctrue&dt=list Coweta Public Library System] | *[http://cowt.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/?rm=ABOUT+CPLS0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7Ctrue&dt=list Coweta Public Library System] | ||
*[[Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library]], large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA.<ref | *[[Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library]], large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA.<ref>William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 33. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> They have county histories, family histories, will indexes, deeds, military rosters, passenger lists, Atlanta city directories, Georgia censuses 1820-1930, local histories, and newspapers.<ref>[http://www.afpls.org/central-hq/66-special-collections Special Collections] in ''Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System'' (accessed 8 January 2016).</ref> | ||
*[[Atlanta History Center]], Kenan Research Center, extensive Georgia family and county histories, Sons of the American Revolution library, holdings for North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama genealogy. | *[[Atlanta History Center]], Kenan Research Center, extensive Georgia family and county histories, Sons of the American Revolution library, holdings for North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama genealogy. | ||
*[http://aahgs.org/ Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society], Atlanta, members, meetings, newsletter, surname queries, links. | *[http://aahgs.org/ Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society], Atlanta, members, meetings, newsletter, surname queries, links. | ||