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Goal 9: Learn about Georgia newspapers.
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ALearn about Georgia newspapers.
Summary
- Discover the history of Georgia newspapers.
- Learn more about how to use Georgia periodical and manuscripts.
- Learn about Georgia newspapers in these articles.
FS—Wiki: Georgia Newspapers
AC—Wiki: Georgia Periodicals, Newspapers, and Manuscripts - Learn about researching historical Georgia newspapers in this tutorial from The Ancestor Hunt.
Research Free Historical Georgia Newspapers—9:42
BExplore Georgia newspapers.
Summary
- Find research clues in the Library of Congress historical newspaper collection.
- Search Georgia online newspaper sites.
- Search for
Georgia historical newspapers in the Library of Congress collection. - Find links to Georgia newspapers on the Wikipedia site.
- Explore Georgia newspaper resources on the Ancestor Hunt site.
- Explore the Georgia Historic Newspapers site, part of the Digital Public Library of America.
- Explore historical newspapers on the Old Newspaper Research site.
- See additional Georgia newspaper resources on the Linkpendium site.
- Explore additional links for Georgia newspapers and obituaries on the LDSGenealogy site.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for newspaper records. Then use the learnings for searches for a U.S. ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
Miss Julia Righton was reportedly married in June of 1915 in Savanah, GA. Newspaper announcements often covered large geographic regions. Though Julia was married in Savannah it's possible that an Atlanta, GA newspaper could carry an announcement for her wedding. Use the "AC: Atlanta Constitution" QUIKLink below to find a newspaper announcement for her marriage that answers these questions:
- What was her full maiden name?
- What was her husband's name?
- What was her father's name?
- Where were they married?
- What was the exact date of the wedding?
- In the name search fields, type "Julia Righton" along with "Savannah, Chatham, Georgia" for the event location, and "1915" for the publication date.
- Look for the announcement under the heading "Savannah Social News."
- Julia's full maiden name was Julia Albright Righton.
- Her husband was Joseph R. Weeks.
- Her father was H.Y. Righton.
- Julia and Joseph were married in the Wesley Monumental Church.
- Finding the exact date takes a bit more work. The announcement is dated 26 June 1915 but says the wedding took place on "Tuesday." Do a Google search to find out what day of the week June 26 was in 1915. It was a Saturday, so the wedding must have taken place on 22 June 1915.
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Georgia Counties
Name = FamilySearch; A = Ancestry; L = Linkpendium; G = Genealogy Inc; U = USGenWeb; T=GenealogyTrails; F = Facebook
Click here for a printable map of counties.