NorthEast Alabama Genealogical Society (NEAGS) members are working on several cemeteries in Etowah County. If anyone knows of unmarked graves in these or any information on these cemeteries, contact RoseMary Hyatt, 256-538-1122, or Anne Batie, 256-492-2739, or email neagslib@comcast.net.
Several cemetery books are for sale and are listed in the rest of this article. Click on the “Read More”.
The surveys have been reviewed, your emails read, your comments made in person passed on — and the results are… The Annual NEAGS 2013 Swap Meet was a GREAT success. Thank you to everyone who made it so, especially Rosemary Hyatt who organized the event. Also to each presenter during the week & of course… Read More »
The swap meet provides LEARNING opportunites. This year’s speaker is outstanding. J. Mark Lowe is special to all of us at NEAGS. We value his knowledge, his humor, his teaching. Learn via other events [free] earlier in the week too! People who love to do genealogy also LOVE to share genealogy. The swap meet is… Read More »
I’m not sure but I think those of us “into genealogy” always have resolutions every New Years. Mine always seem to be around the same theme — getting better control of my “genealogy mess”. This picture hardly gives a real respresentation of what I face. Those are big piles but they are *neat* piles. 🙂
Hard copies from many many different resources. Pictures galore. Scans to be done. Scans done to be labeled. Computer files with names that are not consistent.
Anyone else say — THIS YEAR I RESOLVE TO FIX THIS!
Stay tuned. Help is coming!
Is there a relative who never had any children of their own, had no siblings and died owning enough property to require a probate or an estate settlement?
If so, the records of that settlement may be particularly interesting. The deceased person’s heirs-at-law typically would have been their first cousins or their first cousin’s descendants. Even if there was a will, these heirs-at-law typically would have had to have been notified of the probate. Those records could help determine relationships and indicate where people were living at the time the relative died.
These estate or probate records would typically be filed at the local court level.
© Michael John Neill, “Genealogy Tip of the Day,” http://genealogytipoftheday.blogspot.com, 6 Sep 2012.