Archive for August, 2011

August 28, 2011

A Sunday Walk Around the Blogs

by Dawn Watson

Need a vacation? Try the new wave in travel: genealogical tourism. About research conducted by Carla Santos and Grace Yan.

Archaeologists comb newly found Civil War POW camp by Russ Bynum for the Associated Press, about Camp Lawton, located in southeast Georgia.

1890 Georgia tax digests online as census substitute by Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr., for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This nifty article gives brief directions for using a search function to find tax holders, as well as locations for the original records.