FOLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY

ALABAMA, LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY DEPARTMENT

JEANETTE BORNHOLT

Alabama, Local History and Genealogy Librarian

The Alabama / Local History and Genealogy Department is located on the second floor of the library.

These extensive collections include materials on the state of Alabama, county and city histories and family histories in book, file, and film.

The Special Collection includes:

Owen’s History of Alabama

Dictionary of Alabama Biographies

The Alabama Review

Alabama Historical Quarterly

The Five Hundred Years of Baldwin County [film series]

The Local History Collection includes:

Publications about Baldwin County

Microfilm of local newspapers as early as 1897

Baldwin County History files begun by local historian and author Doris Rich of

Magnolia Springs, Alabama,

The Overton Collection,

Family Histories

Cookbook collection, many no longer in print.

The FOLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY is the depository for the Baldwin County Genealogical Society’s research materials in the Genealogy Collection which covers all states, countries, and ethnic groups  This collection includes:

4500+ genealogy books, quarterlies, periodicals, 

800+ rolls of microfilms of censuses, newspapers, courthouse, congressional, Native

American resources,

3000+ microfiche, also map collection and CDs, for researching throughout the United

States and other countries, 

Microfilm/fiche reader/printer

Internet access with Ancestry.com Library Edition [Also available on all public access

computers in the library] and HeritageQuest   [Available in the library and at

home for those with Foley Public Library Cards.]

The Obituary File begun in 1988 with obits with Baldwin County ties

Various Family Files

Extensive Family History collection

Heritage of Alabama series [All 67 counties] 

Cemetery records for Baldwin County and much, much more.

Visit the Baldwin County Genealogical Society’s website at: www.rootsweb.com/~albcgs/

and

HeritageQuest

Genealogical Research Website

Genealogy News!

Searching for Ancestors Using the Internet

Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 10:00am

On Saturday, January 14th at 10 AM, Jerry Merritt will be the guest speaker to the Baldwin County Genealogical Society in the Foley Public Library Meeting Room, presenting the program "Searching for Ancestors using the Internet". Jerry, a resident of Navarre, Florida,  attended the University of Southern California and then served as an officer in the United States Air Force. After his retirement he became interested in genealogy, and has been involved with family history research for the past 18 years.

His presentation will start with the basics for newcomers to genealogy showing tips and tricks that actually work, then will gradually move on to more complex search methods using little-known databases that can give powerful results.  This would be a good program to bring a friend to who has been expressing an interest in genealogy but isn't quite sure how to get started.  It will also be useful to old-timers who want to find far more detail about their ancestors.

The methodology will use specific databases to demonstrate generalized search concepts applicable to many databases, rather than being a

click-by-click how-to on any particular database.  If one knows what search techniques work best, they can use them on any database once they become acquainted with how different databases operate. The program will include actual cases solved by volunteers at the West Florida Genealogy Library.

These cases will get into using slave schedules, filtered searches, and land records to ferret out ancestors and their family connections and will show how to build on a limited amount of information to solve hard problems.

Attendees will be given an Internet access point prepared for this presentation that leads to many of the best and latest free major genealogy sites as well as other free sites that are less known but none-the-less full of information.

Foley Public Library is at 319 E. Laurel Ave. The Baldwin County Genealogical Society is a nonprofit organization that meets the second

Saturday of each month in the meeting room of the Foley Public Library. The meeting is open to the interested public.