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FEBRUARY 12 IS GEORGIA DAY
Each year in Georgia February 12 is designated Georgia Day. It was on that day in 1733 that General James Oglethorpe arrived in Savannah
on the Anne with the first 116 settlers on board. The Anne, a ship of 200 tons, John Thomas, Master set sail from Gravesend, England on the 17th of November 1732 and arrived on the bar off Charleston on
Saturday night the 13th of January 1733. James Oglethorpe, Esquire came ashore in Charleston and was well received by Robert Johnson the Royal Governor of South Carolina. Johnson and his Council furnished at
public expense one hundred and four breeding cattle, twenty five hogs, twenty barrels of rice and gave the aid and protection of fifteen Rangers with horses to guard the colonists while they laid out and began building the new town
of Savannah. Carolinians in Purrysburgh, Edisto and other towns on South Carolina offered additional livestock and food to the settlers. While his colonists rested in a newly made encampment near Port Royal,
Oglethorpe went up the Savannah to choose a location for the future town they would build. While there he met with Tomo Chachi, the Mico, or Chief of the Yamacraw tribe that lived in the area and made a treaty. The new town of
Savannah was laid out with temporary housing and was ready for the settlers when they arrived on February 12th.
GEORGIA STATE ARCHIVES
One of the best places to conduct Georgia research is the Georgia Department of Archives and History located at 330 Capitol Avenue SE, Atlanta,
GA 30334. The Archives is the official repository of the state for all state records no longer necessary for daily use by governmental agencies. In addition the Archives owns microfilm copies of most of the county records for every
county in the state. The Archives has a very helpful web presence, one worthy of a visit by anyone interested in Georgia research. The website is located on the Internet at
FAMILY TREE MAKER SOFTWARE CLASS
Paula Perkins Parke will teach two separate
one-time Organizing Your Family Research With Family Tree Maker Software
classes in February. The first will be from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M. Wednesday February 21 at the Houston Community College's campus at 1681 Cartwright in Missouri City. For more information on this class and to register, contact HCC at 281-835-5539.
The second class will be held from 6:30 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. at the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive. For more information and to register contact Kay Bradley at MDPC by calling
713-782-1710.
CEMETERY AND TOMBSTONE STUDIES
Learn about
cemeteries, tombstone artwork and epitaphs in a two session class taught by Paula Perkins Parke. Cemetery Searching & Answers from the Tombstone
is a two part class offered by Leisure Learning. The first session will be held from 7 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. February 22 at Leisure Learning's 2990 Richmond Avenue campus. The concluding session will be held in a local cemetery the following Sunday afternoon.
For more information about this class and to register, contact Leisure learning at 713-529-4414
SANDRA CLUNIES IN SAN MARCOS
The San Marcos-Hays County Genealogical Society will host their Annual Workshop from 8:30 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturday March 3. The featured
speaker will be nationally known, Sandra MacLean Clunies. Her topics will include: Research in Washington, DC Without Leaving Home; Evaluating Web Resources; Federal Census Research for Experienced Researchers; and New England
Research for the 21st Century. For more information and to register, contact the society at P.O. box 503, San Marcos, TX 78667-0503 or call Ella Smith at 512-754-8777.
NEWS FROM THE BOOKSHELF
The Genealogical Publishing Company has issued a CD-ROM containing the
digital images of six books previously published by them. Early Georgia Settlers is available for $33.49, postpaid, from the publisher at 1001 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-3897. Among the
important record sources on the CD-ROM are the indexes of the earliest surviving censuses for the State of Georgia-those of 1790, 1820 and 1830. The 1790 index census was reconstructed from tax lists, voter lists, jury lists and
other surviving public records. Included on the CD-ROM is a comprehensive list of the first settlers of Georgia who were sent by the Trustees of the Colony from England, the names of Salzburgers from Austria,
Palatines from the southern Rhineland, Swabians from Ulm and the Swiss who settled in Georgia after 1733 and prior to the American Revolution. The titles of the six books included on the CD-ROM are
Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia, Index to the United States Census of Georgia for 1820, Index to the 1830 Census of Georgia, A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia, The Germans of Colonial Georgia
1733-1783 and Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia.
