Mitchell County Genealogical Society, Inc.

06/01/2025

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 @ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀

Join us on Saturday, June 14 for Genealogy @ The Georgia Archives, a free, daylong event co-hosted with Georgia Genealogical Society. Explore Georgia-specific research strategies, discover records you won’t find online, and take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Archives.

Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/YwYnUDzCzL

For program information, please visit GeorgiaArchives.org!

05/02/2025

Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home Inc. is a 501c3 organization that exists to honor and share the legacy of Beatrice Borders and restore the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home as a museum and educational center.

02/25/2025

Spring is in the air! We are still working on documenting, photographing and cleaning headstones at St. Mary Baptist Church Cemetery near Baconton. This will be our community project for the year so that we can update memorials on Find A Grave to include more local genealogical content.

01/31/2025

01/20/2025

https://albanyherald.com/news/mitchell-county-group-that-spent-a-year-researching-areas-black-history-share-their-findings-for-the-first-time/

Naomi Carroll wanted Black history teachings to extend beyond Black History Month. So, she organized a group to do research on Mitchell County's Black history. Here's what they found.

01/16/2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/12/national-archives-needs-citizen-archivists-cursive/77493951007/?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

12/03/2024

Today is Giving Tuesday, an opportunity to donate to non-profits and charities that you chose to support. Please consider a donation today, click the "DONATE" button at the top of our website: https://mcgsincga.org/

Thank you for your support, we are working together to preserve the history of Mitchell County, Georgia.

06/15/2024

We would like to thank Glenda Brinkley Sanders for her donation of a laptop to the Mitchell County Genealogical Society! We will use it for our meetings and community outreach events.

06/15/2024

Our new sign is up! Join us the 3rd Saturday of each month at 10 am in the Betty Bailey Jones Genealogy Library at the rear of the DeSoto Trail Regional Library in Camilla.

06/05/2024

The society was asked a question last week and we want to to know if anyone of you know the answer.
This sign is located in Pelham Ga in the old train depot where W Railroad St and Hand Ave meet.
Does anyone know what this sign means?

06/01/2024

IGHR's Course 2 - Intermediate Genealogy and Historical Studies course is for a wide variety of students. Maybe you've been researching for decades but need to make sure you're up on the latest techniques and records? Or maybe you've taken a foundational course at IGHR (course 1) or elsewhere and you're ready for the next step? Anyone who wants a firm foundation and to fill in any gaps before moving on will benefit from this intensive virtual course. You can find a detailed course schedule with all the topics at https://ighr.gagensociety.org/course-two/. Check it out!