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Atlanta Genealogy Larry W.

Thomas of AtlantaGenealogy.com is a professional genealogist and nationally recognized speaker, providing research and educational programs for genealogical societies and private clients nationwide.

Genealogy Classes AvailableI offer genealogy classes for groups, libraries, and community organizations—whether you're j...
03/28/2026

Genealogy Classes Available

I offer genealogy classes for groups, libraries, and community organizations—whether you're just getting started or looking to take your research further.

Topics range from a 1-hour introduction to half-day workshops and full-day seminars, all focused on real records, real methods, and practical results.

If your group is interested in hosting a class, feel free to reach out.

What’s the oldest record you’ve ever found for your family?One of my favorites is a letter written by my 2nd great grand...
03/28/2026

What’s the oldest record you’ve ever found for your family?

One of my favorites is a letter written by my 2nd great grandfather, Banner Thomas, in 1883—just two years before his death in 1885.

Seeing his handwriting—and knowing it was written so close to the end of his life—brings a level of connection that no online tree ever can.

Records don’t just document names… they preserve voices.

What’s the oldest record YOU’ve found?

On This Day – 27 March 1794The United States Navy was established, creating records that would document the service and ...
03/27/2026

On This Day – 27 March 1794

The United States Navy was established, creating records that would document the service and lives of thousands of men.

For genealogists, military records are often some of the most valuable sources available—providing names, service details, locations, and sometimes even physical descriptions.

But like all records, they must be interpreted carefully.

Not every record tells the full story, and not every name belongs to the person you think it does.

What military record has helped you the most in your research?

What record has helped you the most in your research?For me, it’s often tax records—especially in probate and heirship w...
03/26/2026

What record has helped you the most in your research?

For me, it’s often tax records—especially in probate and heirship work where they help place individuals in a specific place and time.

Curious what others rely on most.

Most people trust online family trees.I don’t.In probate and heirship work, I routinely see:Wrong parentsMerged individu...
03/25/2026

Most people trust online family trees.
I don’t.

In probate and heirship work, I routinely see:

Wrong parents
Merged individuals
Entire lines built on assumptions

The problem isn’t that trees exist—it’s that they’re treated as evidence.

They’re not.

They’re clues at best.

What’s one mistake you’ve seen in an online tree?

On This Day – 24 March 1944Seventy-six Allied prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III in what became known as the Great E...
03/24/2026

On This Day – 24 March 1944

Seventy-six Allied prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III in what became known as the Great Escape.

Most people remember the story.

I look at the records it created.

POW camp records, escape reports, and post-war investigations documented names, movements, and outcomes—often in remarkable detail.

Today, those same records can identify individuals, confirm service, and reconstruct events decades later.

In genealogy—and especially in heirship and military research—the question is never just what happened, but:

What records did it create—and where are they now?

That’s where the real work begins.

On 23 March 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech urging resistance to British rule.“The Revolution didn’t sta...
03/23/2026

On 23 March 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech urging resistance to British rule.

“The Revolution didn’t start on the battlefield…
it started with words.”

For genealogists, those words led to action—
and action created records.

That’s where the stories begin.



Before civil registration, churches recorded the milestones of life—baptisms, marriages, and burials.For many early Amer...
03/22/2026

Before civil registration, churches recorded the milestones of life—baptisms, marriages, and burials.

For many early American families, these records are the only surviving documentation of their existence.

If you’re researching before the mid-1800s,
the story often begins in the church.



On 21 March 1778, Martha Washington arrived at Valley Forge.She wasn’t a soldier, but her presence—and the presence of m...
03/21/2026

On 21 March 1778, Martha Washington arrived at Valley Forge.

She wasn’t a soldier, but her presence—and the presence of many women like her—helped sustain the army through one of its most difficult periods.

For genealogists, women are often harder to trace, not because they weren’t there…
but because the records don’t always reflect their full story.

That’s why we have to look differently.
That’s where the evidence is.

👉 This is exactly what I explore in my presentation:
“Finding the Ladies: Tracing Women Through the Records They Left Behind”



The Revolutionary War in Georgia wasn’t fought in one place—it was fought across the backcountry, small towns, and front...
03/20/2026

The Revolutionary War in Georgia wasn’t fought in one place—it was fought across the backcountry, small towns, and frontier settlements.

From Savannah to Augusta and beyond, the Southern Campaign touched countless communities.

For genealogists, that means your ancestor’s story may not be tied to a single battlefield…
but scattered across many records.



The Revolution didn’t start with war—it started with a tax.And for genealogists, taxes left records.
03/19/2026

The Revolution didn’t start with war—
it started with a tax.

And for genealogists, taxes left records.







Crispus Attucks is often remembered as the first casualty of the American Revolution.But he was more than a moment in hi...
03/18/2026

Crispus Attucks is often remembered as the first casualty of the American Revolution.

But he was more than a moment in history—
he was a person, part of a family, with a story that began long before 5 March 1770.

That is the difference between history and genealogy.


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