Franklin County Genealogy Research Group

10/16/2025

New Item alert!

Survey Public School Plants State Department of Education In Cooperation With State Planning Board.

This survey lists schools that are not listed in our other school books, it also lists the amount of individual students the schools had and lists the price of the property the school was on. This is all information that could be beneficial to someone researching schools or property there of.

10/16/2025

I’m sure a lot of you are missing Rex Stephenson, this is a gentle reminder that we have his theatrical art works available for check out directly from our Mann Room collection , please stop by and browse our multi-media collection and look for this red box, it is filled to the brim. Don’t forget to take your movie(s) to one of the circulation desks for check out!

10/12/2025

If you missed the last sale, ancestry is offering these kits for $39 again.

10/08/2025

Mark your calendar!

Author Barbara VornDick will be here
Saturday, October 18th from 10am until 12pm to speak about her book - Eliza’s Story.

No need to register, this program is FREE and open to the public.

Franklin County Public Library
355 Franklin Street
Rocky Mount, VA 24151

📖 Book details

“For almost two hundred years, the historical narrative about Eliza Monroe stated that after her father died, she threw a tantrum, abandoned her family and country, and stormed off to Europe to live out the rest of her life in Paris.

All the major Monroe biographers said so.

But was it true?

For author Barbara VornDick, this narrow, oft-repeated tale did not make sense. Five years of digging through letters, court documents, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic uncovered documents buried for two centuries that revealed a tantalizing story: medical conditions carefully hidden from public view; a president who dared to offend foreign dignitaries to protect his beloved wife; and a dutiful daughter reduced to poverty by betrayal.

Extraordinarily well-researched and packed with primary sources, this true story of Eliza rewrites history, and reflects the tragic situation of women in the 1800s who were often at the mercy of the men in charge of their rights to property and survival.

Eliza's true story is one you will not soon forget.”

10/08/2025

There are cool events happening around us- put this in your calendar.

Celebrate American masterpieces that shaped our nation’s artistic identity. Enjoy live music, drinks, open galleries, and more. Get your tickets today!

10/07/2025

Our friends at the Bedford Museum are offering genealogy classes, check these out!

10/04/2025

Just a reminder that there are good books pertaining to history through out the library, this particular book can be found in the juvenile nonfiction section.

10/01/2025

A monument in Rocky Mount will soon honor 70 Franklin County men who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.

10/01/2025

10/01/2025

Local author and genealogy member Becky Mushko’s book “Stuck” is now a free download (one week only) on Amazon.

Free Kindle e-book from Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. until Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025—Stuck by Becky Mushko: Eleven-year-old Jacie Addison is stuck in grief over her mother’s death, stuck at horse camp with her worst enemy, stuck with anger that her father is going to remarry, stuck with a stepmother she doesn’t want, and then stuck on a Union Hall, Virginia farm where she encounters a ghost who is stuck on earth. Stuck https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Becky-Mushko-ebook/dp/B00CKEM4TE
[To connect this book with Franklin County genealogy: the cover photo was taken in the Carter Cemetery on Listening Hill Road in Penhook, where John Carter is buried. According to local historian—the late Dorothy Cundiff, John died of influenza on 5 January 1919, and was cursing when he died. From time to time, a small fireball falls from the top of his tombstone (to the right in the picture) and rolls down the hill.]
Stuck https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Becky-Mushko-ebook/dp/B00CKEM4TE

10/01/2025

The Franklin County Genealogy Research Group would like to thank author and speaker Rev. Bernie Jones for coming to our monthly meeting and speaking about the research she did which concluded in her book “Fathers of Conscience”

Bernie’s book can be purchased from-

https://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Conscience-Mixed-Race-Inheritance-Antebellum/dp/0820332518/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3BYBHNVUN7OSH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._ErofpieN3DUjReqLdmvNAjQBNnlsRyHgD-D1Q7omKbzj7yQI4i4Dff2QEA1LAYgHaeQiwemNUucUsIz4eYHJmuHeriMXYsnu1qop8wnOQqgVRjdD3AXxbHqB0M0l9ZIAtX-vb9Xq9mfXQKjefyzf5csDJWQqh3PVFlvnBIgy-VrJxWml2rBbKt1pwpq2XnEwW-WitwEKpdvgTXTjBLq-w.3uTulrjSZqdEVinfYMgOkNLaxO-sAtQTMNxsNTAQ1F8&dib_tag=se&keywords=fathers+of+conscience&qid=1759346350&sprefix=fathers+of+cosciencs%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1