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Browsing Archive: January, 2011

Found At The Archives

Posted by Melissa Barker on Wednesday, January 26, 2011,
The work at the Houston County Archives continues on a weekly basis.  We are just now starting to unearth some interesting and historical documents about Houston County and it's people.  One of the wonderful finds we have found is a rare hand bill that would have been posted around Houston County to announce tax collections by the Trustee.  This is a rare document because when the event was concluded this hand bill would have been taken down and thrown away.  We found this document tucked in ...
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Houston County Archives, The Beginning...

Posted by Melissa Barker on Monday, January 17, 2011,
Since this is the first blog post about the Houston County Archives, I thought I would relate how we got started. One of our Houston County residence was doing research on her ancestor at the Houston County Library. She found a record on microfilm that she wanted to see the original record in the original book.  She was directed by our County Librarian to go to the courthouse where the records vault was located and she could find the record there.  When she got to the vault and opened the doo...
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Melissa Barker Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Records Manager currently working as the Houston County, Tennessee Archivist since 2010. She is also a Professional Genealogist lecturing, teaching and writing about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual webinar presentations all across the United States for genealogical and historical societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives. In 2016, she became the Reviews Editor for the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) magazine FORUM. She has been researching her own family history for the past 25 years.

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