Research Resources

I hope you find these resources helpful in your search for your ancestors. The links are on the left. If you have any resources that you consider helpful, please let me know.

 

THROUGH MOUNTAIN MISTS

Articles written by Ethelene Dyer Jones
Permission granted by original author
originally published in the Georgia Sentinel
Archivist and Transcriber:  Linda Garrett

Click Here for the Index to the Articles

 

LINKS

State of Georgia:  Genealogy, Facts and Record Research

Georgia County Maps and Atlases

Woody Cousins

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~woodycousins/Woody_Cousins/index.htm

Dot Map

http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/DOTmaps/unionDOTmap.pdf

Union County Historical Society

http://www.unioncountyhistory.org/

African American

http://www.cyndislist.com/african-american/

Native Americans

http://www.cyndislist.com/native-american/

  GenForum

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ga/union/

 GAGenWeb Archives

USGenWeb GA Tombstone Project

http://www.usgwtombstones.org/georgia/georgia.html

Books available for research:

Union County Historical Society

Family Books on File

NOTE:  None of the below items may not be checked out but are available to study, read and research. 

Addington

Butt-Hedden

Carter - Lucinda and Peter Stroud

Chambers Family Reunion History Book

Chastain (2 books)

Cobb

Cobb, Mamie Mae Teague Cobb Journal

Collins:  Thompson & Celia Collins – Celia & Henry Collins by Mamie Collins Aydelotte

Combs

Conley Family – by Hubbard

Cook – see Wimpey

Corn Family Bible – Birth & Death records

Dockorys of Dixie – 2^nd Edition by Hampton

Douglas:  The Douglas In His Hall

Duckworth

Duncan-Gillespie

Dyer, Clark

Dyer Newsletter

Dyer-Souther:  Dyer Family History

Erwin, John

Heavers of the Virginias – 2 volumes

Hedden – see Butt-Hedden

Henderson Genealogy – Gumlog District

Henderson, James and Arthur

Henson – Mountain Tops

Henson Family Tree – “Contigeum”

Henson, Descendants of John Henson

Henson, James

Hood – Reunion Magazine

Hood, The Hood Family History – 2 volumes

Jackson, Miria & Jehue Wimpey

Joiner, Asa & Family

Jones – Peaceful Solomon Valley by Mildred Nicholson

Logan, Major Francis, Andrew & Lydia (2 books)

Martin Family – Roots, Trees, Branches & Twigs

Martin, Ida Elizabeth – “Her Family Remembers”

McGinnis, “My McGinnis History Begins to Fit”

McGlamery:  see Walker, McGlamery & Wallace

Mikronis – “Their Life In Their Hands” by C. Edgar Mikronis – WWII Story

Neece:  Neece Genealogy

Nelson – see “My Sister and I”

Nix:  Into Choestoe For Roots and Beyond for Branches of the Lum and Lillie Nix Family

Owebey, Perminter – Genealogy of the Oweby Family

Owmbey:  The Early Owmbeys of Union Co. GA.

Ownbey, Humphery Posey & Emily Israel

Ownbey:  Porter W. Ownbey

Parham:  “A Few Descendents of William Parham”

Patillo:  Patillo, Pattullo, & Pittillo Families

Payne:  The Payne Family Records

Penland:  “The Penland Family of North Carolina”

Reece & Jones:  “Peaceful Solomon Valley” Reece Family

Reinhardt – Shuford, Warlick, Hoyle by Lois Willingham

Rich:  The Robert and Martha Rich Family

Russell:  Simon Russell of Alabama, Ancestry

Scoggins:  see “The Little Footprints”

Self:  Researching the Selfs by Sonja Self Gordy [also Self Family Newsletters in file]

Souther:  see Dyer – Souther Family History

Smith:  “My Memories” by Marga Patton Smith

Stroud:  Peter Grayson Stroud & Lucinda Carter; Peter Garrett Stroud by Lake & Kathy

              Stroud; Stroud Genealogy

Stroud:  Stroud Family History by Charles T. Ingram, Jr. [also a CD on Stroud and Mashburns]

Sullivan:  “The Family of William and Rebecca Sullivan” and the Family of Rev. Daniel Asbury

     Sullivan:  William Sullivan and Family

Sullivan:  “History and Legend of Disappointment Country” by Wilma Crisp Bankston

Thomas Family by Barbara Thomas Collins

Townsend:  see Townsends of North Georgia (2 books)

Twiggs:  see “The Old Homeplace” by Barbara Crawford

Walker:  “A Step in Progress” also Kelley-Wallace, McGiamery and Allied Families

Wilson:  see also “Kids & Kinfolk of George Wilson”

Wimpey:  “A Genealogy of the Wimpey Family”, Three Centuries of Wimpeys”, Ancestors and

                 Descendants of Thanie Elvira Cook and James Lafaette Wimpey, also see Nelson

Update to Union County Historical Society Genealogy Library as of 12-1-2006

1.                   The Mountains of Yesteryear –by Ruby Lee Sargent (Dyer-Souther Family)

2.                   The Nichols Family of North Georgia and the Related Cansler, Black, Puett, Coffey, and Boone Families – by Thelma K. Bevans, Owen N. Meredith, and Robert M. McBride with Introduction by John Nichols (done in 1960 & 2002)

3.                   Reece Family – Compiled by Weldon Reece

4.                   Spiva (or Spivey) Family – Compiled by Weldon Reece

5.                   The Ancestors of Robert William Stewart-Georgia Connections – Compiled by Robert William Stewart (1995)

6.                   A History of the Sutton Family of White County, GA 1825-2005.  Descendants of Andrew Jackson Sutton and Susan Caroline Collins Sutton – by Jennifer Sutton Smith (2005)

7.                   Thomases of Toe River, Roses Branch, NC to Georgia – Extended Family and Descendants – by Leslie Barker Thomas

Monthly Newsletter – “The Chestnut Tree” publication of the Pierre Chastain Family Association

Union County, Georgia Mystery Photos

contributed by David Boehmer
who writes: "I received this photo from Jimmy Deaver who lives in Union Co.  He does not know where the photo was made. Jimmy is a nephew to Dewey Deaver b. 1900, who was briefly married to my great-aunt Maybelle Odom.  Dewey died at age 20 of the flu or pneumonia.  Maybe one of your readers can identify some of the people in the photo.  Jess Deaver is marked.  Henry Deaver, a brother, is identified with the arrow.  This photo was made between 1906 and 1910.  I am pretty sure (from census records) that the school is located in Union Co.  But there is a slight possibility that it is located just across the county line in Cherokee Co., NC (a couple of the brothers were born there).  I would like to see if anyone can identify the school and it's location (prob. Ivy Log dist); and can anyone identify any of the other children."

UPDATE!!
This photo was recognized by Lynna Clampitt who writes:
"I saw this picture as a young girl at the home of my grandmother. She (Iva Myrtle Franks) is the second little girl on the front row, from the left. My grandfather is the little boy on the far right of the front row. His name was Vance Zeb Underwood.
I can’t quite remember where Granny said this was taken at…I do believe they lived in the Choestoe area at one time, near one another…however, considering the age of my grandmother at the time of this photo, it is quite possible that this was somewhere near Plott Town in Young Harris, as that is where my Grandmother was born."