Georgia Women of Achievement, founded in 1992, honors three women each year whose life and career were important to the state’s history and serve as examples for future generations of Georgians.
This hall of fame has information on all of its past honorees, including videos about many of them, on its website, www.georgiawomen.org. The three women honored this year were: Lollie Belle Moore Wylie (1858-1923), a poet and writer; Mary Gregory Jewett (1908-1976), founder of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and executive director of the Georgia Historical Commission; and Henrietta Stanley Dull (1863-1964), columnist and cookbook author.
The organization is seeking nominations for its 2014 awards ceremony, with the deadline June 30. Nominations received after that date will be considered for the 2015 honors.
Nominees have to have been dead for 10 years, and their major life achievement has to have been done in Georgia — unless there were special circumstances and the work for which they are being nominated had to be done elsewhere, say in the case of Ellen Axson Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
Nomination information and forms can be found on the website. For further information, contact Executive Director Beth Bland Oleson at bbland@asginfo.net or 706-845-9085.
Browser tips
The increase in digitized documents online has been a great boon to genealogists. But many of us are having trouble opening or printing these documents. The best browsers to use for quicker access are Google Chrome (an extra but still free part of Google) and Firefox, a free download from www.mozilla.org. Try these, especially when using Familysearch.org or Ancestry.com.
Genealogy group
Our Genealogy Group meets at Clayton State University’s library in Morrow from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. the first Sunday of each month. Members share their research experiences. Contact them at ourgenealogygroup.blogspot.com or ourgenealogygroup@gmail.com.
Genealogy groups like this one are a great way to get people more involved and to offer help. Some retirement centers are also working toward setting up in-house genealogy clubs.
It never hurts to discuss your research efforts or roadblocks you’ve run into with others.
World War II draft records
Georgia’s World War II draft registration cards can be found on Familysearch.org in the Georgia section.
I recently went there and found my father and both his brothers. It is unclear how complete it is, and keep in mind that many of those who registered did not serve because of age.
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