The Georgia Archives will host a symposium to launch the celebration of its 100th anniversary this year.
“Celebrating Archival Record-Keeping: The Georgia Archives at 100,” scheduled for April 7 from 9:30 a. m. until 3:45 p.m, will begin with “Intertwined Integration: The Story of Desegregation at Three Major Georgia Universities,” presented by Amanda Pellerin, Steve Armour, Laurel Bowen and Katherine Fisher. That will be followed by Dr. R B. Rosenburg on “No stone left unturned, the Georgia Archives, the Great War and its Legacy.” Up next will be “Georgia’s Treasures: Exploring Genealogy, Local History and Culture at Public Libraries” by Angela Stanley, Derek Mosley and Muriel Jackson.
Lunch is available for a cash donation.
After lunch, the speakers will be Tiffany Atwater Lee on “The Atlanta Black Archives Alliance,” with the final session containing three short presentations. Dr. David B. Parker of Kennesaw State will speak on “The Georgia Archives and the Georgia Bicentennial (of the 1930s),” Kara Flynn on “Record-keeping Partnerships and Maintaining Records about Records,” and Joshua Kitchens, of Clayton State, on “Visualizing Archives: Exploring Archives and Records in Georgia through Data Visualization.”
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is important. Anyone interested can go to https://goo.gl/kZQppk or call Caroline Crowell at 678-364-3796. More information is available at GeorgiaArchives.org. This should be a good event to learn more about the archival world and the Georgia Archives, which was first operated by Lucian Lamar Knight out of the State Capitol before moving in 1930 to Rhodes Hall, then to Morrow in 2003.
Camp Gordon in Atlanta did not become Fort Gordon
In this final year of the commemoration of World War I, we should note that the major encampment site in metro Atlanta, Camp Gordon, which opened in 1917 as a temporary training camp, never became a fort. It was decommissioned in 1919. Part of the site later became Naval Air Station Atlanta, Lawson General Hospital, and eventually part of the Peachtree-DeKalb Airport. Many people erroneously merge it with Fort Gordon in Augusta, 150 miles away, which began as a new Camp Gordon in 1941 and became a fort in 1956. During World War I, the Augusta encampment was known as Camp Hancock, at a different location. Be sure you are accurate when speaking of Atlanta’s Camp Gordon.
Meaning of names
See the website Behind the Name at behindthename.com to learn the meaning and origins of your family’s first names. It also goes into different nationalities for name origins. It is always worth knowing a name’s origin.
