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The Genealogical Society of Henry & Clayton Counties, Inc.
Post Office Box 1296
McDonough, Georgia 30253-1296
770-954-1456
email address: genealsoc@bellsouth.net

Annual Christmas Party

The Society’s annual Christmas Open House will be held on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, at 7:00 PM at the Brown House. Members are asked to bring their favorite Christmas goodies “finger food” for refreshments. This is our traditional end of the year get-together and is an excellent time to meet the new members and share fellowship with the old members.

Our story teller for the evening will be Cassie Barrow from Griffin, Georgia, who will entertain us by talking in a somewhat first person situation describing the Christmas at the Confederate White House in Richmond, Virginia, using as much of Varina Howell Davis’s words as possible. Cassie, a historian on many Southern subjects, is Second Vise President of The United Daughters of the Confederacy Atlanta Chapter # 18 and is President of the Friends of Nash Farm Battlefield.

Cassie and her family reside in Griffin. She is the mother of Tyler Wright and Georgianah Barrow and the wife of Charles Kelly Barrow. We hope to see all of you there and please bring a friend.

The Genealogical Society is located at 71 Macon Street in McDonough, Georgia, a growing town and area about 35 miles southeast of Atlanta  off I-75 South. It is housed in the 1820's home of Andrew McBride, a  Revolutionary War soldier. The house, now known as the Brown House,  is on the National Register of Historic Buildings and is among the oldest  surviving buildings in Henry County.
NEW Family Research Library Hours below

The Society has available hundreds of reference books, microfilm of  census records and old newspapers along with other items for researching your genealogy and ancestry. In addition, the Society has many publications available for your use or for sale if you cannot visit.

NEW Family Research Library Hours

Beginning October 5th. we will no longer be open on Mondays. The new days beginning October 7th. will be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10 AM to 3  PM and we are closed on all legal Holidays. However, if the normal operating hours are not convenient for you please call in advance to make special arrangements..

To become a member and receive our useful publication Ancestor Update (now a quarterly newsletter) related to Henry County's past, send us your  name, address, email address & phone number along with an annual membership fee of $30 for a single and $35 for a joint.