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GCGS Society's Newest Publication Release!

The Civil War Ends: Greensboro, April 1865 - A Historical Study of the Civil War in Guilford County
The price is $19.00. NC residents please add $1.47 for NC sales tax for a total of $20.47. Order Form

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Other Featured Publications

1895 Map of Guilford County
Greensboro North Carolina: The County Seat of Guilford
The Wharton, Donnell, Shoffner Connection 1870 - 1983
Guilford County Cemeteries, Vol II, Eastern Section
1850 Census of Guilford County, Schedule 1: Population
Guilford Co., NC Court Minutes, Aug. Term 1781 - May Term 1788
Something of the Story of Deep River
C.M Miller's 1908 Map of Guilford County

See our Publications page.

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Jamestown (NC) Library - Genealogy Research Materials Section
Located in basement area of library.

        
 Back issues of Exchange Journals from other                Jamestown Library staff bookcase for library
    NC counties and other states.                                       work in progress.
 [ Courtesy of GCGS exchange program with other Societies.]                          [ Courtesy of  Charlie Cox, GCGS president for 2005-2006. ]

   
    You Know You're Taking Genealogy Too Seriously If ...
  • You are the only person to show up at the cemetery research party with a shovel.
  • When you finally sell just a few of the 2,000 "Smithwickson Family History" books you printed last year,you can resume buying groceries for your family.
  • You draped a bed linen over yourself and your reluctant spouse and children and went trick-or-treating as a “Family Group Sheet.”
  • Upon publishing your sordid family history, you entered the federal witness protection program.
  • In order to put the "final touches" on your genealogical research, you've asked all of your closest relatives to provide DNA samples.
  • You were instrumental in having "non-genealogical use of the genealogy room copy machine" classified as a federal hate crime.
  • Your house leans slightly toward the side where your genealogical records are stored.
  • You decided to take a two-week break from genealogy, and the U.S. Postal Office immediately laid off 1,500 employees.
  • Out of respect for your best friend's unquestioned reputation for honesty and integrity, you are willing to turn off that noisy surveillance camera while she reviews your 57 genealogical research notebooks in your home. The armed security guard, however, will remain.
  • You plod merrily along "refining" your recently published family history, blissfully unaware that the number of errata pages now far exceeds the number of pages in your original publication.
  • During an ice storm and power outage, you ignore the pleas of your shivering spouse and place your last quilt around that 1886 photograph of dear Uncle George.
  • The most recent document in your "Missing Ancestors" file is a 36-page contract between you and Johnson Billboard Advertising Company.
  • Ed McMahon, several t.v. cameras and an envelope from Publishers Clearing House show arrive at your front door on Super Bowl Sunday, and the first thing you say is, "Are you related to the McMahons of Ohio?".
  • "A Loving Family" and "Financial Security" have moved up to second and third, respectively, on your list of life's goals, but still lag far behind "Owning My Own Microfilm Reader."
  • A magical genie appears and agrees to grant your any one wish, and you ask that the 1890 census be restored.

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