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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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