Branch out with resources, advice offered at free Statesboro seminar

Panels, Ga. records at all-day event can help trace your past.

A Genealogy Resource Fair will be held March 23 in Statesboro at the Georgia Southern University Continuing and Professional Education Building, 10449 US 301.

The all-day event is free and will feature genealogical, historical and educational resources that can be found in Georgia. In the expo hall, there will be a place for vendors and other exhibitors. Presentations will be given throughout the day by various repositories (libraries, archives) as well as genealogical organizations.

Door prizes will be presented at the end of the fair.

Registration can be done ahead of time online and at 9 a.m. on-site, with participants getting a directory, door-prize tickets and the schedule. Lunch is on your own, with food nearby, including food trucks.

Questions can be emailed to the coordinator, Lillian Wingate, at lillianw@strl.info.

To check for further updates or to register in advance, go to strl.info/ genealogy, and click the drop-down genealogy tab on the website of the genealogy department of the Statesboro Regional Library.

Crumptons post Franklin County plats

The friends and family of Dan Crumpton — long noted for his website crumptonplats.com and his series of books on Georgia land records and plats for the counties of Burke, Jefferson, Richmond, Warren and Wilkes — have placed on his website the plats for Franklin County.

There are now 3,799 Franklin County plats there, as well as thousands from the other counties mentioned above.

Check these out as his last book on Franklin County is being prepared for publication. His books can be found at any major genealogy library collection and at the Georgia Archives.

Find free resources at Family Tree website

Family Tree Magazine at familytreemagazine.com offers a large number of free genealogy resources too long to list here. Go to their website, create a free account and receive access to them, under the tab “Free Resources.”

They look to be very helpful to many people just beginning genealogy, so it’s worth reviewing. Topics include planning a family reunion, helping identify family heirlooms, checklists for various genealogy projects, hints to writing a family history, as well as the usual for census and other genealogy records.