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From: AVLady/Tate/King <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTHEAST-PIONEERS] Wallace State College
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:57:03 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <MFEFKPBOGKDGJNBDOCIGEEBNENAA.delins1@earthlink.net>


My goodness but Wallace State is impressive! I have family that live around in the area and they never go there. Their collection was a very extensive one as is the one at Samford University in B'ham/Homewood. (http://library.samford.edu/about/sc/collections/other.html)

I always thought that holding a family reunion around the Hanceville area might prove interesting to say the least.

Then head to Guntersville for some fishing.

Stubby

delins1 <> wrote: Wallace State is not the same as the Cullman County Public Library. Wallace
State is an excellent repository for genealogy data pertaining to Alabama,
Georgia, and neighboring states such as Mississippi and Tennessee. There
are even some Texas records there that usually are not found in most Texas
public libraries.

I live in Virginia and try to incorporate a trip to Wallace State in each of
my Alabama research trips. Below is some data I copied from assorted pages I
found by googling "Wallace State+genealogy". Bob Davis and his staff to be
most helpful. Bob's knowledge of Georgia research is invaluable. Try
googling Bob's name to discover the many books he has written. The one
about the trial lawyer who represented the Andersonville Commander at his
trial was most interesting; and, in my opinion, should be on any Civil War
buff's reading list.

Go to http://www.wallacestate.edu/genealogy/index.html

Wallace State's extensive and growing collection of research materials
includes books, periodicals, microfilm, microfiche, CD-ROM disks, computer
programs, family folders and more. Some sources cover the entire United
States. The collection is centered on Alabama, neighboring states, the Old
South, Kentucky, the Civil War and Cherokee Indians. The program has access
to the 2.5 million microfilm reel collection of records from the
Genealogical Society of Utah.

Robert Scott Davis is the director of the Genealogy Program of Wallace State
Community College, Hanceville, Alabama. His duties include organizing field
trips for his classes to libraries throughout the country; helping to build
one of the South's most extensive genealogical collections; operating a
microfilming facility; and teaching genealogy in one of the first colleges
to offer genealogy as a college level course. In 2006, this program that he
built received the Award for Outstanding Leadership in History from the
American Association for State and Local History. Professor Davis also
teaches survey courses in geography and history.

He holds a Master of Education degree in history from North Georgia
College and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Alabama at
Birmingham. Bob is also a graduate of the Institute of Documentary Editing
of the National Historical Records Publications Commission. His more than
1,000 publications on records and research include a number of books and
more than 100 articles and reviews in professional historical, library,
education, and archival journals, including Prologue: The Quarterly of the
National Archives, Gulf States Historical Review, Agricultural History, The
Journal of Military History, Documentary Editing, The Journal of Southern
Legal History, Gulf States Review, The Alabama Review, Georgia Historical
Quarterly, and The South Carolina Historical Magazine. Robert S. Davis has
been quoted in Time, Smithsonian, CNN, NBC, and the Wall Street Journal. He
also wrote the chapters on Alabama and Georgia for the current edition of
Ancestry's Redbook. His genealogical articles have appeared in such
periodicals as Ancestry, The American Genealogist, Heritage Quest, The North
Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, and The National Genealogical Society
Quarterly.

In Alabama and Georgia, Bob has worked to raise public awareness on
saving local government records and has been a member of the Alabama
governor's historical records commission. He has been the guest speaker at
hundreds of meetings of civic, genealogical, and historical organizations.


The Wallace State Library is open year round to everyone except on
holidays and special occassions
7:30a to 8:15p Monday through Thursday
7:30a to 3:45p Friday and
9:00a to 3:00p Saturday.

My research predominately covers the following states: Virginia, North
Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma as well as some research in
South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, New
Mexico, and California.

Ruth Hasten Walsh
Among the Alabama families researched with lines in Texas are Holt,
Browning, Nelson, Perry, Hastings, Noel, Blanton, McCollum, Meadows,
Stewart, and Newby.

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Is the library at Wallace State College at Hanceville the same as the
Cullman County Library?
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> Here is the website for the Cullman County Public Library system:
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> Barry, that URL took me to a cancer website.
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Stubby Tate
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