Who lived there?

Carolyn L. Barkley notes:

"I have written on several occasions about the exhilaration of moving beyond names and dates and adding detail about the lives of our ancestors. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to put their feet on the ground in a specific place and time. A significant resource in that effort can be found in Sanborn fire insurance maps."... here's the rest of the article

If you are traveling to visit family this holiday season, it seems appropriate to share the two resources available through GALILEO that can help you find the information to flesh out the story about the family home.

The two resources are the Georgia Sanborn Fire Insurance maps and the US census in Ancestry Library Edition.

Go to GALILEO
Select Databases A-Z
....A for Ancestry Library Edition which is only available for use at the public library
.......Select census collection, US census.
.......It's not easy to search by location but once you have the township you can browse through the list. It's easier to find a person in the census than a house.
....S for Sanborn Fire Insurance or go directly to the Digital Library of Georgia (no password needed).
........It's easier to find the house than a name in the Sanborn collection.

You'll need to use your detective skills to figure out how to find the people in one source and find the house in the other. And let me know how you do it!

Happy holidays.... see you in January.

-kls