September 2016 Classes and Events
One-on-Ones
Heritage Conference Room
September 8, 2016, 2:00-2:45pmSeptember 14, 2016, 2:00-2:45pm
September 21, 2016, 10:00am-10:45am
If These Walls Could Talk: Researching the History of Your Athens-Clarke County Home
CLASS 1: When Was My House Built? Using Sanborn and Other Maps
Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 7:00pmMultipurpose Room B
Hallie Pritchett, MAGIL
Maps and air photos can be very useful resources when researching the history of your home and other properties. This session will look at the various types of maps and air photos held by UGA's Map and Government Information Library, including Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and Georgia county highway maps, and discuss how they can be used to determine when your house was built.
Part of a 4 class series. Click to view all classes in the series.
COGS Program: Power Platting: Technology Tools to Create Pictures from Property Descriptions
Saturday, September 17, 2016, 2:00pm
Multipurpose Room A
Lisa Delgado/COGS
COGS Member Lisa J. Delgado will host a presentation of Chris Staats’ webinar Power Platting: Technology Tools to Create Pictures from Property Descriptions which was originally presented through Legacy Family Tree Webinars August 12, 2015. Staats’ webinar provides an introduction to platting as well as a number of tools to help you plat property descriptions (and locate the land) using both proprietary and open source software. Following the presentation, Lisa will share examples of land deeds she platted using deed mapping software and a process she adapted from Staats’ webinar.
Lisa J. Delgado has been actively researching her family history for 20 years and is the webmaster and technology officer for Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society.
If These Walls Could Talk: Researching the History of Your Athens-Clarke County Home
CLASS 2: When Was My House Built? Researching Chain of Title
Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 7:00pm
Appleton Auditorium
Teresa Hixson
Part of a 4 class series. Click to view all classes in the series.
Fifty Years of FOIA: Should We Start Over?
Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 7:00pm
Multipurpose Room A
Fifty years after its passage, the federal Freedom of Information Act offers a textbook case of legislative history. It has served the public well in places but also maddened journalists, historians and other researchers with its byzantine processes and glacial speed. Charles N. Davis, who has spent his academic career studying the law, will walk us through one particular section of the law to illustrate its promise -- and its peril.
Refreshments courtesy of the Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library will be served following the program.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Charles N. Davis has served as Dean of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia since 2013. Prior to his appointment at UGA, he spent 14 years as a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Davis worked for ten years as a journalist after his graduation from North Georgia College, working for newspapers, magazines and a news service in Georgia and Florida before leaving full-time journalism to complete a masters degree from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication and to earn a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Florida.
Davis went on to teaching stints at Georgia Southern University and Southern Methodist University before joining the faculty at Missouri, where he served as a department chair and as executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition before assuming the deanship at the University of Georgia.
His teaching awards include the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Teacher of the Year Award in 2008, the Provost’s Award for Junior Faculty Teaching in 2001, and the University of Missouri Alumni Association’s Faculty/Alumni Award in 2008.
