Decatur County Genealogical Society, Inc

04/20/2023

05/31/2021

To the members of the Decatur County Genealogical Society: There is still unfinished business pertaining to the society that needs to be resolved. We would like to have a meeting at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, 12 June 2021 at the LDS Church in Bainbridge (1510 West Longleaf Drive, Bainbridge, GA 39819. If you are able to attend, we would appreciate it.
Thank you.

08/27/2020

All good things must come to an end. Our Society has gone inactive and our Library is now closed. Our holdings have been donated to the Decatur County Historical Society. We thank you for your past patronage and support.

This page will remain up in the hopes that people will find the past posts useful, however, no new information will be posted.

03/05/2020

02/22/2020

Here is a great article describing the charm of "Our Town" -
Bainbridge, GA.

https://www.laurelmercantile.com/blogs/journal/the-priceless-design-lessons-of-a-small-southern-town?fbclid=IwAR0Qs2PVoUJBeiv5-yOAALIbs7sykJIy04nZSx7apNCdcst6HEBF2R04iG8

02/18/2020

History is not just names and dates. In fact, genealogy, if it is part of the general area of history, should not be just about names and dates. There is a famous quote from a movie that ends with the statement, "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." Well, th...

12/16/2019

A Seminole War fight for survival! by Dale Cox The site of Fort Hughes is marked by a federal monument placed at today's J.D. Chas...

12/11/2019

The DLG has just made available more than 100,000 pages from 188 Civil War and Reconstruction-era Georgia newspaper titles, thanks to funding from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation. Learn more here: https://blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?p=7430

11/04/2019

Raymond Miles and other discuss Bainbridge earlier in their lives.