GHC, Bartow Museum To Host Family History Night

CARTERSVILLE, GA — Georgia Highlands College, Bartow History Museum and Reinhardt University have teamed up to host two free workshops to help you create a family tree. Family History Night will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 23 and Oct. 30 at GHC's Cartersville location.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature Reinhardt University Professor Pam Wilson, who will offer a brief tutorial on how to use geni.com to build a collaborative family tree and how to use ancestry.com and other resource databases to find historical documents. Attendees will also learn how to create their very own family tree. The Bartow History Museum will be on site to review any notes about family history, any old photos, letters, artifacts or documents and assist with documenting these items for a family tree.

Geni is an online tool for creating a family tree. Using the basic free service at geni.com, users add and invite their close relatives to join their family tree. Users can share photos, videos, and documents with their families. Ancestry.com uses historic records, family trees and samples from millions of people to compile in a database for people to learn more about their family histories.

The GHC location is at 5441 Highway 20 in Cartersville. For more information, contact GHC Associate Professor Sean Callahan at scallaha@highlands.edu.

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