Preserving The Past To Inspire The Future For Over 50 Years

  The Watauga Association of Genealogists Northeast Tennessee was organized in 1971 and published the first Bulletin May 1972.The Bulletin is devoted to copies and abstracts of original source data relating to Northeast Tennessee and adjacent areas. The Association publishes the Bulletin semi-annually – April and October. In 2016 WAGS went to an all digital format and our Bulletin is available online for all members.

SAMPLE ARTICLE FROM A PAST BULLETIN

Genealogy Tip:

Free Online Genealogy Books

A great free genealogy resource that is often overlooked by family historians is out-of-copyright digitized books. These free genealogy books can be downloaded from a number of sources and can be incredibly useful for your research.

Internet Archive – https://archive.org/

Google Books – https://books.google.com/

Family Search Digital Library – https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/

Project Gutenberg – https://www.gutenberg.org/

Universal Digital Library, Carnegie-Mellon – http://ulib.isri.cmu.edu/

Just Free Books – https://www.justfreebooks.info/

Association Meeting Announcement

VISITORS are welcome to attend all meetings.

ANNOUNCING

The Watauga Association of Genealogists will hold its next monthly meeting at the

Johnson City Public Library and online via Zoom on 

WHEN:  Tuesday, November 5th, at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE Johnson City Public Library, 100 W Millard St., Johnson City, TN

TOPICFinding and Understanding Military Documents

SPEAKER:  Glenn Stroup

Watauga Association of Genealogists (WAGS) member Glenn Stroup will give a presentation on finding and understanding your ancestor’s military personnel documents. He will discuss sources for documents and the contents of the most important ones. Glenn is a retired Army officer who served for 27 years, including assignments as a personnel management officer. He also served with  members of the Air Force, Navy and Marines.

The public is invited to attend all WAGS meetings held  on the first Tuesday of the month.

  Zoom Meeting Link

Zoom Meeting ID: 951 8932 1435
Passcode: 457673

GETTING STARTED WITH ZOOM HELP

Join the Watauga Association of Genealogists

Membership is open to persons with genealogical or historical interests. Dues are $18.00 yearly, payable to the organization on or before January 1 of each calendar year. If you wish to join, please make checks payable to Watauga Association of Genealogists-Northeast Tennessee. A new member receives two issues of the Bulletin for the year he/she joins. All members are entitled to one free query per issue.    For more information about our group, please contact us at:  wagsnetn1971@gmail.com

 

Books and genealogical materials donated to WAGS will be reviewed in the Bulletins as space permits and will be donated to the Johnson City Public Library for the Tennessee Room.
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