Hi Wake Researchers. We have some very exciting news for all of you. Wake County Genealogical Society has recently decided to change the way we share our Wake Treasures Journal content with you at the Wakecogen website. I think you will enjoy this surprise. Here is the announcement from webmaster, Cynthia Gage:
"Wake Treasures Goes Public!
It is well-known how technology has changed the way information is disseminated. The growth of online platforms are providing new ways of sharing and reaching a broader audience. WCGS has seen these changes and over the years has expanded its outreach through our WCGS Facebook and WCGS Blog social-media pages. We also modernized our website several years ago and then converted our newsletter distribution to an on-line digital format where issues can be stored and made available at the click of a mouse!In the past hard-copy publications provided the standard format for keeping information available, but these are only useful when they can be conveniently accessed. Thus, the next step for WCGS involved making changes to our Wake Treasures Journal. This summer, the Society voted to change our method for disseminating information usually found in the journal to other formats including our social media sites, our newsletter, and our website. In the spirit of increasing our support to the genealogical community, the Board also voted to make all past issues of Wake Treasures available to both members and non-members alike!Wake Treasures is the multi-award winning journal of the Wake County Genealogical Society. Over the years the number of issues per year has varied from two to four. From the Wake Treasures page you can download in pdf format, any or all of the Wake Treasures issues which have been published starting with the first issue in 1991 ... to 2022.To help your search, there is a Subject Index available for the first 25 volumes of the Journal. We hope you are successful in finding your Wake ancestors in the record transcriptions and abstractions available in these genealogically rich issues."
Yes!! Journal access is now free and open to all, visitors and members alike.
Please visit our website and check out all the goodness nestled in those pages. Each issue has a name index at the end. Be sure to check for your ancestor surnames there. Access all the content from the WCGS Publications tab on our home page.
It's like Santa came a little early and left a nice prezzy in your genealogy stocking!
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I applaud this move to reach more people. Well done!
ReplyDeleteRon, please spread the word. We want folks to feel free to come browse the collection in hopes of making family history connections. The more the merrier!
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