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About Topics: The data found within the GlynnGen website has been mainly provided by Amy Hedrick, the webmaster. Data not submitted by Ms. Hedrick will be otherwise noted with submitter information. The purpose of this website is to provide free information for genealogy and history researchers. This is a non profit website, however donations, and/or cards or gifts of thanks, will be gladly accepted, but not solicited. The GlynnGen.com website is solely funded by the webmaster. Some folks wish to remain anonymous about their donations, for many reasons, the main one being they can't help any further. Why they can't help any further is usually due to the fact that they are not related to anyone in the data file, or they just don't know anything more because they are not researching their family history, but they want others to use their family data. This website is a constant work in progress, many files are not available as yet, but are being worked on by the webmaster as time permits. The data on this site is not just Glynn County specific. Submissions can be made for other counties that surround Glynn, i.e. McIntosh, Brantley, Camden, Wayne, and Ware Counties. Materials that can be submitted: family files or
GEDCOMs Submissions will fall under the website's copyright policy, or the submitter's guidelines. Submissions can be deleted upon the submitter's request. Also, respect for the original copyright must be followed. This website is housed at the Webmaster's home, and sometimes server problems occur due to power outages, bad weather, and server maintenance. A backup website is available at: www.rootsweb.com/~gaglynn/ This website is an exact copy of the GlynnGen site, however, it is only updated every few months, and no search engine is available.
About Email Queries Many of you send praise and compliments to the GlynnGen webmaster, and they are greatly appreciated. Within your emails you also state how you have found a long lost relative in one of the databases on the GlynnGen site. Some of these databases are just indices, and there is more information to be had. I would like to share that information with you. I have tried emailing many of you, but due to increased spam protection and high security features, many of my emails never get to you. So, if you are going to send emails to me, please be sure to set your security features so that I will be able to respond and share further data with you. AOL users and many other ISPs have higher security features that send emails to the trash bin or bounces them just by reading the subject line, so please, add my email address to your address book after you send me email, or check your trash bin. Do whatever necessary to approve my email address, if for only a few days after you have emailed me. I normally respond within a few days, so you don't have to keep my address on file long.
The material found on this website is under general copyright protection which occurs automatically for authors of original works. Although facts can not be copyrighted, the format in which they are presented can. A lot of time and effort has gone into many of the pages on this site, and due to recent theft, some pages have been protected from being copied. Protection of these pages prevents users from utilizing the copy & paste feature, printing, saving the file on a hard drive, downloading of pictures, and many other features. This is not to discourage the use of the data in personal research. If there are copy protected works that you, the researcher, would like copies of, just email the webmaster, and she will provide those copies for you. Unfortunately these steps had to be taken, one person ruins it for all. While the purpose of this site is to help researchers for free, it is not here to help others in building their own websites. User Submitted material can and will be protected in this manner unless otherwise instructed. This service has been offered in hopes of obtaining more user submitted materials, by insuring their protection from folks who can not follow the accepted use policy.
I am originally from Marion, Grant Co., Indiana, I moved to Glynn County in 1987 with my parents and brother. Many people who correspond with me think that I am of the retired person's age, but I am not. You would be quite surprised upon meeting me, as I am only 31 years old [as of 2006], and I am extensively tattooed. I epitomize what most parents fear in a child, or friend of their child. Looks can be deceiving. In 1993 I graduated from Glynn Academy, and decided, after a horrible schooling, that I no longer wanted to attend school, i.e. college. When enrolling in the 7th grade, I had to take a placement test to be sure I belonged in that grade, I didn't. According to these tests, I belonged in college or at least in the 10th grade. My parents, nor the principal of the school, would move me to a higher grade or put me in gifted classes. Why? Well, according to the principal, I wouldn't know anyone. Keep in mind I just moved here, and I didn't know anyone in the whole town let alone the school. After graduation, I worked for my parents as a secretary/office manager. When that business closed, I moved into the culinary field, cooking at many of the Jekyll Island hotels and restaurants for nearly 10 years. Finally I ended up at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel as the overnight baker. I am no longer employed there but am still working in the hotel industry. My start in Glynn County history began with cemeteries, abandoned cemeteries. One day my boyfriend was riding his dirt bike in the woods, and came across a family cemetery and told me to go see it, that it was odd for it to be where it was. I started taking photos of these cemeteries, and transcribing the stones. I then donated the information to the Glynn County GAGenWeb site hosted by Susan Gay Peterson. From doing my own family history, and being low on funds, I relied upon volunteer researchers in Indiana to help me with my work. Since I could not pay them back with research, I decided to pay it forward, by doing work in Glynn County for others who needed a volunteer helper. The more I did this, the more intriguing it became. Now, when I meet descendants of some of our high profile pioneers, I feel like I am meeting a movie star, or someone equally as famous. From that first cemetery found in 2001, I was hooked! I wanted to know who these people were, and how they contributed to my new hometown. In February of 2003, Susan Gay Peterson, who was the host of the Glynn County website for the GAGenWeb, asked me if I would be interested in taking the site over, I of course said yes! After many trials and errors, I finally got approved to maintain the website at Rootsweb. The purpose of these groups is mainly for exposure, so that researchers can find state and county websites that deal with genealogy and history. The GenWeb [comprised of the USGenWeb and the World GenWeb] at Rootsweb is purported to be the biggest, but now there are some new groups arising on the scene. These groups are not any better than, nor worse than the GenWeb Project Pages. The premise of these groups as a whole, is to provide free genealogy to researchers, and a means to document and record our history for years to come. All of the Glynn County Cemetery information [with the exception of Palmetto Cemetery] has been compiled by me, alone. I have been to every cemetery that has been found, so far. Nearly all of the indices of public records have been compiled by me, alone. The miscellaneous newspaper articles have been culled out of newspapers by me from reading said papers page by page. The reason I mention this, is to let you, the researcher, know that I am freely handing over years of research to the world wide web, for free, I am not making any money off of this. Many of our local history and records have been compiled by other researchers, and some of this data is not viewable to the public for various reasons. My goal with this website is to get as much genealogical data online, for free, as I can, to help researchers of Glynn and surrounding counties. I am not writing a book, nor am I under any grand illusion of becoming rich. So far I have only met one person who has shared her years of research for public use. Mrs. Ruth N. Vicent, co-author of the Palmetto Cemetery Book, has decades of research compiled in many forms. From personal family files, to funeral home records, all works she typed up in searchable form with the help of her sister-in-law, Sarah Cassidy. Ruth has freely given me this information to use in aiding fellow researchers, after all, that's why she compiled it, to be used, not to be stored away in some library or research repository, never to be seen by the public. It is thanks to Ruth and Sarah that I have the copious amounts of data on Glynn County and her people. Slowly, many of our local families are donating personal family histories and photos. Some are even donating records that their ancestors compiled, whether they be journals, personal letters, or ledgers used in the mercantile and trade industries. Hopefully, others will feel secure in donating materials for use on this site in the years to come. Barring any unforeseen calamities, I hope to be here, helping Glynn County researchers, for many years to come.
Donations are not being solicited, nor is there any obligation for you to make donations. Many folks would love to give just a little money or a gift in order to say thanks for my hard work. I will gladly accept any money or gifts, who wouldn't? The cost of living rises often, along with internet fees, computer maintenance, etc. Also, there are many books I would love to read, or materials I would like to purchase to help build this website such as microfilm, or subscriptions to other websites to help with my own genealogy research. On the main page is an Amazon Honor System pay box. This is a safe and quick way to donate anywhere from $1 to $50 at one time during a specified time period preset by Amazon.com who handles the transactions for me. You can even specify what you want this money used for, like buying a roll of microfilm, which costs on the average of $35, or "Hey Amy, have dinner on me." Maybe you don't want to send money, but would like to give me a gift instead, but what to buy a genealogy nerd like me? I have created a Wish List at Amazon.com that you can choose items from that I would love to have.
Unfortunately,
I no longer have time to do involved research requests.
Thank you for your time, now, back to your research, and good luck! |
My
name is Amy Hedrick, and I am the Webmaster for GlynnGen.com, it's
sister site at Rootsweb, I am also the one to contact about
information on these sites, submitting information, and requesting
lookups.