This morning was an exciting time at our library for three groups of 4th grade gifted students from the Colquitt County School System.
Approximately 20 to 25 students in each group participated in a program that introduced the children to finding family members through genealogy, as well as learning about the Depression era, world wars, and Georgia history.
Michele Croft, our Children's Library Coordinator, showed and talked about books she had brought from the Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library, one of three libraries in the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System. The books told about African slaves, captured dancing bears, letters from Georgia's Civil War soldiers, and ancient maps.
The children saw a display of old items that included a framed letter and a land deed, a leather bomber jacket, an early phone, scrapbooks, newspapers, and more maps. They also were allowed to hold a heavy piece of shrapnel from D-Day and learned the meaning of that particular time in history.
Since everyone likes to take something away with them, the handouts were numerous. There were Family Record sheets; a Scavenger Hunt about Georgia, Moultrie, and Ellen Payne Odom; Pedigree Charts; and family origins, folklore, social and local history.
The genealogy program offered by Mrs. Croft provides not just a field trip out of school, but an insight into history and family life. She hopes the program will make each student curious about their own families and how they fit into the world's history...curious enough to want to come back to the Odom Library and delve into their own genealogy.
Genealogy for children helps us adults pass to our future generations the history of not only family life, but how our country was formed and why, as well as the reasons we continue to fight to keep it free and strong.
If you'd like to know more about this interesting program and how it could be adapted to your organization, please contact Mrs. Croft at the library, 229-985-6540.
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