[Genealib] Atlanta Journal & Constitution

[Overbeck, James]

Tracy: Your question is not a long shot if you are wondering about who
in Atlanta might respond to your request. We are here in the
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, and like all of us, we get these kinds of
questions all the time. "It was in the paper, but I don't really know
when." As far as I know there is not index to the Atlanta papers from
about 1925 to 1985. We have in our Special Collections a hand made
subject and name index on a million 8X6 cards for the AJC from
1939-1979. As far as I know this is the only index that exists for the
AJC for these years. It is not particularly easy to use or to maintain.
And it often produces no results what so ever. With all that said, I
will search for Edward Hicks in it and see what happens. If it turns up
some results, I will contact you directly. 

 

And of course, if the patron can offer any more clues about the
editorial, such as a subject, that might provide other avenues of
approach.

 

Jim Overbeck

 

James A. Overbeck, Assistant 

Manager and Curator of the Margaret Mitchell Collection 

Special Collections Department

Atlanta-Fulton Public Library 

One Margaret Mitchell Square NW 

Atlanta, GA 30303-1089

Phone: (404)-730-1898

Fax: (404)-730-1895

Email: James.Overbeck at FultonCountyGA.Gov 

 

 

 

 

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[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy
Luscombe
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 6:29 PM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: [Genealib] Atlanta Journal & Constitution

 

I have a patron who wants to try to find a letter to the editor of the
Atlanta Journal & Constitution that his father wrote in the 1950s. He
does not know any more about the date but says it was printed in the
paper and "caused quite a stir". The writer was named Edward (Ed) Hicks.
I tried the online archives searching by Edward Hicks and Ed Hicks but
without a paid subscription I couldn't access much. Does anyone have a
fuller access than I do and might be able to do a search? I know it's a
long shot but thought I would throw it out there. 

 

Tracy E. Luscombe

Genealogy Librarian

McKinney Memorial Public Library

101 E. Hunt Street

McKinney, TX 75069

972-547-7343

tluscombe at mckinneytexas.org

 

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