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Cobb County April 26, 2022

Cobb County Citizens Public Safety Academy summer session accepting applications

The Cobb County Police Department and the Cobb Department of Public Safety announced in a public information release that the summer session for the Citizens Public Safety Academy (CPSA) will…

Cobb by the Numbers April 24, 2022

Powder Springs in the 1950 census: How to get at and start using the recently released individual records

Here’s a guide to using the recently released 1950 individual census records for Powder Springs, Georgia. These records are useful in both genealogy and historical research, in determining where individuals…

photo of Cobb Superior Court building from the front with a blue sky with clouds in the background

Cobb County April 19, 2022

Cobb Law Library to host talk on financing of long-term elder care

Kimberly Isaza, director of the Cobb County Law Library, distributed the following public information release about a talk the library has scheduled about financing long-term elder care: April 19, 2022…

Welcome to Cobb County brick sign at Henderson Road on Veterans Memorial

Cobb County April 18, 2022

How has your life in Cobb County changed since March of 2020? The Auditory Time Capsule Project wants your input

The City of Marietta posted a notice on its website of an interesting project called “2 Years Later… An Auditory Time Capsule. The following is reprinted from the city’s website:…

Cobb County Senior Services building with article about Tim D Lee Center reopening

Cobb County April 17, 2022

Spring is here and it’s time for gardening: A plant swap and a container garden workshop

Spring is here and it’s time to get out the gardening tools. Monday April 18 and Tuesday April 19 there will be a plant swap and a container garden workshop…

Cobb by the Numbers April 11, 2022

Marietta GA in the 1950 census: How to get at and start using the recently released individual records

Here’s a guide to using the recently released 1950 individual census records for Marietta, Georgia. These records are useful in both genealogy and historical research, in determining where individuals lived…

Cobb by the Numbers April 10, 2022

Smyrna in the 1950 census, how to get at and start using the recently released records

Here’s a guide to using the recently release 1950 individual census records for Smyrna. In a previous Cobb by the Numbers we looked at the release of the complete individual…

a map of the center of Mableton from 1950

Cobb by the Numbers April 3, 2022

Mableton in the 1950 census

In the previous Cobb by the Numbers we looked at the release of the complete individual records for the 1950 decennial census. By federal law detailed census records for individual…

a photo copy of a handscrawled 1950 census record on a standardized form census takers once used

Cobb by the Numbers April 3, 2022

Complete 1950 individual census records released: Here’s how to get to the Cobb County records

If you’ve ever done genealogical or historical research, you’re probably familiar with the handwritten photocopies of reports on individual households scrawled on standardized sheets by census takers. They are often…

Cobb County March 27, 2022

Cobb county manager Jackie McMorris named LiveSafe Resources “Woman of the Year”

Dr. Jackie McMorris, Cobb County’s county manager, has been named “Woman of the Year” by LiveSafe Resources. LiveSafe Resources is a service organization whose mission is to fight domestic violence,…

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Health Care February 7, 2025

US dodged a bird flu pandemic in 1957 thanks to eggs and dumb luck – with a new strain spreading fast, will Americans get lucky again?

by Alexandra M. Lord, Smithsonian Institution, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery…

Critical Thinking February 7, 2025

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