On Thursday June 9 Cobb County’s planning department held a meeting to get citizen input to guide the development of the 2040 Cobb County comprehensive plan. The plan will apply…
The City of Powder Springs issued the following news release on behalf of the city, Cobb Public Library, and The Book Worm Bookstore: The Powder Springs community is invited to…
The City of Powder Springs, the Book Worm Bookstore, and the Cobb Public Library announced the next One Book, One City event in Powder Springs. We’ve reprinted the announcement from…
The Courier has run a few articles about the recently released 1950 individual census records. The Switzer Library branch of the Cobb Public Library will host a two-hour workshop with…
Here’s a guide to using the recently released 1950 individual census records for Austell, Georgia. These records are useful in both genealogy and historical research, in determining where individuals lived…
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…
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…
I took down an article I’d posted recognizing Arab American Heritage Month because it contained a reading list from a third-party source that included non-Arab-American authors. I’ve contacted the compiler…
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…
On Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. ET on the ABC network (and on Hulu the next morning) we’ll be able to watch Kennesaw State University graduate and Cobb Public Library…