Genealogy

If you are interested in finding information about your ancestry or information about the town of Altamont come to the Altamont Public Library.
We have a nice genealogy department which includes:

• The Altamont News from 1887-Present

• Copy of all Altamont histories

• Cemetery records for all Effingham county cemeteries

• Tombstone inscriptions

• Personal family histories that have been turned in

• Histories of surrounding counties

• Various immigration books

• War pension files (1812, Indian, Civil War)

• Genealogy Newsletters

• We can order anything we don't have

National Genealogical Society

National Archives