Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council awards grants

Published 10:37 am Thursday, October 5, 2023

By Lake Oconee Breeze

The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council (GHRAC) seeks to enrich the culture and protect the rights of Georgians by fostering activities that identify, preserve, and provide access to the State’s documentary heritage. Using funds awarded to the University of Georgia Libraries and the Georgia Archives by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), GHRAC awarded grants totaling $32,957 to the following entities to develop and/or implement projects to identify, preserve, and provide access to historical records:

•Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia received $4,708 to organize, process, scan, and create finding aids of its collection of artist and professor James Sitton.

•City of Sandy Springs received $4,680 to create a publicly accessible online portal to an inventory of its Sandy Springs Heritage Collection Online.

•Douglas County Board of Commissioners received $3,200 to conserve, prepare, digitize, index, and upload, Clerk of Superior Court records including charters, petitions, deeds, and articles of incorporation dating from 1866 to 1937.

•Greene County Historical Society received $3,600 to organize, protect, digitize, index, and upload historic records stored in its museum

•Mulberry Street United Methodist Church received $4,450 to organize, digitize, index, and upload records of the Methodist Church in southern Georgia back to the 1820s and to develop a collections policy.

•Joel Chandler Harris Association Inc. received $5,000 to organize, describe, and preserve the archives of its house museum.

•Moore Methodist Museum received $3,150 to organize its collection documenting the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church and South Georgia.

•Smyrna Public Library received $1,869 to organize its collection of photographs, negatives, and slides.

•Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home received $2,300 to organize its collections pertaining to the history of the museum property back to the 1830s.

GHRAC plans to offer a similar grant opportunity in 2024, dependent on federal funding. More information will be released in the coming months.