On Saturday, September 8, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. the Georgia Archives will be presenting a new tour “Georgia Archives, 100 Years: Where We Are Now”: Flattening the Counties of Georgia: Creating Access to Court Records.

This will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the process of protecting and preserving court records in our Conservation Lab.  There will be step-by-step examples of the process.  Currently, reference staff and preservation staff have been working on facilitating access to 18th and 19th-century court records from Hancock County. This process includes humidifying and flattening the tri-folded documents, removing dirt and mold residue as necessary, labeling folders with case names, and putting them in chronological order. Each unfinished box becomes two or three finished boxes ready for access by archives patrons.

Next, the tour group will go to the first floor to our Original Documents Reading Area in our Reference Room to see the processed court records and hear the unique stories and information of what court records can contain.
 
The tour is free. No registration is required. Please wear comfortable shoes.