Volunteers Needed

The wonderful thing about the Internet is that it enables us to participate in organizations and events that sometimes health and circumstance might deny. Listed below are projects that need doing. They would of course require time, but sometimes that is something that lays heavy on our hands and we need an opportunity to make a difference. Please consider taking on one of the tasks below. Remember it is in the smallest detail that the individual comes alive...hobbies, habits, nuances of speech, songs they love, music, color of clothing, vehicle they drive, illnesses they endured or passed away from, their passion in life and their faith. Pictures of many of these founding fathers/mothers are in the church histories. Your project can be as small as volunteering to scan some documents already at Landmarks to writing your own family history to place there to writing a bigger history like those mentioned below.

Send your scanned pictures and biographies in every category to Sharman Ramsey, Marty Oliff (Archivist at TSUD), Frank Gaines and William Holman (director of Landmark Park). All of these pictures and biographies can be digitally filed and saved to be presented through CD. Original letters and memorabilia that should be preserved should be offered to TSUD for preservation by Marty Oliff. By sending a copy to each of these individuals, the files will be backed up and used for the different purposes of those individuals...website, archives, photo collections, and living history. Attach the 1) photo and a 2) Word document (biography), for each individual. We would also like a 3) family group file and 4) ancestral file to accompany the photo 5) recipe special to this individual or your family (and pictures of the still...Truly it would be nice if there were pictures of a "set" table. That tells so much about the way folks lived.)

Task	Volunteer	Date challenge accepted	Proposed date of completion	Possible candidates for pursuing the project?
Submit index of articles in SEAGHS publication	Articles should be posted on website with information on how to become a member, order magazine, submit articles, and acquire past articles.			SEAGHS Laura Galloway and Martha Smith
Catalogue family histories at landmark	We need a list of the family histories in the Landmark Library
Scan the family histories at Landmark and then check the scanned text for errors.	We could include these scanned family histories on our website, use them in presentations via computer, etc. I assume the Archives at the Library at TSUD has this capacity.			Southeast Alabama Genealogical and Historical Society? Laura Galloway?
Write the History of the Spann Farm with special emphasis on the Spann family's amazing community and agricultural accomplishments. Use pictures, individual biographies of all participants including laborers who came with them from South Carolina. Include Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family. What were the agricultural accomplishments that caused M.S. Spann to make the Alabama history books?				Marbury and Mary Ann Spann, Philip Shealy, Jim Brennan, Hugh Spann, Marcella West
Write a history of the Flowers Family in Dothan...Use pictures and individual biographies of all the participants in every arena in which this amazing family has participated...medicine, politics, finance and banking, insurance, building....				Dr. Robert Flowers, Lauren Flowers, Az Flowers, and Julie Torrance Shaw
Write a history of the Malone Family in Dothan...Pictures of homes, inside and out. They tell stories to later generations of how we lived. Use pictures and individual biographies of all the participants in every arena in which this amazing family has participated.				Barbara Malone Liddon, Florrie Coe, Davis Chapman, Davis and Susan Malone, Morris Slingluff
Write a history of the Saliba Family in Dothan...Pictures of homes, inside and out. They tell stories to later generations of how we lived. Use pictures and individual biographies of all the participants in every arena in which this amazing family has participated. Lebanon to Liberty: The Saliba Family of Dothan, Alabama				Annamarie Saliba Martin and J. E. and Verna Saliba
Dothan's Music History Buddy Buie, Wilbur Walton, Bobby Goldsboro, Jo Johnston, Sally Garner, Ina Walden Harrison,				Jude Southerland Kessler, Connie Miller, and Sally Garner
Entertainers: Drawn to the Bright Lights Movies and Stage Johnny Mack Brown et. al.				J. E. and Verna Saliba, Catherine Ford Fancher
Art and Artists of the area. This could be a beautiful coffee table book with examples of art, biographical information, homes and museums that house collections of these artists...				Judy Harris, Jeannie Dowling, Elaine Johnson, Alberta Sanders
Collect photographs of early doctors (1893-1953), their homes, their offices, their biographies (Education, specialties, etc)				Medical Auxilliary and the B. C. Chalker family and the Keyton family
Collect photographs of early lawyers, their homes, their offices, their biographies, their idiosyncracies. Interesting tales, speeches, etc.	Please send pictures, anecdotes, old speeches, biographies, clippings, etc to Julia Trant and Tom Sorrells. Anyone got a copy of Oscar Tompkins famous speech "SOBs I Have Known in the Houston County Bar"?	August 6, 2008 We plan to ask the Bar Association for assistance with this project		Julia Trant, Tom Sorrells, Mike Crespi, Forrest, Sam and Mary Earl Adams, Hamp, Wade and Joan Baxley
Collect photographs of early architects and builders, their homes, their offices, their biographies, homes they built, their training, etc.				Joe Donofro, Sue Dunseth and Hugh Spann
Collect information the early settlers of Cusseta and Coweta who hunted and camped at Poplar Springs and on the Malunjin Indians who occupied this area......stories of those who remained after the Creek Wars and genealogical records of their descendants.
Collect portraits of Colonial ancestors of Dothan residents and pictures of their homes. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family.				Marion Hall, Carolyn Wallace and Betty Fricke Daughters of the American Colonists
Collect portraits of Revolutionary ancestors of Dothan residents, records of their service, and pictures of their homes, and information on their later lives. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family on the community.				Martha Foy and Martha Ann Blackmarr Daughters of the American Revolution
Collect portraits of the ancestors of both sides who fought in the War Between the States of all races in every capacity of Dothan residents and pictures of their homes. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family.				Angela Harrell and Martha Smith and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Ken Carr, Joel Ramsey and Ken Chancey of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Collect portraits of War of 1812 (Creek Indian War included) ancestors of Dothan residents and pictures of their homes. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family.				Society for the War of 1812 Carolyn Wallace
Collect pictures of World War I ancestors of Dothan residents and pictures of their homes. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family.				Veterans of Foreign Wars
Collect pictures of World War II ancestors of Dothan residents and pictures of their homes. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family.				Veterans of Foreign Wars Walter and Joyce Long
Collect pictures of Korean War and Vietnam ancestors of Dothan residents and pictures of their homes. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family.				Veterans of Foreign Wars
Collect pictures and biographies of those Dothan citizens who participated in the Civil Rights Movement of Dothan residents and pictures of their homes. Genealogy family files and ancestral sheets should be given to participants to fill out to complete the full picture and impact of the family.				Rosalyn James and Raefield Vestor
Write a history of the Technological Accomplishments of Dothan citizens from the Covington Planter to the metal buildings of the Downs Family, to the bomb that was designed WWI era, to the electronic dog fence one of our citizens designed. Genius of the Wiregrass ?
Write a history Tales of Radio in Dothan				Hart Dowling, Leigh Simpson, and Agnes Westerfield Dowling Simpson
Write a History of Television in Dothan				Richard Woods
Movie Gallery: Diary of a Corporation Have a vision and dream big dreams				Harrison Parrish
Cottage Gardens in Southeast Alabama Heritage Gardens of Southeast Alabama				Dothan Area Botanical Gardens Rona and Larry Dykes
A Jewish Community in a small Southern Town Write a history of the Temple and its members, why and where they came from, their community contributions, genealogical information.
Collect biographies and examples of furniture and cabinet makers of the area. One day Antiques Road Show will "discover" their talent and need that information.