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

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