Jackson County Genealogical Society

Welcome to the Jackson County (North Carolina) Genealogical Society web site. JCGS is a non-profit corporation, founded in July 1991, to meet the needs of Jackson County family researchers. Its goals are to publish and share genealogical information of interest to Jackson County researchers; to educate its membership through programs, workshops, and publications; and to encourage the collection and preservation of genealogical source materials and compilations.

Jackson County Court House

Left: architect's sketch of historic court house and new library.

Right: entrance to the library and historic courthouse offices

If you have information and or articles you would like to submit for the website,

please e-mail the webmaster.

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Jackson County Genealogical Society is pleased to announced

The Scott Foundation Scholarship

details & application

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The long awaited reprint of

The Heritage of Jackson County, Volume I

will be in progress very soon.

A limited number will be printed so

Reserve your copy now!

details

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Monthly Meeting

Thursday, June 13

7:00 pm

Community Room

Jackson County Public Library Complex

Program

“Tears in the Rain; The Ghosts of Cowee Tunnel” is the name of the Jackson County Genealogical Society’s June program. The speaker will be Jackson County author, playwright, and storyteller, Gary Carden. Carden will discuss recent developments regarding the Cowee Tunnel and the research that revealed the names of the 19 convict laborers who drowned in the adjacent Tuckaseigee River and the eventual discovery of their grave sites.

The program will be in the Community Room of the Historic Jackson County Courthouse on Thursday, June 13 at 7pm. .

All JCGS events are free of charge and the public is welcome.

Everyone Welcome!

for directions or more information,

contact the society at 828-631-2646

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Jackson County Genealogical Society

is the proud recipient of the

2012 Mountain Heritage Award

Left to right: Scott Philyaw, Director of the Mountain Heritage Center, Kenneth Nicholson, President of JCGS, Ruth Shuler, office manager, Bud Cantrell and Bill Crawford, co-vice presidents, and Susan Belcher, wife of WCU Chancellor David Belcher. Photo courtesy of WCU.

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Macon County Cemeteries Volume II is now available!

See our Bookstore page

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