I just received the following information from my long-term friend, Elmer Spear:
Elmer’s Genealogy Library in Madison, Florida, established by Elmer C. Spear will be merging with the Huxford Genealogical Library in Homerville, Georgia early in 2010. The merged Library will be housed in Homerville.
This merger has already been approved by the Board of Directors of both libraries, and the transfer of over 30,000 books will start taking place as soon as the City of Homerville completes the renovation of the building that will house the combined libraries.
This decision to merge Elmer’s Library with the Huxford Library was made to ensure the survival of the Elmer’s Genealogy Library collection into the future. After the merger, the new library will be the finest private genealogical library in the southeastern United States.
The new library will be named the Huxford – Spear Genealogical Library to honor the two men who spent a lifetime accumulating this treasure of genealogical information. This new library will be managed by the Huxford Genealogical Society.
Mr. Spear,
I would like to do some research on the D’Alemberte (d’Alember) linage in my family. My mother was a Whitfield from Tallahassee and I know a lot about that side of the family. My father was from Pensacola where there were, at the turn of the century (19th to 20th) a number of families with French heritage in Pensacola. I do not know much about them.
Is there some one who does good research who you can recommend to me? If possible, I would like to get this done before Christmas so I can present it to family members.
I am willing to pay a reasonable fee for this service.
Thanks. I hope all is well with you and your wife.
Sandy D’Alemberte