Lookup / Volunteer page ...
If you have access to records for
the Gem County area,
and can perform lookups by request, we
need you!!
If you would like to volunteer, contact Sherri.
Please give the source you will do lookups in and your name and contact email address.
**Please click here to view the rules before asking a volunteer for assistance**
- Lucy Dill (currently unavailable)
to look up material at the library or for further information
about any of the books mentioned.
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The Emmett Public Library contains many local histories, journals,
manuscripts, and several old histories of small communities in
the Payette Valley.
- The library also has microfilm of all of the newspapers
published in the Emmett Valley since 1893.
- Small cemetaries dot the countryside in Gem County and only a few have been
indexed; however, a local genealogist, Edith Scott,
compiled all of the obituaries from the local newspapers, indexed them
and bound her indexed work into three volumes. The
fourth and fifth volumes have been recently published. Gem County Historical Society volunteers are keeping Scott's obituary book current.
- The library has acquired two new autobiographical
histories of Gem County people.
- The first one is titled IDAHO
MOUNTAINS, Our Home: Live in Idaho's Back Country. It is the life story
of Lafe and Emma Cox. The volume contains
many pictures and is indexed. A marvelous story of life in an area
known as the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.
- The second Gem County volume is Rewards of Revenge, by Art Colson. An
interesting biographical volume about a colorful Gem County man named "Deadshot" Reed, who migrated to Gem County from
Texas. Unfortunately, the book is not indexed, but well worth reading.
- A third recent acquisition by the Emmett Public Library is of wider
interest. It is titled Big Trouble, by J Anthony Lukas. A murder in a small western town (Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho) sets
off a struggle for the soule of America. The author also wrote the Pulitzer-Prize winning Common Ground.
- Angie
Will look up information in Gem County. Can take pictures of headstones. The Knox family is her ancestors in Gem County for many generations.
Additional links:
Books We Own- Lookup Service
Cyndi's List of Lookup Services
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
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