Luciana Spracher illuminates the use by researchers of local government archives. To do so, she presents an illustrated introduction to some historical documents pertaining to Savannah’s Irish community. These include: alien declarations; naturalization records; tax digests; voter registration logs; business-permit and building-permit applications; property improvement books; Health Department death registers; and more.
Luciana Spracher
Luciana Spracher is Director of the City of Savannah’s Municipal Archives, and prior to that served as the City’s first Archivist. With the Municipal Archives, she has the pleasure of preserving and protecting the City’s rich historical assets and sharing them with Savannah’s citizens and visitors. Before joining the City, she was the owner and principal of Bricks & Bones Historical Research specializing in architectural and local history, and worked as a project archivist for the Georgia Historical Society, the Savannah Jewish Archives, and the Catholic Diocese of Savannah Archives. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Savannah College of Art and Design in Historic Preservation and a Master’s degree in Public History from Armstrong Atlantic State University. Spracher attended the Modern Archives Institute at the National Archives & Records Administration and is a Certified Archivist through the national Academy of Certified Archivists. She is the author of Lost Savannah (Arcadia Publishing, 2003), A History of Thunderbolt, Georgia (Thunderbolt Museum Society, 2003) and co-editor of Voices of Savannah: Selections from the Oral History Collection of the Savannah Jewish Archives (Savannah Jewish Archives, 2004).