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Georgia Genealogy Resources

  • Austin, Jeannette Holland. The Georgia Frontier. 3 Volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006, 2005. Volume I: Colonial Families to the Revolutionary War Period. Volume II: Revolutionary War Families to Mid-1800s. Volume III: Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina Families.

  • Austin, Jeannette Holland. Georgia Intestate Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1986. This work contains abstracts of the intestate records of the 57 Georgia counties formed before the 1832 Land Lottery, plus those for Dawson (1857), Fulton (1853), Webster (1853), and White (1857) counties. Besides the name of the deceased and the dates of the various court papers, information in the abstracts includes the names of the administrators, sureties, and guardians (often relatives of the deceased), names of the surviving spouse and children, names of orphan children and heirs, and, where a will is recorded, names of legatees.
     
  • Blair, Ruth, editor. Some Early Tax Digests of Georgia, 1790-1918. 2 volumes. Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia Archives, 1926.
     
  • Bryan, Mary G. Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia, 1785 to 1809. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1959, 2001.
     
  • Bryan, Mary G. and William Dumont. Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia, 1810 to 1820. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1964.
     
  • Coulter, E. Merton and Albert B. Saye. A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia. Baltimore, Maryland, 2006, 1949, 1967.

  • Davidson, Grace Gillam. Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County. Greenville, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1992.
     
  • De Lamar, Marie and Elisabeth Rothstein. The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia
    Substitutes for Georgia's Lost 1790 Census    . Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006, 1976.Extracted data found in wills, deeds, tax digests, court minutes, voters' lists, newspapers, and other contemporary records--records roughly contemporaneous with the 1790 census--and they have identified about 15,000 Georgians who were living at the time of the 1790 census.

  • Digital Library of Georgia. The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. The Digital Library of Georgia connects users to 500,000 digital objects in 105 collections from 60 institutions and 100 government agencies. Though this represents only a fraction of Georgia's cultural treasures, the Digital Library of Georgia continues to grow through its partnerships with libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and allied organizations across the state.
     
  • Dumont, William H. Colonial Georgia Genealogical Data, 1748-1783. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1988.
     
  • 1838-1879 Georgia State Census Records. Microfilmed under this title by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957, 1961. Film # 7010.
     
  • Georgia Civil War Pension Records. Georgia State University is undertaking this community service project to provide access to the Georgia Department of Archives and History's collection of microfilmed pension records of Georgia confederate civil war veterans and their widows.

  • Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927 – Imaged Records – Name index and images of Georgia statewide deaths. FamilySearch.

  • Georgia Deaths, 1928-1930 – Imaged Records – Name Index and images of Georgia statewide deaths. Original records are arranged chronologically by year and then by certificate numbers. FamilySearch.
     
  • Georgia Department of Archives and History. The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia's most valuable historical documents.
     
  • Georgia GenWeb Project.

  • Georgia Marriages 1808-1967 - Name index to marriage records from the state of Georgia - 1,152,385 records as of 6 May, 2010. FamilySearch.org.
     
  • Georgia Roots Gateway.
     
  • Georgia State Facts and History.
     
  • Georgia's Land Lotteries, 1805-1832.

  • Georgia's Virtual Vault. This is your portal to some of Georgia's most important historical documents, from 1733 to the present. The Virtual Vault provides virtual access to historic Georgia manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government records housed in the state archives.
     
  • Graham, Paul K., compiler. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery: Fortunate Drawers and Grantees. Decatur, Georgia: Genealogy Company, 2004.

  • Guide to Selected Sources in the University of Georgia Libraries.

  • Gwinnett County, Georgia: Marriages, 1833-1900. Lawrenceville, Georgia: Gwinnett Historical Society, 2007.
     
  • Higgins, Margaret Elliott, editor. Georgia Genealogical Gems. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1981.
     
  • An Index to Georgia Tax Digests, 1789-1817. 5 volumes. Spartanburg, South Carolina: R.J. Taylor Foundation, 1986.
     
  • Indexes to Seven State Census Reports for Cos. in Georgia 1838-1845. Atlanta, Georgia: R.J. Taylor Foundation, 1975.
     
  • Jones, George Fenwick. The Germans of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1986. "This list aims to include all German-speaking inhabitants of Georgia during the colonial period (1733-1783)."
     
  • LaFar, Mable Freeman and Caroline Price Wilson. Abstracts of Wills, Chatham County, Georgia, 1773-1817. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1933, 1963.
     
  • McCall, Mrs. Howard H. Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia. Volume I.  Reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co., 2004, 1941.
     
  • McCall, Mrs. Howard H. Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia. Volume II. Reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co., 2004, 1968.
     
  • McCall, Mrs. Howard H. Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia. Volume III. Reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co., 2004, 1969.

  • Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive.
     
  • Muster Rolls CSA Units.

  • Newspapers. Digital Library of Georgia.
     
  • Poss, Faye Stone. Jackson County, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings, The Forest News, June 1875 to January 1881. Snellville, Georgia: The author, 2005.
     
  • Rice, Earldene, compiler. Index to Some Early Tax Digests of Georgia. 1971.
     
  • Smith, Gerald J. To Seek a Newer World: A History of Columbia County Georgia. Appling, Georgia: Columbia County Historical Society, 2001.
     
  • Southwest Georgia Genealogical Society.
     
  • Stewart, William C. Gone to Georgia. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1965, 1999.
     
  • Substitute for Georgia's Lost 1790 Census. Albany, Georgia: Delwyn Associates, 1975.
     
  • Surviving Georgia State Censuses. Scattered state census returns for 1827, 1838, 1845, 1852 and 1859 at the Georgia Department of Archives and History in Morrow, Georgia.
     
  • Wood, Virginia S. and Ralph V. Woods, transcribers and indexers. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery. Cambridge: Greenwood Press, 1964.