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U.S. - Georgia
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- AccessGenealogy - Georgia Genealogy Resource Center
- The American History and Genealogy Project - Georgia State Page - AHGP
History, genealogy, wills, data, county information, help for researchers.
- Ancestor Search - Georgia Genealogy Search Engines
- Ancestors: Resource Guide - Georgia
Contact information for archives, libraries, genealogical & historical societies, church records and ethnic resources.
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 Ancestry.com - Georgia Genealogy - Databases, Sources, How To's
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
- Colonial Ancestors
Genealogy records and information about ancestors in the 13 original colonies.
- Discover Georgia Genealogy WebRing
- ePodunk - Index 1 , Index 2
Provides ancestral demographics & categorized links to other genealogy sites.
- Family Tree Connection - Georgia Resources
Search the listings for free, view full details with a fee-based subscription.
- Footnote.com - Georgia
Footnote is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. Some areas of Footnote are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription .
- GenealogyBank.com - Georgia
GenealogyBank's collection includes modern obituaries, historical newspapers, books, pamphlets, military records, and government documents. The 2,400+ historical newspapers include letters, speeches, opinion pieces, advertisements, hometown news, photographs, illustrations and more. Searchable database results shown, images available with fee-based subscription  .
- Genealogy Buff - Library - Georgia Data
Data files for many counties including obituaries, death notices, marriage indexes, death indexes, baptisms, and births.
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 Genealogy.com: State Resources -- Georgia
- Genealogy Trails History Group - Georgia Genealogy Trails
Volunteers working together to transcribe records: biographies, cemeteries, court records, family Bibles, obituaries, newspapers, vitals, marriages, & more.
- Geneasearch: A Guide to Georgia Genealogy
Surname registry, female ancestors, ancestors archive, marriage records databases and links.
- Georgia - History and Genealogy Project
History, genealogy, wills, data, county information, help for researchers.
- G's Adoption Registry - Georgia
- Kindred Trails - Georgia Genealogy Resources
- Lineages.com - Georgia Research Room
- Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Georgia
- Looking 4 Kin - Georgia
- The Olive Tree Genealogy - Georgia
- Southeast USA Genealogy
For people interested in genealogy research anywhere in the United States, especially in the Southeast (including the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Missouri, Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Ohio, Maryland, South Carolina, and North Carolina.) A mailing list with corresponding message board, related links, a CD Lookup request page, a free forwarding e-mail address, and a page where researchers can register their relevant surnames.
- StateGenSites - U.S. Genealogy State by State - Georgia
- Surname Navigator USA
A one window, megasearch engine for surnames. Can simultaneously search various databases using only one input screen. Includes CGI (LDS Mormons) USA, Ancestral File (LDS Mormons) USA, Geneanet USA, Google, genealogy USA, Google News Genealogy USA, Rootsweb message board USA, Ancestry.com, Email Finder USA, White Pages USA.
- USGenWeb - GAGenWeb Project
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 Websites at RootsWeb
- WorldVitalRecords.com - Georgia in Databases or Georgia in Titles
An inexpensive, growing set of pay-for-use databases. Including vital records, and an extensive collection of newspapers.
- 50states.com - Georgia State Information Resource
A list of general information for each state, including a list of colleges, state symbols, links to maps, newspapers, and other miscellaneous state information.
- Court Web Sites - Georgia
Links to the web sites of various levels of judicial courts in the state.
- FindLaw: Georgia: Courts
Links to the web sites of various levels of judicial courts in the state.
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Georgia Online Network - GO ~ State of Georgia
- Historical Information About Georgia Governors
- NACo - About Counties - Georgia
From the National Association of Counties. Includes links to county courthouse addresses and telephone numbers as well as links to official county government web sites.
- North Georgia
- Official City Web Sites for the State of Georgia
- Public Records Online
Links to available state & county Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices. Online public records may include copies of deeds, parcel maps, GIS maps, tax data, ownership information and indexes. Some Recorders' offices have marriage and birth records available online.
- USA CityLink Project - Georgia
- Yahoo! Get Local...Georgia Counties and Regions or Cities
Maps, yellow pages, white pages, newspapers and other local information.
- A Bitter Peace - The Reconstruction of Georgia
- Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy
- Destruction of Courthouses in Georgia
- GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Georgia
GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.
- Georgia Before Oglethorpe
A resource guide to Georgia's early colonial period, 1521-1733.
- Georgia Historic Markers
Except on interstate highways, it is difficult to drive on Georgia streets and highways for any length of time without seeing one or more historical markers. Almost 2,600 of these icons of local history cover the state, a total only exceeded by Texas (11,000) and New York (2,800).
- Georgia History Timeline
- Gullah Dialect and Sea Island Culture
Gullah is a creole form of English, indigenous to the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.
- North Georgia History
- This Day in Georgia History
- Work Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Georgia
- Yahoo!...History...Georgia
- Atlanta History Center
- Archdiocese of Atlanta - Archives and History
The Archives of the Archdiocese of Atlanta is the repository for official records of the archdiocese which are to be retained permanently for historical or legal purposes or because they are vital records. Included are records of administration and of curial, parochial, institutional, and confraternity groups in existence currently as well as those which have ceased to exist or which may be created in the future.
- Atlanta Area Family History Centers
- Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
- Atlanta History Center
- Chatham, Effingham, Liberty Regional Library
- Cherokee Regional Library, LaFayette, Georgia
- Digital Library of Georgia
Gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, audio, video and other materials.
- East Central Georgia Regional Library ~ Augusta
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library ~ Moultrie
- Family History Library Catalog
From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other localities by place name.
- FamilySearch - Family History Centers in Georgia
A list of local LDS Family History Centers along with addresses and hours of operation.
- Georgia Archival Repositories
- Georgia Baptist History Depository
From Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. Mercer University has collected and preserved Baptist history materials with conscious intent since the late 1870s, following the University's move from Penfield to Macon. At a number of points during the ensuing years, the Georgia Baptist Convention has named the University as the official depository of state Baptist records.
- Georgia Family History Centers
A list of addresses, phone numbers and hours of operation from the Genealogy Home Page.
- Georgia Office of Public Library Services
- Georgia Secretary of State | Archives and History Division
- Historical Organizations and Resources Directory
- How May We Help You?
- What Do We Have?
- Census Records
- A General Description of our Collections
- Georgia Militia Districts
- Georgia Tax Records FAQs
- Online Indexes
- Georgia Archives GIL (Online Catalog)
- Governors Incoming Correspondence
Database of the calendars of incoming correspondence of Governors James Milton Smith (1872-1877), Alfred H. Colquitt (1877-1882), Joseph E. Brown (1909-1911, 1912-1913), John M. Slaton (1911-1912, 1913-1915), Nat E. Harris (1915-1917), and Hugh M. Dorsey (1917-1921).
- Online Descriptive Inventories
1732-2001. The database includes the name of the series, the agency which created the series, the date span of the records, and the Record Group-Subgroup-Series number. Approximately 1,700 database records include links to inventories of the records in the series.
- Revolutionary War Veterans' Land Lottery Records
1820-1832.
- Online Records
- Vital Records
- Jimmy Carter Library
- The John E. Ladson, Jr. Genealogical Library ~ Vidalia, Georgia
A branch of the Vidalia-Toombs County Library, Ohoopee Regional Library System. Collection specializes in materials on Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, New England, the Mid-Atlantic States, and Virginia. The collection was established by the late John E. (Jack) Ladson, Jr.
- LIBCAT: US - Georgia
A directory of library resources on the Internet.
- LibDex - The Library Index - Georgia
A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).
- Newberry Library | Bibliography of African American History - Georgia
- PublicLibraries.com - Georgia
- Repositories of Primary Sources: Georgia
A list of links to online resources from the Univ. of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives.
- Troup County Archives ~ LaGrange
- United Methodist Church - General Commission on Archives & History - Directory for Local and Regional United Methodist Archives
List of annual conference archive contacts for the state. For local Methodist church records, your best resource is the annual conference archives. The boundaries of the annual conference do not necessarily coincide with state boundaries, and some states may have several conferences within their borders.
- University of Georgia Libraries ~ Athens, Georgia
Mailing lists are interactive e-mail forums that are free for you to subscribe to and participate in. Click on the links below and be sure to follow the instructions provided exactly as shown in order to subscribe to the mailing list of your choice. Be sure to keep a copy of the welcome message that you receive. This message will contain details about the mailing list, the person who runs the list and instructions you will need in order to participate in the list, unsubscribe from the list, etc.
- 2ND-GEORGIA-CAVALRY Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the 2nd Georgia Cavalry, Confederate States of America. Archives: browse or search.
- ANDERSONVILLE Mailing List
For the descendants and interested historians of Andersonville, the American Civil War's most notorious prison camp, to swap knowledge and research the lives of Union prisoners before, during, and after their time in Andersonville. Archives: browse or search.
- Appalachianfamily Mailing List
Appalachian Mountain Families including families from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.
- DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS-L Mailing List
Alabama, Florida, Georgia & Mississippi.
- GA-AfricaAmer Mailing List
For anyone researching their African-American ancestry in Georgia. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-AfriGeneas Mailing List
To coordinate, network and strengthen the efforts of African ancestored family researchers within Georgia.
- GA-CEMETERIES Mailing List
For anyone interested in locating and preserving historical information about Georgia cemeteries. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION Mailing List
For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the preservation of historic Georgia cemeteries. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-CENSUS Mailing List
For the volunteers who are engaged in transcribing Georgia census records in support of the USGenWeb Census Project to discuss the status of the project.
- GA-CENSUS-LOOKUP Mailing List
For anyone desiring a check of Georgia census records for their ancestors. Requests should be as specific as possible and include county name, specific family of interest, and year whenever possible. Archives: browse or search.
- GACENTRAL Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in Central Georgia. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-CentralPioneers Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the people who needed a passport to travel through central Georgia during the period 1785-1939. Counties covered by the list are Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Lanier, Meriwether, Pike, and Spalding. Archives: browse or search.
- GADATA Mailing List
For anyone who wants to submit data files to the Georgia USGenWeb archives or discuss the development and use of these archives. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-FGS Mailing List
For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the family group sheets, related success stories, and new connections found or made through the Georgia Family Group Sheet website . Archives: browse or search.
- GA-FREEDMEN Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in Freedmen in Georgia from all ethnic backgrounds (e.g., African, Native American, Caucasian). Archives: browse or search.
- GA-GHOSTTOWNS Mailing List
For . Archives: browse or search.
- GA-NATIVEAMERICANS Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in Native Americans in Georgia. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-OBITS Mailing List
For individuals and volunteers to request or submit obituary information - either modern or historic - for Georgia. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-OLD-NEWS Mailing List
For the submission of abstracts, extracts and links from Georgia newspapers published prior to 1931. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-ROLLCALL Mailing List
For any and all researchers of Georgia kin to post roll calls - surnames they are researching and associated information such as locations and timeframes. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-ROOTS Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in Georgia. Archives: browse or search.
- GA-VETERANS Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in those who signed up for military service in Georgia and/or participated in military operations in Georgia during the Indian Wars, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I. Archives: browse or search.
- GEORGIA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the State of Georgia. Archives: browse or search.
- Melungeon Mailing List
For people conducting Melungeon and/or Appalachian research including Native American, Portuguese, Turkish, Black Dutch, and other unverifiable mixed statements of ancestry or unexplained rumors, with ancestors in TN, KY, VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, WV, and possibly other places. Archives: browse or search.
- NFLASGA Mailing List
For anyone who is researching families in and from North Florida and South Georgia. Archives: browse or search.
- NORTHEAST-GEORGIA-CIVIL-WAR-ROUNDTABLE Mailing List
For members of the Northeast Georgia Civil War Rountable, an informal group of Civil War bluffs representing both Union and Confederate viewpoints. Archives: browse or search.
- NWGA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in Northwest Georgia which was originally Cherokee Nation East. Archives: browse or search.
- RAN-CLAY Mailing List
For anyone who has an interest in genealogy related to the east-central Alabama counties of Autauga, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Elmore, Etowah, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Randolph, Russell, St.Clair, Shelby, Talladega and Tallapoosa, and the Georgia border counties, all of which was once Indian territory and subject to boundary changes. Archives: browse or search.
- SEGAKIN Mailing List
For . Archives: browse or search.
- SOUTHEAST-PIONEERS Mailing List
For genealogical interests in the pioneers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia & Alabama. Archives: browse or search.
- USCW-CHICKAMAUGA Mailing List
For anyone with a genealogical interest in those who fought at Chickamauga during the U.S. Civil War. Archives: browse or search.
- 1895 U.S. Atlas - Georgia
Scanned images of county and state maps, index of towns.
- American Memory Panoramic Maps 1847-1929 - Georgia
From the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
- American Memory Railroad Maps 1828-1900 - Georgia
From the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
- Circa 1930 City Directories Available at NARA - Georgia
Listing of microfilmed city directories available at the National Archives.
- Color Landform Atlas: Georgia
Including a map of counties and a map for 1895.
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
From the USGS. Provides cemetery location information, as well as other physical features within a county and state.
- Georgia Maps
Some Georgia Maps: Land Lot, Land District, Historical State Maps, etc.
- Ghost Counties - Your Guide To America's Dead, Forgotten Counties
Remembering those counties across America that have been disbanded or discontinued.
- Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
- Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties
- Machine Cancel Publications by Richard E. Small
Listings of historic post office locations for sale for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Virginia, West Virginia, the terrritory of Puerto Rico, & more.
- Map of Georgia Counties
- MapQuest: World Atlas: Georgia
- The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Georgia Maps
From the University of Texas at Austin.
- Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, University of Georgia
- RootsWeb Town Search - TownCo
Enter the name of a U.S. town to learn the name of the county where that town is located.
- U.S. Census Bureau - State and County QuickFacts - Georgia County Selection Map
- U.S. City Directories on Microfilm in the Microform Reading Room - Georgia
At the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- USGenWeb Archives, United States Digital Map Library
- Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS - Georgia
Search the USGS Geographic Names Database. You can limit the search to a specific county in this state and search for any of the following features: airport arch area arroyo bar basin bay beach bench bend bridge building canal cape cemetery channel church cliff crater crossing dam falls flat forest gap geyser glacier gut harbor hospital island isthmus lake lava levee locale mine oilfield other park pillar plain ppl range rapids reserve reservoir ridge school sea slope spring stream summit swamp tower trail tunnel valley well woods.
- 4th Georgia (Clinch's) Cavalry
- 7th Georgia Cavalry
- 8th Georgia Infantry Webpage
- 10th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry
- 14th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry
- 15th Georgia Infantry Regiment
- The 17th Georgia Infantry Regiment
A regimental history. Infantry is being written and the website is to locate as many descendants as possible for biography submissions, along with photos and interesting stories. The counties enlisting men into this unit were: Decatur, Doughtery, Harris, Mitchell, Muscogee, Schley, Stewart, Terrell and Webster.
- The 24th Georgia Regiment, Company H
- 35th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 42nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Documents both the original 42nd Georgia Regiment and the recreated modern day reenacting regiment.
- 43rd Georgia Infantry Regiment Volunteer
History site for the 43rd Georgia Civil War Regiment.
- 45th Georgia Volunteers
- 49th Georgia Volunteer Infantry
- 49th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 50th Georgia Volunteer Infantry
- The 52nd Georgia Regiment
- 61st Georgia Volunteer Infantry
- 63rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry
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 Ancestry.com
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Searching Ancestry's databases is free, and then viewing the final results in the genealogical datasets is available by paid subscription. A search serves up a "Ranked Search Result" based on your query. The displayed list of results indicates which of the many databases has a possible match, as well as suggestions to help you refine your search. Following the links for the search hits will result in one of two things: if you are already a paid subscriber you will see the database matches right away; if you are not yet a subscriber you are pointed to a "landing page" that gives you options to become a paid subscriber to one of Ancestry's membership packages.
- Search Military Records
- Roster of Revoloutionary Soldiers in Georgia Vol. I , Vol. II , Vol. III
Original source: McCall, Mrs. Howard H. Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
- WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 - Georgia
Original source: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls..
- Bartow Artillery Co A, 22nd Ga. Heavy Artillery CSA
A Muster Roll of "Bartow Artillery" Co. A, 22nd Georgia Heavy Artillery CSA and some descendants.
- Battle of Brown's Mill
Civil War battle fought July 30-31, 1864 at Newnan, Georgia.
- The Battle of Pickett's Mill, Georgia
This examines the role of the 89th Illinois Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Pickett's Mill, Georgia (May 27th, 1864).
- Battle of Resaca, GA, May 14-15, 1864
- The Blue and Gray Trail - The Civil War in North Georgia and Chattanooga
- The Civil War Archive - Union Regiments - Georgia
- Civil War Battle Summaries by State - Georgia
- The Civil War in Georgia
- Civil War Rosters - Georgia
List of links to web sites with rosters for each state.
- Colquitt's Brigade
Sixth Georgia Infantry.
- Company G, 8th Georgia Regiment, C.S.A.
History of Company G, 8th Georgia Regiment, C.S.A. ("The Pulaski Volunteers"), by David Green Fleming," originally published in the summer of 1879.
- Company K, 11th Georgia Regiment, Infantry ~~~ Houston Volunteers
- Francis Marion Gay, Co. F 65th Reg. Georgia Infantry
Including the Muster Roll for Co. F, 65th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry Army of Tennessee, C.S.A.
- First Georgia Regulars
- Footnote.com - Confederate Soldiers - GA
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia, NARA. Footnote is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. Some areas of Footnote are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.
- Footnote.com - Southern Claims Commission
In 1871, the US government established the Southern Claims Commission to address southerners' petitions for compensation of supplies, livestock, and other items taken by the Union troops during the Civil War. More than 20,000 claims were filed. These testimonial files include first-person accounts of how civilians survived the war, detailed circumstances regarding loss of property, and accounts of each family's history and loyalty to the Union cause. Footnote is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. Some areas of Footnote are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.
- The Ford Boys In The Flower Of Lee's Army - A History of the 18th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- Georgia Cherokee Legion State Guard
- Georgia Civil War Pension Records
A community service project to digitize the microfilm associated with the pension applications of Georgia's Confederate soldiers and their widows.
- Georgia Confederate Units
Confederate military units from the State of Georgia including the names of commanding officers, company nicknames, counties of organization, and unit evolution. Also has a comprehensive list of microfilms at the Georgia Archives containing Confederate information.
- Georgia Loyalists
A list of 225 Georgia Loyalists published in a 1783 issue of the Georgia Gazette.
- Georgia 15th Infantry Regiment
- Georgia 49th Infantry Regiment
- Georgia Military Records
- Georgia Units in the Civil War
- Harrison's Brigade
- History of the 3rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry
- History of the Georgia Militia 1783-1861
Site offering for sale the definitive edition on the history of the antebellum Georgia militia. Includes full table of contents and indexes for all four volumes.
- Korean Conflict State-Level Casualty Lists - Georgia
From the National Archives and Records Administration, Center for Electronic Records.
- Nineteenth Georgia Infantry
- Ninth Georgia Infantry, C.S.A.
Brief history, with photos, a complete roster, news articles and personal accounts of the men of this Confederate Georgia Regiment.
- Northeast Georgia Civil War Round Table
- Sixth Georgia Infantry
- Sixty-fourth Georgia Infantry Regiment
- Thirty-second Georgia Infantry
- Troup Artillery
History and roster of the Troup Artillery.
- Twenty-eighth Battalion, Georgia Siege Artillery
- Twenty-eighth Georgia Infantry
- The Twenty-second Georgia Infantry
- Twenty-seventh Georgia Infantry
- Twenty-third Georgia Infantry
- Vietnam Conflict State-Level Casualty Lists - Georgia
From the National Archives and Records Administration, Center for Electronic Records.
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Georgia
- ABYZ News Links - Georgia - Newspapers and News Sources
- Ancestry.com
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Searching Ancestry's databases is free, and then viewing the final results in the genealogical datasets is available by paid subscription. A search serves up a "Ranked Search Result" based on your query. The displayed list of results indicates which of the many databases has a possible match, as well as suggestions to help you refine your search. Following the links for the search hits will result in one of two things: if you are already a paid subscriber you will see the database matches right away; if you are not yet a subscriber you are pointed to a "landing page" that gives you options to become a paid subscriber to one of Ancestry's membership packages.
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- The Augusta Chronicle Online
"The South's Oldest Newspaper" serving Georgia and South Carolina.
- Footnote.com - Georgia Newspapers
The Atlanta Constitution, Clinch County News, Hogansville Home News, Meriwether Vindicator, Monroe County Reporter, Talbotton New Era. Footnote is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. Some areas of Footnote are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.
- The Georgia Newspaper Project
- Georgia Newspaper Project
- GenealogyBank.com - Historical Newspapers - Georgia
GenealogyBank's collection includes modern obituaries, historical newspapers, books, pamphlets, military records, and government documents. The 2,400+ historical newspapers include letters, speeches, opinion pieces, advertisements, hometown news, photographs, illustrations and more. Searchable database results shown, images available with fee-based subscription .
- Home Town News - Georgia
Directory of daily and weekly newspapers in the United States.
- NewsDirectory.com: Newspapers: Georgia
- NewsLink | Newspapers | U.S. | Georgia
- Newspaper Abstracts - Finding Our Ancestors in the News! - Georgia
- NewspaperLinks.com - Georgia
- TheOldenTimes.com: Old Georgia News
Historic newspapers online: births, deaths & marriages, notices, old news, legal notices, recipes & more, all scanned from original issues of 18th-20th century newspapers. Index of names, site search.
- OnlineNewspapers.com - Newspaper & Newspapers Online Directory: Georgia
- ThePaperboy.com Newspaper Directory - Georgia Newspapers
- The United States Newspaper Program
Cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.
- US Newspaper Links - Georgia Newspapers
- World-newspapers.com - Georgia Newspapers
- Yahoo!...Newspapers...Georgia
Adoptions, biographies, ethnic groups, famous people, immigrants, some family groups, etc.
- African American Genealogy Resources: States/Georgia
From Christine's Genealogy Website.
- African American Resources
From the Georgia Archives.
- AfriGeneas | African Ancestry in Georgia
- GEDCOM Index .com - Georgia
Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.
- Georgia African American
Links to information on African Americans in Georgia, USA. Includes military, cemetary, census links, biographies and more.
- Georgia Blacksheep Ancestors
Directory of links for prison and convict records, court records, executions, famous outlaws, criminals & bandits.
- Georgia Families
Information about the MARLOW family of northeast Georgia, but also contains burial and death records of non-related families.
- The Salzburgers
Early settlers in Georgia.
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
Contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.
- Tribes and Villages of Georgia
- West Georgia Unidentified Photos
20 unidentified photos believed to be those of relatives of James Morgan RICHARDSON and his wife, Nancy Catherine McBURNETT, probably taken in Haralson and Polk Counties or surrounding localities. James Morgan "Jim" RICHARDSON was born 1883, possibly in Floyd County, Georgia, and died in 1953. Nancy Catherine "Kate" McBURNETT was born 1883 in Carroll County, Georgia, and died in 1972 in Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Stephen Joshua McBURNETT (1858-1927) and Millie Elizabeth WINKLES (1851-1941).
- WPA Life Histories from Georgia
Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940, Library of Congress.
Magazines, journals, quarterlies, newsletters, pamplets, leaflets
Photos, postcards, yearbooks, school memorabilia, and other ephemera of life
- Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive - Georgia
Searchable database containing images of thousands of identified and mystery 19th & 20th century photos for genealogy enthusiasts looking for long-lost family. Search vintage school annuals, faculty & students,images & names. Upload your own vintage yearbooks so others can discover their ancestral images.
- FamilyOldPhotos.com - Georgia
Old, antique, or vintage photos. User submitted with family history and details.
- Old-Yearbooks.com - Georgia
Old high school & college yearbooks, graduation programs, reunion booklets, class rolls, alumni lists, school photos & memorabilia.
Links to professional researchers found on Cyndi's List are included as a courtesy. Unless otherwise stated, the existence of these links on Cyndi's List does not imply endorsement of the services or products provided by those professional researchers. See also: Disclaimers
- Accelerated Genealogy Research - Professional Genealogists - Georgia
Our directory lists professional genealogists by education, experience, credentials, research specialty, international or U.S. region, and billing rate to help you find the researcher best qualified to find your ancestor.
- Barbara Smallwood Stock -- Genealogical Research in Georgia
- Board for Certification of Genealogists - Roster of Those Certified - Residing in Georgia or Specializing in Georgia
- Carpenter Genealogical Services ~ Salt Lake City, Utah
A professional genealogical research group in Salt Lake City specializing in the United States and Western Europe. Our focus is Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Colonial Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Wyoming, Nebraska and African American/Slavery research and slavery in the South. Western European limited to Germany, Switzerland, France, and the Scandanavian countries. Families of note: WINGET, HATHAWAY, AXTELL, CLUTTER, DOUD, LYTLE, BLEHSCHMIDT, EHMAN, HAGGSTROM.
- Erwin Genealogy - Erwin Family History Service
Located in Southern California, specializing in Southern research including Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia.
- Family History Research in the Southeastern United States
Southeastern Roots. Professional genealogical research for clients, as well as lectures and workshops relative to the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
- Free GEDCOM Matching Service (Georgia-Lina Historical Society)
Send GEDCOM or Tiny Tafel by e-mail.
- Gen Detective
Research for hire in the Tennessee Valley area.
- Genealogy Professional Alabama Georgia Kentucky Carolinas Virginia: Ted Lane Genealogist
More than 40 years experience. Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, and others.
- genealogyPro - Professional Genealogists for Eastern and Southern United States
Including the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
- GenSearch - United States Genealogy Research
Tennessee and Georgia all counties, lookups and hourly research.
- Georgia Genealogical Society - Independent Researchers for Hire
- Georgia Research Consortium
Abstracts and indexes to some Georgia county and state records. Professional research services.
- Heritage Hunters of Georgia: Professional Genealogy and Family History Researchers
Specializing in historical and genealogical research in North Georgia.
- My House History: Property History Research in Atlanta, Georgia
Professional property history research in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Houston County Georgia Genealogical Research & Publications
Probate records, cemetery records, research outlines, probate court index, superior court index. Family histories include MILLS, WILSON, RUSLAND, RUSSELL, PARKER, HITCHENS, JARMAN, DICKERSON, SMACK, PEDDY.
- Ohio Family Research - Yolanda Campbell Lifter
Professional genealogist specializing in Ohio research.
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Georgia
A list of volunteers who are willing to help you with your research in this locality.
- SouthEastern Genealogical Research
Genealogical document search and retrieval service. Specializing in genealogy in the states of: Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas.
- Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.
- 1805 Georgia Land Lottery
Two books by Paul K. Graham. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws; 1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees.
- 1850 Census Records
These books are transcribed from the 1850 Census Records and have indexes for some of the counties in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas.
- Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Georgia
The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
- AncestorSpy - CDs and Microfiche for Georgia
- Archive CD Books USA
Digital reproductions (or e-books) of old books, maps, and other rare genealogical material.
- Barbara Green's Used Genealogy Books - Georgia
- Barnette's Family Tree Books - Georgia
- Books We Own - Georgia
Find a book from which you would like a lookup and click on the submitter's code at the end of the entry. Once you find the contact information for the submitter, write them a polite request for a lookup. Be sure to follow the Tips for making a request . See also the Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright page and please also consider reading through: How to Contribute to Books We Own.
- Boyd Publishing Company - Georgia
See their home page for details on placing an order.
- The Civil War in Georgia
CD-ROM publications for sale.
- Early Marriage Records in Georgia
Books for sale on pre-1900 marriage records.
- eBay Listings: Search for Georgia Genealogy
Online auction service for buying & selling.
- Genealogical.com - Georgia
The online store of Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. & Clearfield Company.
- Georgia Genealogy Books
Georgia genealogy books by individual authors and various genealogical organizations.
- Heritage Books: Georgia
- Higginson Book Company - Georgia
- Houston County Georgia Genealogical Research & Publications
Probate records, cemetery records, research outlines, probate court index, superior court index. Family histories include MILLS, WILSON, RUSLAND, RUSSELL, PARKER, HITCHENS, JARMAN, DICKERSON, SMACK, PEDDY.
- J & W Enterprises
One stop book source on the Internet, specializing in southern states source material.
- Michal M. Farmer
Georgia deed books, family histories. DOWNS, HARDEMAN, MAPP, MEADOWS, THOMPSON.
- Mountain Press - Georgia
Free Surname Search for many Georgia genealogy books. Information available for many counties on wills, marriages, deaths, biographies, military as well as many maps.
- Picton Press - Georgia
- Pioneer Publishing Company
Books for sale on Alabama, Georgia, Indian, Mississippi, Tennessee & Texas.
- Queen of the Okefenokee
Okefenokee Press - 350 pages of searchable information on the history and genealogy of the Okefenokee Region of southern Georgia. Surnames: SMITH, STONE, MIZELL, MCQUEEN, WAINWRIGHT, TODD.
- Quintin Publications | Georgia
- SK Publications Census CDs and Books - Georgia
- Warren County Books for Sale
Two books for sale: Cemeteries & Genealogy Warren County, Georgia and Immediate Vicinity 1792-1987 and Warren County, Georgia 1793-1900 Genealogy II.
- Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Georgia
- Georgia in the Civil War Message Board
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 RootsWeb Surname List - RSL Georgia
The RSL and this form concept & design are courtesy of Karen Isaacson
- SE USA Genealogy Forum on About.com
This forum is primarily for genealogy discussion/research involving the Southeast USA states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia). Post your southern surnames, air your views on issues, ask questions, share research tips or photos, tell us about your personal genealogy site and join in our fun games and contests.
The sites found in this category vary in content. Some sites have extractions or transcriptions of actual records. Other sites have helpful lists, articles, tips or guidelines. In a few cases there are scanned images of the original source documents themselves, with more of these types of records coming online each day. Keep in mind that extractions & transcriptions may have errors or may be missing certain portions of the original source material. Always refer to the original source material whenever possible and only use extractions & transcriptions as a starting point to help guide you in your research.
- African American Cemeteries Online - Georgia
- Ancestry.com - 30,638 Burials in Georgia
Original source: Austin, Jeannette Holland. 30,638 Burials in Georgia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995.
- Ancestry.com - North-Central Georgia Cemeteries
Original source: Grizzle, R. L., and S. R. Criner. Select Georgia Cemeteries.
- Cemetery Junction: Georgia Cemeteries
A list of links and addresses for cemeteries in the state.
- Cemetery Surveys, Inc.
A free website for the Western NC/North GA/Eastern TN/Western SC area, covering approximately 400 cemeteries, complete with photos of each stone and panoramas of each cemetery surveyed.
- ePodunk - Cemeteries
Listing of cemeteries in the state.
- Find-A-Grave by Location: Georgia
Graves of noteworthy people.
- FSN Funeral Homes - Georgia
- Funeral Services Providers - Georgia
A directory of funeral service providers including funeral homes and cemeteries.
- HOLLAND Family Cemetery Inscriptions
HOLLAND family cemeteries in North Carolina and Georgia.
- I Dream of Genealogy - Georgia Cemeteries
- iMortuary.com - Cemetery Directory - Georgia Cemeteries
- iMortuary.com - Funeral Home Directory - Georgia Funeral Homes
- Interment.net: Georgia Cemeteries
Online archive of cemetery transcriptions, with dates and names of people interred in local cemeteries. Also links to related materials online.
- The Political Graveyard - Cemeteries in Georgia
- Preplanning Network - Funeral Home and Cemetery Directory - Georgia
- Saving Graves - Georgia
- USA Funeral Homes Online Directory - Georgia
- US Funerals Online - Georgia
US Funeral Guide & Comprehensive Funeral Homes Directory.
- USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - Georgia
- AccessGenealogy - Georgia Census Records
Census links for online census research.
- African American Census Schedules Online | Georgia
- Ancestry.com - Georgia Census, 1790-1890
Searchable database available by subscription.
- Ancestry.com - U.S. Federal Censuses
Browse by census year, state, county, township. Census images available with fee-based subscription:
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- Ancestry.com
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Searching Ancestry's databases is free, and then viewing the final results in the genealogical datasets is available by paid subscription. A search serves up a "Ranked Search Result" based on your query. The displayed list of results indicates which of the many databases has a possible match, as well as suggestions to help you refine your search. Following the links for the search hits will result in one of two things: if you are already a paid subscriber you will see the database matches right away; if you are not yet a subscriber you are pointed to a "landing page" that gives you options to become a paid subscriber to one of Ancestry's membership packages.
- Census Online - Links to Online Census Data - Georgia
- HeritageQuest - US Federal Census Schedules Available on Microfilm
Digitized images of the complete US Census from 1790 to 1930 for sale on microfilm.
Census Schedules for Georgia:
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- NARA | US National Archives & Records Administration
- USGenWeb Archives
- Ancestry.com - Georgia Land Lottery, 1827
Searchable database available by subscription.
- Ancestry.com
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Searching Ancestry's databases is free, and then viewing the final results in the genealogical datasets is available by paid subscription. A search serves up a "Ranked Search Result" based on your query. The displayed list of results indicates which of the many databases has a possible match, as well as suggestions to help you refine your search. Following the links for the search hits will result in one of two things: if you are already a paid subscriber you will see the database matches right away; if you are not yet a subscriber you are pointed to a "landing page" that gives you options to become a paid subscriber to one of Ancestry's membership packages.
- Before the Needles - Georgia
A detailed listing of executions that occurred under civil authority in Georgia. Listing includes (when known) the convict's name, age, race, sex, occupation, crime, date of execution, method of execution and whether it was a single or multiple execution.
- Genealogy.com - County Resources
- Freedmen's Bureau Records - Georgia
- GDAH Land Records
Georgia Department of Archives and History.
- Genealogy Quest: Georgia Naturalizations Searchable Database
Contains the names and miltary units of soldiers who were admitted to become citizens of the United States of America in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia on 12 June 1918.
- Georgia Bible Records
Index of DAR Bible records.
- Georgia Confederate Pension Applications - State of Georgia Department of Archives & History
"The purpose of this community service project is to digitize the microfilm associated with the pension applications of Georgia's Confederate soldiers and their widows."
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Georgia Land Lotteries
Discusses land lotteries in 1805, 1807, 1820, 1821, 1827, 1832.
- Georgia State Asylum, 1850
- NARA | US National Archives & Records Administration
- Public Records Online
Contact information for Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices.
- Records Room: Georgia Counties, United States
- USGenWeb Archives
- Ancestors at Rest - Death Records for Georgia
Coffin plates, funeral cards, death cards, wills, memorial cards, cemeteries, vital stats, obituaries, church records, family bibles, cenotaphs and tombstone inscriptions.
- Ancestry.com - Georgia Marriages to 1850
Searchable database available by subscription.
- Ancestry.com
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Searching Ancestry's databases is free, and then viewing the final results in the genealogical datasets is available by paid subscription. A search serves up a "Ranked Search Result" based on your query. The displayed list of results indicates which of the many databases has a possible match, as well as suggestions to help you refine your search. Following the links for the search hits will result in one of two things: if you are already a paid subscriber you will see the database matches right away; if you are not yet a subscriber you are pointed to a "landing page" that gives you options to become a paid subscriber to one of Ancestry's membership packages.
- Family Search Record Search
Millions of indexed records and images of records. Join volunteers around the world who are helping to make more free records available online through FamilySearch Indexing.
- Georgia Department of Public Health - Vital Records
Provides contact information, fees, and printable forms for obtaining vital records from Georgia.
- Georgia Wedding Bells
Post marriages that took place prior to 1900.
- MyVitalRec.com - Georgia Vital Records
Information for ordering by mail or online: birth, death, marriage or divorce.
- VitalChek Network - Georgia
- vitalrec.com - Vital Records Information - Georgia
Resources to help you obtain a birth certificate, death record, marriage license and more by mail or online.
- Vital Records US - Georgia Vital Records
Information and guidelines on acquiring vital records information in the United States. Includes state and county contact and pricing information.
- VitalSearch - Georgia (USA): Georgia State Vital Records
Searchable online indexes.
- Where to Write for Vital Records - Georgia
From the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
- Button Gwinnett Society, National Society of the Children of the American Revolution
- Central Georgia Genealogical Society
Covers 27 central Georgia counties including: Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Johnson, Jones, Lamar, Laurens, Macon, Monroe, Montgomery, Peach, Pike, Pulaski, Taylor, Telfair, Treutlen, Twiggs, Upson, Washington, Wheeler, Wilcox and Wilkinson.
- Delta Genealogical Society
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, history and genealogy for tri-state area.
- East Georgia Genealogical Society ~ Winder
Serving these counties: Banks, Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Hart, Jackson, Jasper, Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Rockdale, Stephens, Taliaferro, Walton, Warren and Wilkes.
- Georgia Genealogical Society
- The Georgia Historical Society
- The Georgia Salzburger Society
- Georgia Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America
- Georgia State Society Daughters of the American Colonists
- Georgia State Society Daughters of the American Revolution
- The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Georgia
- Historical Organizations and Resources in Georgia
- Huguenot Society of Georgia
A Member of the National Huguenot Society. Founded on June 26, 1971, by Mrs. William Lawton Brannen at the Willow Lake Country Club in Metter, Georgia.
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Georgia
Jurisdictions for the IOOF, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs.
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia
- Northwest Georgia Historical & Genealogical Society ~ Rome
Covering these counties: Bartow/Cass, Carroll, Catoosa, Cherokee, Cobb, Dade, Dawson, Douglas, Fannin, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gordon, Hall, Habersham, Haralson, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Rabun, Towns, Union, Walker, White, Whitfield.
- Saving Southern Cemeteries
Organization dedicated to encouraging transcriptions, preserving cemeteries in the South, primarily Georgia, and to educating the public on the dangers facing cemeteries.
- Society of Georgia Archivists
- Society Hill: Georgia Genealogy
A list of addresses for genealogical and historical societies in the state.
- Southwest Georgia Genealogical Society ~ Albany
For these counties: Baker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Crisp, Decatur, Dooly, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Irwin, Lee, Marion, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Seminole, Stewart, Sumter, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Turner, Webster, Wilcox, Worth.
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