Digital Library of Georgia

Gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, audio, video and other materials.

Georgia Department of Archives and History

Georgia Genealogical Society

Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Public Library Service: The State Library of Georgia

Georgia Virtual Vault - Digital Treasures from the Georgia Archives

Documents in the Georgia Archives are scanned for many reasons. Most items are selected systematically as part of a long-term digitization plan: death certificates, wills, county maps or district plat maps, for instance, are selected and scanned as a group. In other cases the digitization is random and ad hoc: a patron orders a digital copy of a photograph, or documents are scanned before being placed on exhibit. Whether created systematically or ad hoc, all of these images are stored on the Archives’ servers and constitute a rich visual resource of Georgia history. The Virtual Vault was created to provide access to this wealth.