Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library

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Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library

Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Contact Information E-mail:  mccls@mccls.org Address: Street address:  Moultrie-Colquitt County Library 204 5th Street, Southeast Moultrie, Georgia 31768 USA Mailing address:  Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library P.O. Box 2828 Moultrie, GA 31776 USA Telephone:  229-985-6540 Hours and Holidays:  8:30am-5:30pm Monday-Saturday. Closed major holidays. Map, Directions, and Public transportation Map:  Google map: Moultrie-Colquitt County Library Directions:  Directions to the Library Internet sites and databases: Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library clans and families, collections, databases, indexes, blogs, online resources, and veteran's history project. Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library brochure. Georgia Pines Catalog for 275 Georgia libraries including the Odom Genealogical Library. Arranged by keyword, author, title, subject, or series. Also available in WorldCat. Collection Description The Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library in the south wing of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection. Their collection is an archives for more than 130 Scottish clan organizations, houses many rare books including an original edition of Scottish Peerage, and the Emmett Lucas Collection about the southeastern United States, the Civil War and migration routes west. They have a good collection of newspapers. The Odom Genealogy Library is considered one of the three "crown jewels" of genealogy repositories in the Georgia public library system. Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a record at the Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library, a similar record may be available at one of the following. Overlapping Collections National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees. National Archives at Atlanta federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty-land, photos, passengers lists, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, and workshops. Federal Records Center, Ellenwood, GA., receives federal agency and court records of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Georgia Archives, Morrow, is the best place to start family history research in Georgia.</ref> Genealogies, county histories, newspapers, tax digests, private papers, church records, cemeteries, Bible records, municipal records, census, maps, land plats, photographs, Georgia Confederate service and pension records, colonial, headright & bounty land grants, land lottery, and Georgia county records. Similar Collections Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room book, map, microfilm and archival collection spans the southeastern USA and East Coast, with some New England, vertical files, surname files, and newspapers. Local history holdings include vertical files, surname files and newspapers. Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library, have the best set of family folders in Georgia. They also have Civil War records, DAR and Revolutionary War records, pension and bounty land records, immigration indexes, censuses, church records and histories. Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library, Homerville, their genealogical collection covers the Southeast United States well,</ref> including 14,000 files on families from south Georgia and north Florida. Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library good collection of southern states family history material such as immigration records, marriages and deaths, Internet access, censuses, and state and county histories. Washington Memorial Library, Macon, one of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.  Emphasis on the 13 colonies, American Revolution, and Great Britain. Neighboring Collections Colquitt County Clerk of the Probate Court, Moultrie, county births, marriages, deaths, and probate records. A fire destroyed some records in 1881. Colquitt County Clerk of the Superior Court, Moultrie, divorce, court, and land records. Colquitt County Historical Society Repositories in surrounding counties:  Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift, and Worth. Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library, large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA. They have county histories, family histories, will indexes, deeds, military rosters, passenger lists, Atlanta city directories, Georgia censuses 1820-1930, local histories, and newspapers. Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center, extensive Georgia family and county histories, Sons of the American Revolution library, holdings for North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama genealogy. Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Atlanta, members, meetings, newsletter, surname queries, links. DeKalb History Center, Decatur, subject files, biographical files, cemetery index, maps, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, memoirs, yearbooks, and Atlanta City and suburban directories. Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, 4 million manuscripts, photos, papers, military, diaries, plantation records. They have almost as many genealogical sources as the Georgia Archives.</ref> Georgia Genealogical Society, Atlanta, events, meetings, membership, publications and index, and research tools, but no library. They provide advice, but do not conduct research for you. Georgia Salzburger Society, Rincon, histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories. Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia, Atlanta, family histories, immigration, East Europe, Georgia, North America. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths, parish records. University of Georgia Main Library, Athens, largest collection for early Georgia settlers. Also, they hold county histories, county records, family records, biographies and newspapers.</ref> Repositories in other surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. 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