Ladson Genealogical Library

United States Georgia Toombs Archives and Libraries Ladson Genealogical Library

Ladson Genealogical Library Contact Information E-mail:  Heritage Librarian Debra Fennell fennelld@ohoopeelibrary.org Address: 125 Church Street, Suite 104 Vidalia, GA 30474 Telephone:  912-537-8186 Hours:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9-1 and 2-6; Saturday 9-2; closed Wednesday and Sunday. Google map: Ladson Genealogical Library Internet sites and databases: Ladson Genealogical Library contact information, hours, history, holdings, and services. Georgia Pines Catalog online. Search by keyword, title, author, subject, or series. Also available in WorldCat. Collection Description This is primarily a book collection, and their genealogical sources cover the entire Atlantic seaboard. Further, their significant manuscript holdings include: Leonardo Andrea Collection of South Carolina Annie Laurie Hill's notes on the Halls, McKinney, Popes and Exums of Wilkes County, Georgia Pauline Young Collection files of Mrs. Eugene A. Stanley of Savannah, Georgia Mrs. Martha Ann de l'Etoile of Griffin, Georgia Kitty Ware Wade Collection of historic photographs early 20th century primary school records of Toombs and Montgomery counties in Georgia. Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a record at the Ladson Genealogical 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. 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 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. Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library, Moultrie, emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection. Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library, Homerville, their genealogical collection covers the Southeast United States well, 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. Neighboring Collections Toombs County Clerk of the Probate Court, Vidalia, births and deaths since 1919, marriages and probate records from 1867. Fires destroyed all records in 1856 and 1867. Toombs County Clerk of the Superior Court, Vidalia, divorce and court records since 1867, land records from 1868, voter lists from 1890, and newspapers since 1895. Fires destroyed all records in 1856 and 1867. Toombs County Coroner suspicious deaths. 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. 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. Repositories in other surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records. Many Georgia Archives  microfilms are also available at branch FamilySearch Centers  in local LDS churches, and described in their online FamilySearch Catalog. Dallas Public Central Library 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states, and online databases including Georgia and other Southern states. Sources