Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library

United States Georgia Clinch Archives and Libraries Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library

Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library Contact Information E-mail:  huxford.spearlibrary@windstream.net Address: Street address: 20 S. College St. Mailing address: P.O. Box 595 Homerville, GA 31634 Telephone:  912-487-2310 Hours and holidays:  Thursday through Friday 9-12, and 1-5;  holiday closures: New Years, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, Christmas Eve and Christmas. Google map: Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library Internet sites and databases: Huxford Genealogical Society, Inc. contact info, history, announcements, publications, meetings, church minutes, and family histories. Collection Description Their genealogical collection covers the southeast United States well. Founded with the research notes from Judge Folks Huxford that led to the publication of Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia. Also includes 26,000 books, 4,000 microfilms and microfiche, 14,000 files on families from south Georgia and north Florida, family histories, immigration records, state books, lineage society information, self-help books, and genealogical periodicals. This is one of the largest privately owned genealogical libraries in the United States. Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a record at the Huxford-Spear 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. 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 Clinch County Clerk of the Probate Court, Homerville, births and deaths since 1919, marriages and probate records from 1867. Fires destroyed all records in 1856 and 1867. Clinch County Clerk of the Superior Court, Homerville, 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. Clinch County Public Library Clinch County Coroner suspicious deaths. Repositories in surrounding counties  in Georgia:  Atkinson, Echols, Lanier, Ware, in Florida:  Baker, and Columbia. 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