Washington Memorial Library

United States Georgia Bibb Archives and Libraries Washington Memorial Library

Washington Memorial Library Contact Information E-mail:  mgrlgh@bibblib.org Address: Washington Memorial Library  a Middle Georgia Regional Library Genealogical and Historical Room 1180 Washington Avenue Macon, GA 31201-1790 Telephone:  Genealogical and Historical Room 478-744-0821 Hours and holidays:  Monday 9am – 9pm, and Tuesday–Saturday 9am – 6pm.  Holiday closings. Map, and public transportation: Google map:  Washington Memorial Library Public transportation:  Macon-Bibb County Transit Authority (MTA) has two bus routes that stop within two blocks of the Washington Memorial Library. See Route 1 - Vineville/Zebulon Rd., and Route 2 — Belleville/Log Cabin/Zebulon Rd. The Terminal Station, where most MTA buses stop, is a 15 minute walk (less than a mile) from the Washington Memorial Library. Internet sites and databases: Genealogical & Historical Room history (of the room), genealogy inquiries, e-mail, and submit inquiry. Georgia Pines Catalog online. Search by keyword, title, author, subject, or series. Also available in WorldCat. Collection Description One of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.  32,000 volumes, 24,000 microfilms with an emphasis on the 13 American colonies, the American Revolutionary War, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a record at the Washington Memorial 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 Bibb County Health Department, Macon, births, deaths, and burials. Bibb County Clerk of the Probate Court, Macon, marriages and probate records. Bibb County Clerk of the Superior Court, Macon, divorce, court, and land records since 1823. Macon Bibb County Coroner, Macon, suspicious deaths. U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia, Macon, recent civil, criminal, and bankruptcy cases. Repositories in surrounding counties:  Crawford, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Peach, and Twiggs. 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