Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library

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Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library

Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library Contact Information E-mail:  info@ccgsinc.org Address: 8 Carmichael Street Newnan, Georgia 30263 Telephone:  470-215-1966 Hours:  Wednesday - Friday 10 to 4; and the 1st and 4th Saturdays of the month 10 to 4. Map:  Google map: Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library Internet sites and databases: Welcome to the Coweta County Genealogical Society research library, publications, membership, events, contact, and photo gallery. Research Library collection description and visitor rules. Index to Cemeteries of Coweta County, GA (.pdf) List of All Known Cemeteries in Coweta County in 1986 (.pdf) Some Coweta County Birth Records 1874-1944 (.pdf) Collection Description Holdings include the best set of family folders in Georgia. They also have genealogical how-to manuals, genealogical periodicals and newsletters and indexes, Civil War records, DAR and Revolutionary War records, pension and bounty land records, immigration indexes, African Americans, American Indians, censuses and indexes, church records and histories, heraldry, pioneer families, many local-county-state histories for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and selected records from most other states, school yearbooks, family histories, and maps. Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a record at the Coweta County Genealogical Society Research 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 Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library, Moultrie, emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection.</ref> 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 Coweta County Clerk of the Probate Court, Newnan, county births and deaths since 1919; marriage and probate records since 1828. Coweta County Clerk of the Superior Court, Newnan, divorce, court, and land records since 1828. Newnan-Coweta Historical Society Coweta Public Library System 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. Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia, Atlanta, family histories, immigration, East Europe, Georgia, North America. Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, Atlanta, papers of the administration. Atlanta Area Family History Centers, allows patrons to view limited-access FamilySearch databases at the library and offers research guidance. Fulton County Health Department, Atlanta, births since 1896, deaths since 1887. Repositories in surrounding counties:  Carroll, Fayette, Fulton, Heard, Meriwether, Spalding, and Troup. 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. 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. Sources