Georgia Research Tips and Strategies
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Georgia Research Strategies
Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Georgia
- Georgia Online Genealogy Records
- How to find Georgia Birth Records
- How to find Georgia Marriage Records
- How to find Georgia Death Records
Georgia Research Tips
These tips will help you as you research your ancestors in Georgia.
- Birth information: Birth records in Georgia start on the county level in 1905 - although not all counties complied with the law. A helpful substitute record to find birth information is a death record. However, date and place of birth on a death record is considered secondary information, as it was not recorded at the time of the birth event. The birth information should be corroborated with other substitute records to improve accuracy.
- Finding Parents: Statewide registration of deaths began in 1919 in Georgia. They often will list the parents of the deceased and their birth information. Search Georgia death records
- Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search U.S. Censuses.
- Marriage Records. To see a coverage map of FamilySearch's holdings of Georgia marriages, click here.
Georgia Record Finder
This Record Finder is designed to help you determine the best record to search for the type of information you are looking for. It is most helpful for post-1850 research.
| 1. What you are looking for: | 2. Try these records first: | 3. Other useful records |
| Birth information | Birth records, Death records, Obituaries, Church records | Cemeteries, Naturalization and Citizenship, Bible records, Military records (pension) |
| Marriage information | Marriage records, Obituaries, Bible records | Church records, Probate records, Military records |
| Death information | Death Records, Cemeteries, Obituaries | Probate Records, Church Records, Bible Records |
| Parents | Birth records, Death records, Obituaries, Census, Church records | Biography, Genealogy |
| Maiden name | Marriage Records, Obituaries, Probate records | Church Records, Military Records (pension) |
| Immigration date | Emigration and Immigration, Naturalization and Citizenship, Census | Obituaries, Biography, History |
| Naturalization | Naturalization and Citizenship, Census, Court Records | Voting Registers, Biography, Periodicals |
| Physical description | Military Records, Naturalization and Citizenship (after 1906) | Biography, History |
Further Georgia Research
For more research on Georgia, including research at the county level, visit the Georgia page on the Research Wiki.
Search all of the Georgia record collections at FamilySearch.