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E-mail:[1] info@ccgsinc.org
Address:[2]
- 8 Carmichael Street
Newnan, Georgia
Telephone:[1] 470-215-1966
Hours:[2] 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:
Holdings include the best set of family folders in Georgia.[3]
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.[4]
- National Archives at Atlanta federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty-land, photos, passengers lists, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, and workshops.[5]
- 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.[3] 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.
Neighboring Collections
- Coweta County Clerk of the Probate Court, Newnan, county births and deaths since 1919; marriage and probate records since 1828.[6]
- Coweta County Clerk of the Superior Court, Newnan, divorce, court, and land records since 1828.[6]
- Newnan-Coweta Historical Society
- Coweta Public Library System
- Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library, large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA.[3] They have county histories, family histories, will indexes, deeds, military rosters, passenger lists, Atlanta city directories, Georgia censuses 1820-1930, local histories, and newspapers.[7]
- 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, can order microfilms from Salt Lake City for a small fee.
- Fulton County Health Department, Atlanta, births since 1896, deaths since 1887.
- Repositories in surrounding counties: DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, and Spalding.
- DeKalb History Center, Decatur, subject files, biographical files, cemetery index, maps, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, memoirs, yearbooks, and Atlanta City and suburban directories.[8]
- Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, 4 million manuscripts, photos, papers, military, diaries, plantation records. They have almost as many genealogical sources as the Georgia Archives.[3]
- 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.[9]
- Georgia Salzburger Society, Rincon, histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories.[10]
- 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.[3]
- Repositories in other surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Contact Us in Coweta County Genealogical Society (accessed 11 January 2016).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Welcome to the Coweta County Genealogical Society in Coweta County Genealogical Society (accessed 11 January 2016).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 33. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Book 973 J54d. Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 2.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 127-28.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Handybook for Genealogists (Logan, Utah : Everton Publishers Inc, 1999), 85. WorldCat 670125599; FHL Book 973 D27e 1999.
- ↑ Special Collections in Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (accessed 8 January 2016).
- ↑ Collections in DeKalb History Center (accessed 11 September 2015).
- ↑ Contact Us in Georgia Genealogical Society (accessed 8 January 2016).
- ↑ Living History Museum in Visit Ebenezer (accessed 11 September 2015).
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