Georgia Archives and Libraries
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Georgia Archives and Libraries
The following archives, libraries, and societies have major collections or services helpful to genealogical researchers:
Archives
- The Georgia Archives
5800 Jonesboro Road
Morrow, GA 30260
Phone: 678 364-3700
The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia's most valuable historical documents.
Georgia's Virtual Vault provides virtual access to historic Georgia manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government records housed in the state archives. It includes Colonial will books, Confederate pension applications, County maps, County tax digests, Georgia death certificates, headright and bounty plats, marriage records, Spanish-American War service summary cards and more.
Two helpful guides to the collection are:
- Georgia Department of Archives and History.A Preliminary Guide to Eighteenth-Century Records Held by the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Atlanta, Georgia. The Department, 1976. FHL fiche 6100334; book 975.8 A3pg
- Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. Research in Georgia. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1981. FHL book 975.8 D27d.
- The National Archives at Atlanta
5780 Jonesboro Road
Morrow, GA 30260
Telephone: 770-968-2100
Libraries
- Georgia Historical Society Library
501 Whitaker Street
Savannah, GA 31499
- Washington Memorial Library
Middle Georgia Regional Library
1180 Washington Avenue
Macon, GA 31201
- John E. Ladson Jr. Genealogical and Historical Library
119 Church Street
Vidalia, GA 30474
To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Georgia counties, use the nine inventories of the county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. Eight of these inventories are available at the Family History Library. In the FamilySearch Catalog do a title search for "Inventory of the county archives of Georgia."
Societies
- Georgia Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 38066
Atlanta, GA 30334
Georgia Online Records
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A resource for locating archives in Appalachia is:
- Archives in Appalachia: A Directory. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985. (Family History Library book 975 A3a.) The record covers the states of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The record is arranged alphabetically by state, then by the name of the repository. Each entry lists the archive, its address, phone number, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, what subjects are covered by the collection, and the size of the collection. There are two indexes: Record type, and Subject, with reference numbers corresponding to the repository. Also included is a list, under “Coming Attractions,” of agencies that do not currently collect manuscript materials but plan to do so in the future.
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