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Online Georgia indexes and images

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Federal population schedules

Microfilm images

Indexes: fiche, film, or book

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Federal non-population schedules

Online indexes and images

Online Federal Non-Population Schedules for Georgia

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Microfilm images

Indexes: fiche, film, or book

For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Georgia, click here.

Census substitutes

In addition to published tax lists, some substitutes for the early missing censuses include:

  • 1805 Wood, Virginia S., and Ralph V. Wood. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Greenwood Press, 1964. (Family History Library book 975.8 R2wv .)
  • 1790 De Lamar, Marie, and Elizabeth Rothstein. The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia. 1976. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985. (Family History Library book 975.8 X2L.)
  • 1733-1747 Coulter, E. Merton, and Albert B. Saye. A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1949. (Family History Library book 975.8 W2L; film 007092.) This is for the period 1733 to 1747. It is updated by the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 19 (1983): 111-131. (Family History Library book 975.8 B2ga.)

State and colonial censuses

State censuses are at the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Some county censuses for the years 1827 to 1890 are also at the Family History Library.

  • 1938 School census. Fayette, Tattnal, and Walton counties only.[2]
  • 1933 School census. Fayette, Tattnal, and Walton counties only.[2]
  • 1928 School census. Fayette, Tattnal, and Walton counties only.[2]
  • 1918 School census. Henry County only.[2]
  • 1913 School census. Henry and Meriwether counties only.[2]
  • 1908 School census. Henry County only.[2]
  • 1903 School census. Henry and Meriwether counties only.[2]
  • 1898 School census. Meriwether County only.[2]
  • 1890 Federal census. Washington County only in the courthouse.[2][3]
  • 1879 State census. Columbia County only.[2][4]
  • 1865 State census. Bulloch County only.[2][5]
  • 1859 State census. Columbia[4][6][7] and Terrell counties only.[2][8]
  • 1853 State census. Morgan County only in the courthouse.[2]
  • 1852 State census. Chatham, Forsyth, Jasper[4], Morgan counties, and City of Augusta only.[2][8][9]
  • 1845 State census. Chatham, Dooly, Forsyth[10], and Warren counties only[2][4][8][11][12][13]
  • 1838 State census. Laurens[4], Lumpkin (partial)[14][15], Newton[4], Paulding, and Tattnall[4] counties only.[2][8][11][12][13]
  • 1837 State Census. Paulding County only.[14]
  • 1834 State census. Cass (Bartow)[16], Cherokee[17], Cobb[18], Forsyth[10][19], Gilmer, Lumpkin[15][20], Murray, and Union counties only.[2][14]
  • 1827 School census. Taliaferro County only.[2][8][12]
  • 1804 State census, partial.[8]
  • 1800 Federal census. Oglethorpe County only in courthouse.[2][8][11][21]
  • 1799 State census, partial.[8]
  • 1798 State census. Greene County (partial) only.[2][22]
  • 1743 Colonial census. Savannah, Vandburgh, Hampstead, Highgate, and ten individual plantations.[23]
  • 1741 Colonial census. Darien only.[24]
  • 1738 Colonial census. Frederica only.[25]

Existing and lost censuses

For a list of available and missing Georgia censuses, click here.

Why use a census?

A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.

More about censuses

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Sources and footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 HeritageQuest has slave owner schedule images only.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992)[[Template:Lainha]], 33-35.
  3. ↑ Georgia, Court of Ordinary (Washington County), "Census Returns of Washington County Taken by the County, 1890" (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1962 [in the Washington County courthouse, Sandersville, Ga.?])[[Template:GCOrdinary]].
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Georgia, Census Board, "State Census Records, 1838-1879" (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957, 1961 at the State Archives in Atlanta, Georgia and in the Columbia County courthouse in Appling, Georgia)[[Template:GCBoard]].
  5. ↑ Alvaretta K. Register, "1865 Census of Bulloch County, Georgia," Georgia Genealogical Magazine [FHL Book 975.8 B2go], no. 70 (1978): 247.
  6. ↑ Merita Rozier, Leoda Sherry, and Nesba Wright, "State Census Columbia County, Georgia, 1859" Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly [FHL Book 975.8 B2ga] 13 (1977): 254-73.
  7. ↑ MariLee Beatty Hageness, State Census 1859, Heads of Household, Columbia County, Georgia ([Anniston, Ala.: MLH Research], 1995)[FHL Book 975.8635 X2h 1859; Film 2055469 Item 4].
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Emily Anne Croom, The Genealogist's Companion and Sourcebook (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 1994)[FHL REF book 929.1 C882g], 39.
  9. ↑ Augusta Genealogical Society, Ancestoring 4 (1983) [FHL Book 975.8 D25an].
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Donna Parrish, Bonnye T. Leary, and Garland C. Bagley, Census Indexes of Forsyth County, Georgia, 1834-1900 (Cumming, Ga.: D. Parrish, 1981)[FHL Book 975.8265 X2p].
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Ancestry.com, Georgia Census, 1790-1890 at http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3542 (accessed 30 Janurary 2010).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, Censuses for Georgia Counties: Taliaferro 1827, Lumpkin 1838, Chatham 1845 (Atlanta, Ga.: R.J. Taylor, Jr., Foundation, 1979)[FHL Book 975.8 X2c]. Transcript with index.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Brigid S. Townsend, Indexes to Seven State Census reports for Counties in Georgia, 1838-1845 (Atlanta, Ga.: R.J. Taylor, Jr., Foundation, 1975)[FHL Book 975.8 X2pt]. Abstract and index.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Mary Bondurant Warren, and Eve B Weeks, Whites Among the Cherokees: Georgia 1828-1838 (Danielsville, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1987)[FHL Book 970.3 C424wg].
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Rebekah S. Wilson, Rebekah S. Wilson Genealogical Collection (Atlanta, Ga.: Diane Dieterle Genealogical Center, 1982)[[Template:RWilson]]. -- Lumpkin census 1834 -- 1838 Lumpkin County census.
  16. ↑ MariLee Beatty Hageness, 1834 State Census, Cass/Bartow Counties, Georgia (Anniston, Ala.: MLH Research, 1994)[FHL Book 975.8365 X2h 1834; Fiche 6038926]. Heads of house index only.
  17. ↑ MariLee Beatty Hageness, 1834 State Census, Cherokee County, Georgia (Anniston, Ala.: MLH Research, 1995)[FHL Book 975.8253 X2h 1834; Fiche 6038961].
  18. ↑ MariLee Beatty Hageness, Heads of Families, 1834 State Census, Cobb County, Georgia (Anniston, Ala.: MLH Research, 1995)[FHL Book 975.8245 X2h; Fiche 6038864].
  19. ↑ MariLee Beatty Hageness, Heads of Household 1834 State Census, Forsyth County, Georgia (Anniston, Ala.: MLH Research, 1995)[FHL Book 975.8265 X2h 1834].
  20. ↑ Frances T. Ingmire, 1834 State Census of Lumpkin County, Georgia (St. Louis, Mo. : F.T. Ingmire, [198-])[FHL Book 975.8273 X2i 1834].
  21. ↑ Mary Bondurant Warren, 1800 Census of Oglethorpe County, Georgia; the Only Extant Census of 1800 within the State of Georgia, Transcribed from the Original and Indexed ([Athens, Ga.: M.B. Warren, 1965])[FHL Book 975.8175 X2p 1800].
  22. ↑ Frank Parker Hudson, "1798 Census of First Battalion, Greene County, Georgia," Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly [FHL Book 975.8 B2ga] 4 (1968): 649-54. Alphabetical transcript of heads of house and number of "whites" and "coloureds" in the household.
  23. ↑ Robert S. Davis, Jr., "1743 Census of Georgia and It's Critic" Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly [FHL Book 975.8 B2ga] 21, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 2-6.
  24. ↑ Robert S. Davis, Jr., "A Census of Darien, Ga., 1741" Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly [FHL Book 975.8 B2ga] 24, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 212-14.
  25. ↑ Robert S. Davis, Jr., "1738 Census of Frederica, Georgia" Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly [FHL Book 975.8 B2ga] 25, no. 3 (Fall 1989): 150-55.
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