What Are The Best Georgia Genealogy Resources?

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Taliaferro on July 10, 2009 at 10:31pm

The Georgia Archives in Morrow is the best!!! Death certificates to 1930, and no waiting for the mail!! Not to mention loads and loads of records. you can search to your hearts content!!

Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 10, 2009 at 10:36pm

I couldn't agree more! The new facility is so beautiful, it's worth the drive - although I do miss the convenience of Capitol St!:-)

When away from home I appreciate the Georgia's Virtual Vault too - http://content.sos.state.ga.us/

Luckie.

Permalink Reply by Valerie Craft on July 11, 2009 at 10:21am

I do love the Virtual Vault. There's so much there and more content is being added at a fair pace. A few other good resources:

County Formation Maps - http://www.familyhistory101.com/maps/ga_cf.html
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sanborn/?Welcome&Welcome&Welcome
USGenWeb for GA - http://www.usgwarchives.org/ga/gafiles.htm

Permalink Reply by Sandra Taliaferro on July 11, 2009 at 12:05pm

Good one, Valerie!! I forgot allabout the Virtual Vault. I like it most for the death certificates. It's great to be able to follow up on a lead instantly....at least up to 1927. I look forward to the addition of more years. Also, the Atlanta History Center is a good resource as well. BTW....I once found Fulton County plat maps from the 1800s online, but that was in my early days of research and I did not record where I found them. Anybody got any ideas?

Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 22, 2009 at 1:50pm

An AMAZING collection of historical images - Digital Library of Georgia http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu

Permalink Reply by Ms. Gerry Hill on August 3, 2009 at 6:07am

These LAND PLATS-by the way ARE NOT IN THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE. They have computerized the later ones-about 1970 down-and stores who knows where (they are very vague and talk about the flood-which gets them out of any looking)(We had huge floods a few years ago-just a little over a year apart-the COURTHOUSE was not flooded either time, but storage might have been) DOUGHERTY CO Ga

Permalink Reply by Ms. Gerry Hill on August 3, 2009 at 6:04am

For EARLY Ga-we only have a couple.
1790 RECONSTRUCTED by Marie DeLamar- a professional genealogist who lives here in Albany. She no longer sells it, but it is available through REPRINTS (This is JUST FACTS)

EXCERTS FROM INFORMATION ON SOME GEORGIA PIONEERS by Mattox. Sub title Family Heads 1805 Ga. Full of errors, as they all usually are-so as in anything you look at-take it only as a GUIDE.

In Original Records-be sure to look at MORTGAGES. These are usually still on the shelves, where other things are gone-and these poor people had to mortgate their cows, pigs, horses, and of course land and houses, to get the seeds for the next crop. I was surprised in some of my research for others-to find this out.

Ask what is available at the local library-from someone in the genealogy dept. a WHILE. In My county-someone from Albany State, took a project to do the land plats from the beginning of the county, and these are in the Genealogy Library, for the 1st 50 to 100 years. (Can not remember cut off, but I did film a lot of it in a job I did-and for someone needing early Dougherty Folks0-and Mitchell-I will share. Ms. Gerry Hill