Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library

United States Georgia  Colquitt  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:mccls@mccls.org mccls@mccls.org]

Address:


 * Street address:  Moultrie-Colquitt County Library 204 5th Street, Southeast Moultrie, Georgia 31768 USA Mailing address:  Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library P.O. Box 2828 Moultrie, GA 31776 USA

Telephone: 229-985-6540

Hours and Holidays: 8:30am-5:30pm Monday-Saturday. Closed major holidays.

Map, Directions, and Public transportation


 * Map: Google map: Moultrie-Colquitt County Library
 * Directions:  Directions to the Library
 * Public transportation: 

Internet sites and databases:


 * Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library clans and families, collections, databases, indexes, blogs, online resources, and veteran's history project.
 * Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library brochure.
 * Georgia Pines Catalog for 275 Georgia libraries including the Odom Genealogical Library. Arranged by keyword, author, title, subject, or series. Also available in WorldCat.

Collection Description
The Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library in the south wing of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection. Their collection is an archives for more than 130 Scottish clan organizations, houses many rare books including an original edition of Scottish Peerage, and the Emmett Lucas Collection about the southeastern United States, the Civil War and migration routes west. They have a good collection of newspapers. The Odom Genealogy Library is considered one of the three "crown jewels" of genealogy repositories in the Georgia public library system.

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 * State Archives
 * State Library

Similar Collections


 * National Personnel Records Center
 * LC
 * FHL

Neighboring Collections


 * County Vital Records Office
 * City Vital Records Office
 * County Archives
 * County Orphan's Court
 * County Probate Court
 * County Recorder
 * County Coroner
 * U.S. District Court
 * County and local historical societies
 * County and local genealogical societies
 * Public Libraries
 * Museums and heritage societies
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Brooks, Cook, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift, and Worth.
 * State Vital Records Office
 * State Historical Society
 * State Genealogical Society
 * University Libraries
 * Church archives
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.