Sumter County, Georgia Genealogy

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County Courthouse
Sumter County Courthouse PO Box 295 Americus, GA 31709-0295 Phone: 912.924.3090 County Health Department has birth, death and burial records; Probate Court has marriage and probate records; Clerk Superior Court has divorce, court and land records from 1831

Parent County
1831--Sumter County was created 26 December 1831 from Lee County. County seat:  Americus

Neighboring Counties

 * Crisp
 * Dooly
 * Lee
 * Macon
 * Marion
 * Schley
 * Terrell
 * Webster

Marriages
1833-1850 Georgia Pioneers ($)

1885-1886 (from newspapers) Georgia Pioneers ($)

Civil War

 * Andersonville, Georgia. Andersonville Prisoner of War Database. Andersonville, GA, USA: National Park Service, Andersonville National Historic Site. Digital version at Ancestry ($).


 * Clavreul, H. Diary of Rev. H. Clavreul: With the Names of Dying Federal Soldiers to Whom He Ministered at Andersonville, Ga. July and August, 1864. Waterbury, Conn.: Connecticut Association of Ex-prisoners of War, 1910. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Probate

 * Wills 1831-1900 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
 * Index to Will Book 00, 1838-1855 Georgia Pioneers ($)

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Sumter County, Georgia Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Georgia Pioneers Georgia Pioneers ($)
 * Georgia Pioneers Georgia Pioneers ($)