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United States Georgia  Archives and Libraries

These repositories preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in Georgia.

National
National Archives at Atlanta 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260 USA Phone: 770-968-2100 Fax: 770-968-2547 E-mail: [mailto:atlanta.archives@nara.gov atlanta.archives@nara.gov] Internet: National Archives at Atlanta


 * Records from over 100 federal agencies and courts in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Also includes Vice Admiralty Courts of SC, evolution of federal courts, Constitutional rights, Revolutionary War, Civil War, reconstruction, World Wars I and II, and space exploration. Microfilms for censuses, diplomatic missions, military service records, bounty-land applications, passenger arrival lists, naturalizations, American Indians, and African Americans.

Dallas Public Central Library 1515 Young St. Dallas, TX 75201-9987 USA Telephone: 214-670-1433 E-mail: [mailto:genealogy@dallaslibrary.org genealogy@dallaslibrary.org] Internet: Dallas Public Library Genealogy


 * Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Georgia, Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.

Statewide
Georgia Archives 5800 Jonesboro Road Morrow, GA 30260 Telephone: 678 364-3700 Fax: 678-364-3860 E-mail: Ask an Archivist Form Internet: Georgia Archives


 * Holdings include state government records, county records, Georgia histories, newspapers, and some family histories. This is the best place to start family history research in Georgia. The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia's most valuable historical documents.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.
 * Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. Research in Georgia. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1981.

Georgia Historical Society 501 Whitaker Street Savannah, GA 31499 Internet: Georgia Historical Society Library


 * They have almost as many genealogical sources as the Georgia Archives.

Georgia Genealogical Society P.O. Box 38066 Atlanta, GA 30334 Internet: Georgia Genealogical Society


 * They provide advice but have no building or library collection of their own.

Regional
Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room 2025 Baxter Street Athens,GA 30606 Telephone: 706-613-3650 x350 Internet: Heritage Room


 * This book, map, microfilm and archival collection spans the southeastern United States and up the East Coast, with limited holdings pertaining to New England. Local history holdings include vertical files, surname files and newspapers. The Heritage Room is a department of the Athens-Clarke County Library, part of the Athens Regional Library System, and the Reading Room maintains separate hours of the rest of the Library. Registration with a government-issued photo ID is required.

Atlanta History Center 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW Atlanta, GA 30305 Telephone: 404-814-4000 E-mail: Contact Us Internet: Atlanta History Center


 * Sources for studying Atlanta and southern regional history and culture. The 42,000 square foot library possesses over 15,000 cubic feet of records, including 33,000 published volumes, more than 2,000 manuscript and photograph collections, and 7,800 rolls of microfilm.

Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library Internet: Central Library and Library System Headquarters


 * Their Historic Georgia, and Genealogy collections are large with good coverage of the Southeast United States.

Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library Internet: Research Library


 * Holdings include the best set of family folders in Georgia.

DeKalb History Center Internet: DeKalb History Center


 * Subject files, biographical files, DeKalb County cemetery index, maps, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, DeKalb County collection such as memoirs, yearbooks, and Atlanta City and suburban directories.

Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Moultrie-Colquitt County Library 204 5th Street, S.E. Moultrie, Georgia 31768 USA Telephone: 229-985-6540 E-mail: [mailto:mccls@mccls.org mccls@mccls.org] Internet: Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library


 * Emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection.

Georgia Salzburger Society Loest Research Library 2980 Ebenezer Road Georgia Highway 275 Rincon, Georgia 31326 Telephone: 912-754-7001 E-mail: [mailto:gaslzbrgr@aol.com gaslzbrgr@aol.com] Internet: Georgia Salzburger Society


 * Histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories.

Gilbert H. Gragg Library a Southwest Georgia Regional Library 301 S. Monroe Street Bainbridge, Georgia 39819 Telephone: 229-248-2665 Fax: 229-248-2670 E-mail: [mailto:librarian@swgrl.org librarian@swgrl.org] Internet: Gilbert H. Gragg Library


 * They have very good book, surname folder, genealogy, newspaper, and oral history collections.

Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library Internet:Huxford Genealogical Society, Inc.


 * Their genealogical collection covers the Southeast United States well.

Ladson Genealogical Library Ohoopee Regional Library System 119 Church Street Vidalia, GA 30474 Internet: Ladson Genealogical Library


 * This is primarily a book collection, but their genealogical sources cover the entire Atlantic seaboard.

Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library 135 North Broad Street Thomasville, Georgia 31792 USA Telephone: 229-226-9640 Fax: 229-226-3199 E-mail: [mailto:glibrary@rose.net glibrary@rose.net] Internet: Genealogy


 * Good collection of southern states family history material. Family and county histories, school yearbooks, city directories since 1946, local newspapers since 1861, African American obituary collection, census records, and Heritage Quest access.

University of Georgia Main Library


 * They have the largest collection in the state of manuscripts about early Georgia settlers. Also, they hold county histories, county records, family records, biographies and newspapers.

Washington Memorial Library Middle Georgia Regional Library 1180 Washington Avenue Macon, GA 31201 Internet: Washington Memorial Library


 * One of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.

For Further Reading

 * Ellen Garrison, ed., Archives in Appalachia: A Directory (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). ; . This work 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.