Georgia Compiled Genealogies

Online Resources

 * The Germans of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783, ($)
 * GEDCOM Index Georgia, index
 * North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, index and images, ($).
 * Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies - Community Trees at FamilySearch Genealogies

Most archives, historical societies, and genealogical societies have special collections and indexes of genealogical value. These must usually be searched in person. Two outstanding manuscript collections of compiled genealogies for Georgia are:

Collections
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Genealogical Collection.

This collection consists of transcripts of Bible records, cemetery records, church records, marriages, deaths, obituaries, and wills. It was microfilmed in 1970 and 1971 at the DAR Library in Washington, D.C., and is available at the Family History Library, A smaller collection was filmed in 1938-1957 at Atlanta  A third collection of alphabetically arranged compiled genealogies was filmed at Atlanta in 1962

The Leon S. Hollingsworth Genealogical Card File.

This 45,000-card file indexes Georgia censuses, wills, deeds, tax records, marriages, military records, cemetery records, newspapers, and family Bibles. It was microfilmed at the R. J. Taylor, Jr., Foundation in Atlanta and is now at the Georgia Department of Archives and History and the Family History Library. This collection is listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under UNITED STATES - GENEALOGY and  A list of the surnames mentioned in the collection and the number of cards for each name is Leon S. Hollingsworth, Genealogical Card File: An Introduction and Inventory (Atlanta, Georgia: R. J. Taylor, Jr., Foundation, 1979)

Published Collections


 * Huxford, Folks. Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia. Nine Volumes. (Homerville, Georgia: F. Huxford, 1951-93.) ,
 * Austin, Jeannette Holland. The Georgians: Genealogies of Pioneer Settlers. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984.) ,
 * Gnann, Pearl R. Georgia Salzburger and Allied Families. Revised. (Savannah, Georgia: Mrs. C. LeBey and Georgia Genealogical Reprints, 1970.) ,
 * Candler, Allen D. The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia, Three Volumes. (Atlanta, Georgia: The Franklin-Turner Company, 1908.), Digital version available through FamilySearch Catalog entry. This book has records from 1777-84 and is indexed. Contains early legislative minutes, petitions, papers of governors, sales of confiscated loyalist estates, assembly and council of safety journals, and executive council minutes.
 * Candler, Allen D., et al. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, 1732-1784. 32 volumes. (Atlanta, Georgia: State Printers, 1904-89.), This has records of the Governor and Council, House of Assembly, correspondence, etc. There are every-name indexes beginning with volume four.
 * Crozier, William Armstrong. A Key to Southern Pedigrees: Being a Comprehensive Guide to the Colonial Ancestry of Families in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Alabama. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Southern Book Company, 1953. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.

Websites

 * AncestorHunt Georgia Genealogy
 * Georgia Genealogical Society
 * Georgia Genealogy
 * Access Genealogy-Georgia Genealogy
 * Genealinks-Georgia Genealogy
 * Genealogy Inc-Georgia Genealogy
 * Linkpendium-Georgia Genealogy