Georgia Salzburger Society

United States Georgia  Effingham  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
E-mail: Contact Us form.

Address:


 * Loest Research Library 2980 Ebenezer Road Georgia Highway 275 Rincon, Georgia 31326

Telephone: Office 912-754-7001;  Museum Curator 912-826-5629

Hours and holidays: Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday 3-5pm, or by appointment

Map:  Google map: Georgia Salzburger Society

Internet sites and databases:


 * Visit Ebenezer GA Heritage Day Festival, Loest Research Library, Georgia Salzburger Society, contact, Living History Museum, Jerusalem Lutheran Church, sites, map, Savannah River, for kids, and weather.
 * Genealogy history of Georgia Salzburgers and Allied Families, genealogy exchange, family name contacts, outside genealogy links.
 * Loest Research Library opening celebration with images.

Collection Description
Histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories.


 * Pearl Rahn Gnann, Georgia Salzburgers and Allied Families, 4 vols. (Greenville, S.C. : Southern Historical Press, 2003). 1956 edition online; 2003 edition ; has genealogical information about some of the earliest Georgia families.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a record at the , a similar record may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives at Atlanta federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty-land, photos, passengers lists, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, and workshops.
 * Federal Records Center, Ellenwood, GA., receives federal agency and court records of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
 * Georgia Archives, Morrow, is the best place to start family history research in Georgia. Genealogies, county histories, newspapers, tax digests, private papers, church records, cemeteries, Bible records, municipal records, census, maps, land plats, photographs, Georgia Confederate service and pension records, colonial, headright bounty land grants, land lottery, and Georgia county records.

Neighboring Collections


 * Coastal Health District GDPH has births 1890-now, marriages, and deaths 1891-now.
 * Chatham County Register of Deeds has deeds, births, marriages, and deaths.
 * Chatham County Probate Court Clerk has wills, births, marriages, and deaths.
 * Chatham County Superior Court Clerk has divorce and court records from 1783; land records from 1785, and naturalizations from 1801.
 * U.S. District Court
 * Bull Street Branch, Live Oak Public Libraries genealogy collection.
 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah Archives baptism, confirmations, marriages, deaths, parish records.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties in Georgia: Bryan, Effingham, in South Carolina:  Beaufort, and Jasper.
 * Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library, large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA. They have county histories, family histories, will indexes, deeds, military rosters, passenger lists, Atlanta city directories, Georgia censuses 1820-1930, local histories, and newspapers.
 * Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center, extensive Georgia family and county histories, Sons of the American Revolution library, holdings for North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama genealogy.
 * Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Atlanta, members, meetings, newsletter, surname queries, links.
 * Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia, Atlanta, family histories, immigration, East Europe, Georgia, North America.
 * Georgia Genealogical Society, Atlanta, events, meetings, membership, publications and index, and research tools, but no library. They provide advice, but do not conduct research for you.
 * Georgia Salzburger Society, Rincon, histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories.
 * University of Georgia Main Library, Athens, largest collection for early Georgia settlers. Also, they hold county histories, county records, family records, biographies and newspapers.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
 * Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH), Montgomery, military and state censuses, county records on microfilm, family histories, and newspapers.
 * State Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, public records, family/county histories, Memory Project.
 * North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, has so many county court records they have not all been cataloged, NC government records at the state, district, and county levels, maps, war records.
 * South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, county, district, colonial, state records, censuses, wills, Confederate penions, criminals, and land grants.
 * Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, vital records, censuses, county records, tax lists, local histories, school censuses, military records, Native Americans, newspapers, obituary lists, and maps.