Georgia Census

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Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Georgia, click here

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Georgia, click here.

Census substitutes
In addition to published tax lists, some substitutes for the early missing censuses include:


 * 1805 Wood, Virginia S., and Ralph V. Wood. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Greenwood Press, 1964. (Family History Library book 975.8 R2wv .)
 * 1790 De Lamar, Marie, and Elizabeth Rothstein. The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia. 1976. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985. (Family History Library book 975.8 X2L.)
 * 1733-1747 Coulter, E. Merton, and Albert B. Saye. A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1949. (Family History Library book 975.8 W2L; film 007092.) This is for the period 1733 to 1747. It is updated by the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 19 (1983): 111-131. (Family History Library book 975.8 B2ga.)

State and colonial censuses
State censuses are at the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Some county censuses for the years 1827 to 1890 are also at the Family History Library.


 * 1938 School census. Fayette, Tattnal, and Walton counties only.
 * 1933 School census. Fayette, Tattnal, and Walton counties only.
 * 1928 School census. Fayette, Tattnal, and Walton counties only.
 * 1918 School census. Henry County only.
 * 1913 School census. Henry and Meriwether counties only.
 * 1908 School census. Henry County only.
 * 1903 School census. Henry and Meriwether counties only.
 * 1898 School census. Meriwether County only.
 * 1890 Federal census. Washington County only in the courthouse.
 * 1879 State census. Columbia County only.
 * 1865 State census. Bulloch County only.
 * 1859 State census. Columbia and Terrell counties only.
 * 1853 State census. Morgan County only in the courthouse.
 * 1852 State census. Chatham, Forsyth, Jasper, Morgan counties, and City of Augusta only.
 * 1845 State census. Chatham, Dooly, Forsyth, and Warren counties only
 * 1838 State census. Laurens, Lumpkin (partial) , Newton , Paulding, and Tattnall counties only.
 * 1837 State Census. Paulding County only.
 * 1834 State census. Cass (Bartow), Cherokee , Cobb , Forsyth , Gilmer, Lumpkin , Murray, and Union counties only.
 * 1827 School census. Taliaferro County only.
 * 1804 State census, partial.
 * 1800 Federal census. Oglethorpe County only in courthouse.
 * 1799 State census, partial.
 * 1798 State census. Greene County (partial) only.
 * 1743 Colonial census. Savannah, Vandburgh, Hampstead, Highgate, and ten individual plantations.
 * 1741 Colonial census. Darien only.
 * 1738 Colonial census. Frederica only.

Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing Georgia censuses, click here.

Why use a census?
A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.

More about censuses
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 * index searching tips
 * analyzing and using what you find
 * census accuracy
 * historical background
 * contents of various census years and types