Georgia Archives and Libraries

United States  Georgia  Archives and Libraries  The following archives, libraries, and societies have major collections or services helpful to genealogical researchers: National Dallas Public Central Library 1515 Young St. Dallas, TX 75201-9987 USA Telephone: 214-670-1433 E-mail: genealogy@dallaslibrary.org Internet: Dallas Public Library Genealogy <dl><dd>Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Georgia, Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB107">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 107. . .  </dd></dl> <img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/e/e7/NARA_Atlanta.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="NARA Atlanta.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="175" alt="NARA Atlanta.jpg" class="fck_mw_right" style="width: 175;" />National Archives at Atlanta</a> 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260 USA Phone: 770-968-2100 Fax: 770-968-2547 E-mail: atlanta.archives@nara.gov</a> Internet: National Archives at Atlanta</a> <dl><dd>Records from over 100 federal agencies and courts in Georgia. 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.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB127">Dollarhide and Bremer, 127-28. </dd></dl> Statewide <img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/c/c1/Georgia-archives_Repository.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Georgia-archives Repository.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="175" alt="Georgia-archives Repository.jpg" class="fck_mw_right" style="width: 175;" />Georgia Archives</a> 5800 Jonesboro Road Morrow, GA 30260 Phone: 678 364-3700 Internet: Georgia Archives</a> <dl><dd>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.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33">Dollarhide and Bremer, 33. The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia's most valuable historical documents. </dd></dl> <dl><dd>Georgia's Virtual Vault</a> 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. </dd></dl> <dl><dd>Two helpful guides to the collection are: </dd></dl> <dl><dd><ul><li>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. <span class="fck_mw_template"> </li></ul> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><ul><li>Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. Research in Georgia. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1981. <span class="fck_mw_template"> </li></ul> </dd></dl> Georgia Historical Society</a> 501 Whitaker Street Savannah, GA 31499 Internet: Georgia Historical Society Library</a> <dl><dd>They have almost as many genealogical sources as the Georgia Archives.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> Georgia Genealogical Society</a> P.O. Box 38066 Atlanta, GA 30334 Internet: Georgia Genealogical Society</a> <dl><dd>They provide advice but have no building or library collection of their own. </dd></dl> Regional <img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/2/2b/Atlanta_History_Center_rear.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Atlanta History Center rear.jpg" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="175" alt="Atlanta History Center rear.jpg" class="fck_mw_right" style="width: 175;" />Atlanta History Center</a> 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW Atlanta, GA 30305 Telephone: 404-814-4000 E-mail: Contact Us</a> Internet: Atlanta History Center</a> <dl><dd>Sources for studing 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.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">Kenan Research Center in Atlanta History Center (accessed 11 September 2015). </dd></dl> Atlanta-Fulton Public Library</a> Central Library <dl><dd>Their Historic Georgia, and Genealogy collections are large with good coverage of the Southeast United States.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> Coweta County Genealogical and Historical Research Library</a> <dl><dd>Holdings include the best set of family folders in Georgia.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> DeKalb History Center</a> <dl><dd>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.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">Archives and Research in DeKalb History Center (accessed 11 September 2015). </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library">Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library</a> Moultrie-Colquitt County Library 204 5th Street, S.E. Moultrie, Georgia 31768 USA Telephone: 229-985-6540 E-mail: <a href="mailto:mccls@mccls.org">mccls@mccls.org</a> Internet: <a href="http://www.mccls.org/odom_gen.htm">Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library</a> <dl><dd>Emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Huxford Spear Genealogical Library">Huxford Spear Genealogical Library</a> <dl><dd>Their genealogical collection covers the Southeast United States well.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="John E. Ladson Jr. Genealogical and Historical Library">John E. Ladson Jr. Genealogical and Historical Library</a> 119 Church Street Vidalia, GA 30474 Internet: <a href="http://www.ohoopeelibrary.org/ladson.htm">John E. Ladson Jr. Genealogical and Historical Library</a> <dl><dd>This is primarily a book collection, but their genealogical sources cover the entire Atlantic seaboard.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Salzburger Society">Salzburger Society</a> Loest Research Library 2980 Ebenezer Road Georgia Highway 275 Rincon, Georgia 31326 Telephone: 912-754-7001 E-mail: <a href="mailto:gaslzbrgr@aol.com">gaslzbrgr@aol.com</a> Internet: <a href="http://visitebenezer.com/">Georgia Salzburger Society</a> <dl><dd>Histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">Living History Museum in Georgia Salzburger Society (accessed 11 September 2015). </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Southwest Georgia Regional Library">Southwest Georgia Regional Library</a> <dl><dd>They have very good books, surname folders, genealogies, newspapers, and oral history collections.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library">Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library</a> 135 North Broad Street Thomasville, Georgia 31792 USA Telephone: 229-226-9640 Fax: 229-226-3199 E-mail: <a href="mailto:glibrary@rose.net">glibrary@rose.net</a> Internet: <a href="http://home.rose.net/~glibrary/">Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library</a> <dl><dd>Good collection of southern states family history material. </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="University of Georgia Main Library">University of Georgia Main Library</a> <dl><dd>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.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Washington Memorial Library">Washington Memorial Library</a> Middle Georgia Regional Library 1180 Washington Avenue Macon, GA 31201 Internet: <a href="http://www.bibblib.org/genealogy-archives/">Washington Memorial Library</a> <dl><dd>One of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="DB33" /> </dd></dl> Online Records <span class="fck_mw_template"> <span class="fck_mw_template"> For Further Reading <ul><li>Ellen Garrison, ed., Archives in Appalachia: A Directory (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; <span class="fck_mw_template">. 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. </li></ul> References <span class="fck_mw_template"> <span class="fck_mw_template"> <span class="fck_mw_template"> <span class="fck_mw_template">

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