Georgia Confederate Home Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

United States Georgia 

What is in the Collection?
This collection consists of an index and images of registers of Confederate veterans who were inmates of the home in Atlanta during the years 1901 to 1930. Volume contents includes name, occupation, county of residence, date of birth, date and place entered military service, rank, company, regiment, when and where wounded, when and where taken prisoner of war, when and where put on specific detail, when and where separated from service, commanding officers, rank, branch of service, age upon admission to home, date entered home, relatives, date of death or discharge, date and place of burial. Records are located at the Georgia Department of Archives and History in Atlanta. Volume 3,1927-1930 is not available in this collection.

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What Can these Records Tell Me?
The forms ask for the following information but the information found varies between records.


 * Name
 * Birth date and place
 * Date and place entered military service
 * Rank
 * Military engagements (battles)
 * Date and place of injuries
 * When and where taken prisoner
 * When and where assigned to special details
 * Officer assigning the special details and why assigned to the detail
 * Where and when service ended (may also include why ended)
 * Commanding officers
 * Branch of service
 * Record date
 * Age at the time of record
 * Remarks

The records may also include:


 * Company and regiment
 * Date of death or military discharge
 * Date and place of burial

How Do I Search the Collection?
To begin your search it is helpful to know at least some of the following:
 * The name the confederate soldier.
 * The approximate age of the soldier.
 * The place where the soldier lived.
 * The year the soldier entered the home.

Fill in the requested information in the initial search page. This search will return a list of possible matches. Compare the information in the list to what you already know about your ancestor to determine if it is the correct person. You may need to compare several persons in the list before you find your ancestor.

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What Do I Do Next?
Whenever possible, view the original records to verify the information and to find additional information that might not be reported. These pieces of information can lead you to additional records and family members.

I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * Use the age to calculate a birth date and to find other records such as birth, christening, census, land and death records.
 * Use the information to find additional family members. Witnesses or bondsmen were usually relatives.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

I Can’t Find Who I’m Looking for, What Now?

 * Try viewing the original record to see if there were errors in the transcription of the name, age, residence, etc. Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name.
 * Collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you identify possible relations that can be verified by records.
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality in an area search.
 * Standard spelling of names typically did not exist during the periods our ancestors lived in. Try variations of your ancestor’s name while searching the index or browsing through images.
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for these names as well.
 * Search the indexes and records of Georgia, United States Genealogy.
 * Search in the Georgia Archives and Libraries.

Citing this Collection
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