Georgia Salzburger Society

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Contact Information
Email: [mailto:gaslzbrgr@aol.com gaslzbrgr@aol.com]

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

Telephone: Office 912-754-7001; Museum Curator 912-655-4555

Hours and holidays: Museum and Living History Site - 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.

Similar Collections


 * 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.

Neighboring Collections


 * Coastal Health District GDPH has births 1890-now, marriages, and deaths 1891-now.
 * Effingham County Probate Court Clerk, [[Image:Fire.png|right|28px|Fire.png]]Springfield, has births and deaths since 1927; marriages and probate records since 1790. Some records were lost in the Civil War, or a fire in 1890.
 * Effingham County Superior Court Clerk, Springfield, has divorce and court records from 1777; and land records.
 * U.S. District Court recent civil, criminal and bankruptcy cases.
 * Springfield Branch, Live Oak Public Libraries Effingham County Library.
 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah Archives baptism, confirmations, marriages, deaths, parish records.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties in Georgia: Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Screven, in South Carolina:  Hampton, 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.
 * 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 Historical Society, Savannah, 4 million manuscripts, photos, papers, military, diaries, plantation records. They have almost as many genealogical sources as the Georgia Archives.
 * University of Georgia Main Library, Athens, largest collection for early Georgia settlers. Also, they hold county histories, county records, family records, biographies and newspapers.
 * Washington Memorial Library, Macon, one of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history. Emphasis on the 13 colonies, American Revolution, and Great Britain.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
 * FamilySearch Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records pertaining to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many Georgia Archives  microfilms are also available at branch FamilySearch Centers  in local church buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and described in their online FamilySearch Catalog.
 * Dallas Public Central Library 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states, and online databases including Georgia and other Southern states.