Georgia, Fulton County Records from the Atlanta History Center - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection consists of records from Fulton County for the years 1827 to 1955. The collection includes:
 * Census and Voter Registration for Atlanta, Georgia
 * Cemetery records from Atlanta and vicinity
 * Garrett's Necrology (This collection includes extracts from obituaries for Atlanta and vicinity.)
 * Death extracts from Atlanta
 * Census of Whites and Colored citizens
 * Index of Campbell (Fulton) county vital statistics
 * Westview Cemetery Sexton Records
 * Voter registrations and miscellaneous court records from Campbell (Fulton) county
 * An index to the 1890 Atlanta City census
 * Atlanta city census, 1896 (First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Wards);
 * Census of Whites and Colored citizens, 1885-1888;
 * Campbell county, vital statistics index to births and deaths, 1927-1931.
 * Also includes voter registrations and miscellaneous court records from Fulton (Campbell) county. Not all images have been indexed.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:

County
 * Name of primary person or persons
 * Names of spouse, children, other relatives, or friends
 * Names of witnesses
 * Dates the documents were written and recorded
 * Ages
 * Residences
 * Relationships
 * Birth, marriage or death dates
 * Birth, marriage or death places
 * Occupation

Coverage Table
The coverage table shows the types of records and time periods covered.

How Do I Search This Collection?
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 * The name of the individual
 * The date of an event or the name of a parent or spouse

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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Use the age to calculate the birth date to find other records such as birth, christening, marriage, census, and death
 * Search for the family in census records
 * Use the occupations to find employment or military records
 * Use the information to find additional family members

I Can’t Find the Person 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

Research Helps
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in the state of Georgia.
 * Georgia Guided Research
 * Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Research
 * Georgia Record Finder

Citing This Collection
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