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Contents 1 County Courthouse 2 History 2.1 Parent County 2.2 Boundary Changes 2.3 Record Loss 3 Places/Localities 3.1 Populated Places 3.2 Neighboring Counties 4 Resources 4.1 Cemeteries 4.2 Church 4.3 Court 4.4 Land  4.5 Local Histories 4.6 Maps 4.7 Military 4.8 Newspapers 4.9 Probate    4.10 Taxation 4.11 Vital Records 4.11.1 Death 5 Societies and Libraries 5.1 Family History Centers 6 Web Sites 7 References

County Courthouse

Columbia County Courthouse
PO Box 498;
Evans GA 30809
Phone: 760.868.330

Clerk of Court has land records from 1700’s,
court records from 1900’s divorce records from 1945;
Probate Court has birth, marriage, death and probate
records^[1]

History

Parent County

1790--Columbia County was created 10 December 1790 from Richmond County.
County seat: Appling ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

• Cities: Grovetown | Harlem | Appling | Berzelia | Campania | Evans | Martinez | Sawdust

Neighboring Counties

• Aiken County, South Carolina
• Edgefield County, South Carolina
• Lincoln
• McCormick County, South Carolina
• Mcduffie
• Richmond

Resources

Cemeteries

LDS Cemetery Records

• US Vol. 5
  • page 100 - Walker Cemetery
  • page 100 - Piney Grove Church
  • page 100 - Adams Chapel Church

Church

Court

Land 

  Index to Deeds 1801-1803; Bk E 1815 Georgia Pioneers

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Newspapers

Probate   

• Wills 1790-1888 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Wills 1803-1821; 1839-1859  Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Letters of Administration 1788-1825 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Distribution of Estates 1809-1827 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Inventories, Sales, Appraisements, Book G 1804-1810; 1821-1829; Bk X 1829-1839; Bk EE 1839-1850 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Accounts of Estates Book L, 1813-1821; Book M, 1820-1826; Book CC, 1824-1833

Georgia Pioneers

Taxation

Vital Records

Death

• 1849-50, 1869-70, 1879-80 - Columbia County, Georgia Mortality Schedules at Ancestry ($).
  

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Augusta Georgia Family History Center 

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Columbia County, Georgia Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• Georgia Pioneers

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Columbia County, Georgia. Page 153 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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