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United States Georgia Fulton County

County Courthouse

Fulton County Courthouse
136 Pryor Sreet SW;
Atlanta, GA 30303-3405
Phone: 404.730.5300 

Probate Court has marriage and probate records; Clerk Superior;Court has divorce, court and;land records from 1854^[1]

History

Parent County

1853--Fulton County was created 20 December 1853 from DeKalb, Campbell and Milton (became part of Fulton County  in 1932) Counties.
County seat:  Atlanta ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Cherokee
• Clayton
• Cobb
• Coweta
• DeKalb
• Douglas
• Fayette
• Forsyth
• Gwinnett

Resources

Cemeteries

• Grizzle, R. L. Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 1999. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

Westview Cemetery, Atlanta BillionGraves

Church

Baptist

• Semi-centennial History of the Second Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, November 27-30, 1904. Atlanta: Foote & Davies Co., Printers, Binders, 1904?. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  
• Nancy Creek Minutes and Memberships 1824-1833 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• First Baptist church of Atlanta Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Druid Hills Baptist Church of Atlanta Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Trinity Methodist Church  of Atlanta Georgia Pioneers ($)

LDS

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Atlanta
• East Point

Court

Directories

• 1867 - Barnwell, V. T. Barnwell's Atlanta City Directory, and Strangers' Guide: Also, A General Firemen's, Church, Masonic, and Odd-fellows' Record. Atlanta: Intelligencer Book and Job Office, 1867. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• 1889 - Atlanta City Directory, 1889. Atlanta, GA: R. L. Polk and Co., 1889. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• 1890 - Atlanta City Directory, 1890. Atlanta, GA: R. L. Polk and Co., 1890. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

Land

Local Histories

• Allen, Ivan. Atlanta from the Ashes. Atlanta, Ga.: Ruralist Press, 1929. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Allen, Ivan. The Atlanta Spirit: Altitude + Attitude. Atlanta, Ga.: I. Allen-Marshall Co., 1948. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Atlanta, A City of the Modern South. New York: Smith & Durrell, c1942. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Atlanta Centennial Year Book: 1837-1937. Atlanta?: G. Murphy, 1937. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Clarke, Edward Young. Atlanta Illustrated: Containing Glances at Its Population, Business, Manufactures, Industries, Institutions, Society, Healthfulness, Architecture, and Advantages Generally, with 150 Ullustrations and a Lithographic Map of the City. Atlanta, Ga.: J.P. Harrison & Co., 1881. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Cooper, Walter G. Official History of Fulton County. Atlanta: W.W. Brown Pub. Co., c1934. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Hand Book of the City of Atlanta: A Comprehensive Review of the City's Commercial, Industrial and Residential Conditions. Atlanta, Ga.: Southern Industrial Pub. Co., 1898. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Hornady, John R. Atlanta, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. unknown: American Cities Book Co., 1922. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• History of Atlanta, Georgia: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1889. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Ivey, John E. Building Atlanta's Future: by John E. Ivey, Jr., Nicholas J. Demerath, Woodrow W. Breland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1948. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Martin, Thomas H. Atlanta and Its Builders: A Comprehensive History of the Gate City of the South. Atlanta: Century Memorial Pub. Co., 1902. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Pioneer Citizens' History of Atlanta: 1833-1902. Atlanta, Ga.: Pioneer Citizens' Society of Atlanta, 1902. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

Maps 

Marriages

Marriages from old newspapers (1869-1906) Georgia Pioneers ($)

Military

Civil War

Civil War Battle

The following Civil War battles were fought in Fulton County.

• July 20, 1864 = Peachtree Creek^[3]
• July 22, 1864 = Atlanta^[4]
• July 28, 1864 = Ezra Church, also known as Battle of the Poor House^[5]
• August 5-7, 1864 = Utoy Creek^[6]

Map showing Civil War battles in Georgia.

Rosters of Confederate Soldiers from Fulton County Georgia Pioneers ($)

Newspapers

• 1868, 1875-1876, 1895 - The Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.). Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• 1870-1924 - The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.). Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• 1876-1879 - The Daily Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.). Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• 1904-1928 - Atlanta Independent - an African-American newspaper; full-text digital issues in Google News Archive; covers 1904-1928.

Probate 

• Wills 1854-1882 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Will Book A, 1854-1882; Will Book B, 1882-1894 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Annual Returns, Book A, 1854-1861 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Annual Returns, Book B, 1861-1865 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Annua Returns, Book C, 1866-1888 Georgia Pioneers ($) 
• Index to Inventories and Appraisements, Book A, 1854-1866 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Inventories and Appraisements, Book B, 1866-1883 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Miscellaneous Estates 1870-1935 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Indentures of Apprenticeship 1899-1913 Georgia Pioneers ($)

Taxation 

• 1854 Tax Digest of Atlanta Georgia  Pioneers ($)

Vital Records 

Birth

Atlanta Births 1886-1889; 1905-1910 Georgia Pioneers ($)

Death

• 1859-60, 1869-70, 1879-80 - Fulton County, Georgia Mortality Schedules at Ancestry ($).
  

Yearbooks

• Oglethorpe University: 1920 - 2008 

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

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

Web Sites

• Fulton County, GAGenWeb -  part of the USGenWeb Project
• Family History Library Catalog
• Fulton County, Georgia Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• Georgia Pioneers Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Fulton County Genealogy (Georgia Genealogy)

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Fulton County, Georgia. Page 155 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).
3. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 13 August, 2012)
4. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 13 August, 2012)
5. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 13 August, 2012)
6. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 13 August, 2012)