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United States Georgia Harris County

	Georgia Online Records

County Courthouse

Harris County Courthouse
PO Box 528
Hamilton, GA 31811-0528
Phone: 706.628.4944

Probate Court has marriage and probate records;
Clerk Superior Court has land records from 1827,
divorce and court records from 1927; County Health
Department has birth and death records^[1]

History

Parent County

1827--Harris County was created 14 December 1827 from Muscogee and Troup Counties.
County seat: Hamilton^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

1865 -- Fire set by Federal Troops, but quickly extinguished.

For further information on researching in burned counties, see the following:

• Burned Counties Research
  
• http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=2424

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Chambers County, Alabama
• Lee County, Alabama
• Meriwether
• Muscogee
• Talbot
• Troup

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Newspapers

Probate 

• Wills, Book 1, 1835-1849 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers
• Wills, Book 2, 1850-1875 (digital images). See names of Testators.  Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Will Book 1, 1850-1875  Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Will Book 2, 1873-1932 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Misc. Estates, Book B, 1837-1844 Georgia Pioneers

Taxation

Vital Records 

Marriages

• Index to Harris County Marriages 1828-1860
• Index to Harris County Marriages 1859-1872 Georgia Pioneers

Death

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

• 1879-80 - Hamilton Mortality Schedules at Ancestry ($).
  

Societies and Libraries 

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

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
• Harris County, Georgia Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• Georgia Pioneers Georgia Pioneers

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Harris County, Georgia. Page 156 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).