Georgia Research Tips and Strategies
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Georgia Research Strategies[edit | edit source]
Below are links to different research strategy pages to help you locate your ancestors in Georgia
- Georgia Online Genealogy Records
- How to find Georgia Birth Records
- How to find Georgia Marriage Records
- How to find Georgia Death Records
Georgia Research Tips[edit | edit source]
These tips will help you as you research your ancestors in Georgia.
- Birth information: Birth records in Georgia start on the county level in 1905 - although not all counties complied with the law. A helpful substitute record to find birth information is a death record. However, date and place of birth on a death record is considered secondary information, as it was not recorded at the time of the birth event. The birth information should be corroborated with other substitute records to improve accuracy.
- Finding Parents: Statewide registration of deaths began in 1919 in Georgia. They often will list the parents of the deceased and their birth information. Search Georgia death records
- Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search U.S. Censuses.
Georgia Record Finder[edit | edit source]
This brief Record Finder is designed to help you determine the best record to search for the type of information you are looking for. It is most helpful for post-1850 research. For a more complete Record Finder, covering additional research needs, see Georgia Record Finder.
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Further Georgia Research[edit | edit source]
- Remember, for a more complete Record Finder, covering additional research needs, see Georgia Record Finder.
- For online record collections, go to Georgia Online Genealogy Records.
- For more research on Georgia, including research at the county level, visit the Georgia page on the Research Wiki.
- Search all of the Georgia record collections at FamilySearch.
