Georgia Archives and Libraries

United States    Georgia     Archives and Libraries

The following archives, libraries, and societies have major collections or services helpful to genealogical researchers:

Georgia Archives
The Georgia Archives 5800 Jonesboro Road Morrow, GA 30260 Phone: 678 364-3700 The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia's most valuable historical documents.

Georgia's Virtual Vault provides virtual access to historic Georgia manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government records housed in the state archives. It includes Colonial will books, Confederate pension appplications, County maps, County tax digests, Georgia death certificates, headright and bounty plats, marriage records, Spanish-american War service summary cards and more.

Two helpful guides to the collection are:


 * Georgia Department of Archives and History.A Preliminary Guide to Eighteenth-Century Records Held by the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Atlanta, Georgia. The Department, 1976.
 * Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. Research in Georgia. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1981.

The National Archives at Atlanta
5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, GA 30260 Telephone: 770-968-2100 Internet: http://www.archives.gov/southeast/

Georgia Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 38066 Atlanta, GA 30334 Internet: http://www.gagensociety.org/

Georgia Historical Society Library
501 Whitaker Street Savannah, GA 31499 Internet: http://www.georgiahistory.com/containers/2

Washington Memorial Library
Middle Georgia Regional Library 1180 Washington Avenue Macon, GA 31201 Internet: http://www.co.bibb.ga.us/library/

John E. Ladson Jr. Genealogical and Historical Library
119 Church Street Vidalia, GA 30474 Internet: http://www.ohoopeelibrary.org/ladson.htm

To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Georgia counties, use the nine inventories of the county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. Eight of these inventories are available at the Family History Library.

Web Sites
The following sites are important gateways:

The USGenWeb Project
A cooperative effort by many volunteers to list genealogical databases, libraries, bulletin boards, and other resources available on the Internet for each county, state, and country.

Roots-L
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/roots-l/

A useful list of sites and resources. Includes a large, regularly updated research coordination list.

FamilySearch™
www.familysearch.org

FamilySearch is a good place to begin your research. Some of the records come from compiled sources; some have been automated from original sources.