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:

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Road Morrow, GA 30260 Phone: 678 364-3700 The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia's most valuable historical documents.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

Libraries

 * Georgia Historical Society Library 501 Whitaker Street Savannah, GA 31499


 * Washington Memorial Library Middle Georgia Regional Library 1180 Washington Avenue Macon, GA 31201


 * John E. Ladson Jr. Genealogical and Historical Library 119 Church Street Vidalia, GA 30474

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. In the FamilySearch Catalog do a title search for "Inventory of the county archives of Georgia."

Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library 135 North Broad Street Thomasville, Georgia 31792 USA Telephone: 229-226-9640 Fax: 229-226-3199 E-mail: [mailto:glibrary@rose.net glibrary@rose.net] Internet: Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library


 * Good collection of southern states family history material including Florida.

Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Moultrie-Colquitt County Library 204 5th Street, S.E. Moultrie, Georgia 31768 USA Telephone: 229-985-6540 E-mail: [mailto:mccls@mccls.org mccls@mccls.org] Internet: Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library


 * Emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection including Florida.

Societies

 * Georgia Genealogical Society P.O. Box 38066 Atlanta, GA 30334