The Georgia Obituaries Database contains 2,000 pages of Names which were taken from the oldest surviving Georgia newspapers.
Anyone searching for their Georgia family should search this alphabetical database listing of deaths. It references birth and death dates, spouses,
children and other pertinent data of interest to the genealogist, and the newspaper is referenced.
The State of Georgia did not maintain death certificates until 1919. However, many
old newspapers did, and these events were thoroughly mixed and scattered throughout each day's paper.
In most cases, you will be able to locate
the article by ordering microfilm from the University of Georgia's wide newspaper
collection, using the inter-library loan system.
Some of these death inscriptions were discovered during the 1960's in old court houses, newspaper offices
and libraries and were extracted by Jeannette Holland Austin. Most of them did not survive.
That makes this extraction a valuable resource.
See Newspapers listing below.
Georgia Pioneers was developed by Jeannette Holland Austin to share information
preserved over a 40-year period. It contains traced genealogies, probate records, confederate deaths,
revolutionary war pensions, cemeteries, obituaries, marriages, census, cherokees, births,
school graduates, etc. Births,
Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries from Georgia Newspapers
