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About the parents of James Edward Oglethorpe, colonizer of Georgia, and how they played a part in history.


History of the Oglethorpe Family of Yorkshire
Note: Georgia Pioneers has colonial land grants, baptisms, births and deaths of many Colonials, as well as sketches of the first settlers from "The Ann", what happened to them, and so on. The "Colonial Georgians" book by Jeannette Holland Austin has been added as databases. Many of the genealogies available to members of Georgia Pioneers have family videos of family members, plantations, origins, family crests, etc. dating back to ca 1300. See List

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List of Videos

  1. Antebellum Athens
  2. Asa Candler, Founder of Coca-Cola
  3. Atlanta. First Settlers
  4. Button Gwinnett
  5. Asa DuBignon Cemetery on Jekyll Island
  6. Early Life of James Oglethorpe
  7. Find the Old Homeplace or Plantation
  8. First Woman Hanged in Georgia
  9. Founder, James Oglethorpe
  10. Historic Brunswick, Georgia
  11. History of the Family of Oglethorpe of Yorkshire
  12. Inman Park, Oldest Atlanta Neighborhood
  13. Irish Convicts
  14. Jacobite Rebellion
  15. Later years of James Oglethorpe
  16. Oglethorpe University
  17. Springvale Park, old Park in Atlanta
  18. St. Andrews Cemetery, Darien
  19. Trolley Cars in Atlanta




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