What's What: Georgia Genealogy Research Records

Books and Special Collections
by Jeannette Holland Austin

• The Austin Collection: Genealogy Notes
• Books
• City Directories
• Plantations

Churches and Cemeteries

• Cemetery Databases
• Church Rolls
• Obituaries 1740-1935

Colonial

• Passenger Lists
• Genealogy data of Individual Scottish Clans in the Highlands
• Highlanders in Georgia
• The Darien Scheme
• Moravians in Georgia 1735-1740: Diary of Nitschman

Court House Records

• Lunatics
• Orphans
• Paupers
• Plats
• Wills, Estates

Genealogies

• Ancestor Tracer by County
• Biographies of 1st Settlers
• 1,500+ Genealogies
• Genealogy Vault - 6000+ Genealogies

Immigrants

• Origins
• Settlers

Maps, Tips & Reference

• Maps
• Research Tips

Marriage Records

• Most counties

Military

• Civil War
• Georgia Militia Records 1774-1838; 1863 Reorganized Militia showing age, where born, etc.
• Revolutionary War: misc. pensions
• War of 1812
• World War I and II

Native Indians

• Cherokees and Creeks

Videos

• Exodus of the Loyalists from Georgia: Series

Vital Records

• Bibles
• Births
• Deaths
• Marriages