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Great Historical Source
This book gives readers an accurate account of the History of Montgomery County, Georgia.It includes old pictures and maps and the names of the early founders.Great source for Genealogical research. ... Read more

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This is a definitive list of the German-speaking inhabitants of colonial Georgia.Composed of Salzburgers from Austria, Palatines from the southern Rhineland, Swabians fromthe Territory of Ulm, and Swiss, the so-called Georgia "Dutch" represented the largest ethnicgroup in Georgia in the mid-18th century. Their descendants are today scattered throughout thefifty states.

In this revised edition of his classic account of The Germans of Colonial Georgia, George Jones,emeritus professor of German and the preeminent authority on the German-speaking populationof colonial Georgia, has distilled a lifetime of research into a single alphabetical list of some3,500 Germans. While the descriptions of the colonists vary, most of them give theman/woman's German-speaking region of origin and one or more dates of record in Georgia.Many of the descriptions also disclose some of the following: the name of a parent, spouse,offspring, or sibling; date of marriage, death or date departed from Georgia; name of vesseltraveled upon; and an indication as to sponsor, legatee, or servant. Professor Jones has alsoeliminated the confusion stemming from the frequently garbled versions of colonial Germannames by putting both the colonist's family name and given name in the correct Germanform--something that will greatly expedite gathering additional information about the immigrantin European archives. For this revised edition of the work, Mr. Jones has added many new namesthat have come to light from recent research. He has also solved a number of cases of what herefers to as "fission and fusion," that is to say, proving in some cases that a single namerepresents two persons, while in other cases demonstrating that two names represented but asingle person. The work concludes with a very helpful index to 18th-century place names ofGermanic Europe. ... Read more

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Pubisher's Synopsys of the 2006 reprint edition by Clearfield Publishing.
This is a list not only of the early settlers of Georgia but of the first settlers of Georgia, and it is apparently a complete list of all those who were sent by the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America under Oglethorpe and the Earl of Egmont. Based on the Egmont manuscripts, now in the possession of the University of Georgia, this list of settlers is given under two headings: first, those who went from Europe to Georgia at the Trustees' expense; and, second, those who went on their own account. Covering the period from 1732 to 1741, these two lists together contain the names and details of 3,000 immigrants, most of whom were assigned lots in Savannah and Frederica and a good number of whom would soon leave the colony for the Carolinas.

Information pertaining to each settler consists, generally, of name, age, occupation, place of origin, names of spouse, children and other family members, dates of embarkation and arrival, place of settlement, and date of death. In addition, some of the more notorious aspects of the settlers' lives are recounted in brief, telltale sketches, which enable the researcher to divine something of the character of the colony and the times.

The Clearfield edition includes E. Merton Coulter's invaluable article on the first shipload of Georgia settlers who sailed on the Anne, 16 November 1732, which was appended to the second printing of Early Settlers in 1967. ... Read more

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This is a collection of 283 genealogies which Mrs. Austin compiled over a period oftwenty years as a professional genealogist. Taken as a whole, it represents a cross-section ofpioneer Georgia families, and its publication is intended to assist others researching these samefamilies.

Although the earliest Georgia settlers were brought in by General Oglethorpe in 1733, themajority of the settlers--from Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, arrived afterthe Revolution, taking up bounty grants, joining in the land lotteries, and settling landssurrendered in the Indian treaties. While this work deals with some of Oglethorpe's settlers, thevast majority of the genealogies deal with Georgians who descend from settlers from otherstates.

The following is a partial list of the families covered: Adair, Appling, Ashe, Ashmore, Austin,Aycock, Ayres, Bagwell, Bealle, Benton, Blackstock, Bloodworth, Blount, Boatright, Bone,Bonnell, Boyett, Brantley, Brooke, Buckner, Burney, Burrell, Camp, Carmichael, Catching,Cauley, Chaffin, Chambliss, Chaney, Clements, Cliatt, Cofer, Coffey, Corley, Cowan, Danielly,Dupree, Durden, Earnest, Edmonson, Etheridge, Few, Fordham, Futch, Gay, Gee,Groover-Gruber, Habersham, Hagin, Hansford, Hardyman, Harrell, Heard, Hiers, Hillhouse,Huckaby, Hufstetler, Jarrard, Kimbrough, Knighton, Lamar, Lanier, Lavender, Layfield,Leggett, Lightner, Loggins, McCorquodale, Mackgehee, McGruder, McMichael, Means,Milledge, Orr, Paulk, Peavy, Peek, Phinizy, Rae, Rich, Shiflet, Stallsworth, Stegall, Stucki,Surrency, Tankersley, Tapley, Tekle, Tennille, Tindall, Tomlin, Trotman, Veal, Vickers, Waller,Wheeless, Whisenant, Whiteside, Whitlow, Winfrey, Womack, Wooten, Wynne, andYoungblood. ... Read more

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In the absence of the 1790, 1800, and 1810 censuses of Georgia, these early tax lists are a godsend, standing in as almost perfect substitutes for the missing enumerations and in many ways improving on the detail found in most old census records. The counties for which tax records are provided, with their years of coverage, are as follows:

Camden 1794, 1809
Chatham 1806
Glynn 1790, 1794
Hancock 1812
Lincoln 1818
Montgomery 1797, 1798, 1805, 1806
Pulaski 1818
Richmond 1818
Warren 1794, 1805, 1818
Wilkes 1792, 1793, 1794

For each tax list a great deal of information is provided that cannot be found in any other record source. For example, each tax list generally gives the name of the taxpayer, the name of the adjoining property owner, and the name of the original grantee of land--information impossible to find in a census record and of the utmost importance in genealogical research. In addition, though less relevant genealogically, the tax lists identify the number of slaves attached to the property, the watercourses, the acreage, and the value of the land.

Valuable as they are, when these lists were originally compiled and published by Georgia State Historian Ruth Blair in 1926, they were not published with an index and were almost impossible to use. A dozen years later, however, a new State Historian, Mrs. J. E. Hays, prepared a complete index to all 25,000 taxpayers and adjoining property owners and published it as a 1938 W.P.A. project. The two parts, the 1926 Digests and the 1938 Index, are finally united in this reprint edition which can now claim to be the foremost source in early Georgia genealogy. To the genealogist searching for his Georgia roots, this is the true starting point of any serious research. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia is a statewide census of all white males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not at the time in the service of the Confederate States of America. Based on a law passed by the Georgia Legislature in December 1863 to provide for the protection of women, children, and invalids living at home, it is a list of some 42,000 men--many of them exempt from service--who were able to serve in local militia companies and perform such homefront duties as might be required of them.

In accordance with the law, enrollment lists were drawn up bycounties and within counties by militia districts. Each one of the42,000 persons enrolled was listed by his full name, age, occupation,place of birth, and reason (if any) for his exemption fromservice. Sometime between 1920 and 1940 the Georgia Pension and RecordDepartment typed up copies of these lists. Names on the typed lists,unlike most of the originals, are in alphabetical order, and it isthese typed lists which form the basis of this new work by Mrs. NancyCornell.

Checking the typed lists against the original handwritten records on microfilm in the Georgia Department of Archives & History, Mrs. Cornell was able to add some information and correct certain misspellings. She also points out that no lists were found for the counties of Burke, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dooly, Emanuel, Irwin, Johnson, Pulaski, and Wilcox.

This is a supurb and totally unique body of information, virtually unknown to all but the most experienced Georgia genealogists. It is available now in print for the first time, and with a single alphabetical index! ... Read more

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This work contains abstracts of the intestate records of the fifty-seven Georgiacounties formed before the 1832 Land Lottery, plus those for Fulton (1853), White (1857),Dawson (1857), and Webster (1853) counties. The material was extracted from such records asletters of administration, guardianship bonds, administrators' bonds, minutes of the InferiorCourt, loose and original papers, minutes of the Court of Ordinary, Superior Court minutes,writs, and miscellaneous estate papers.Besides the name of the deceased and the dates of the various court papers, information in theabstracts includes the names of the administrators, sureties and guardians (often relatives of thedeceased), names of the surviving spouse and children, the names of orphan children and heirs,and, where a will is recorded, the names of the legatees. An ambitious and successful attempt toorganize a great deal of previously hard-to-find information! ... Read more