Welcome to the City of
Swainsboro!!!!
EMANUEL COUNTY
Judge Don E. Wilkes
PO Box 70
Swainsboro, GA 30401
478-237-7091/F 237-2633
[has Probate Records from 1812
and Marriage Records from 1812 ]
Jennie Hodges from the Probate Office will do a search/copy for folks
if they can give the ancestor's approximate age and tell her what document they
are looking for. She, of course will not do a search for "everything on
John Doe."
Please include $4
per copy of Certified copies of records requested from the Probate Office.
Requests for Non Certified copies are 25 cents per copy plus postage.
Superior Court
201 W. Main St.
Phone: (478) 237-8911
Fax: (478) 237-1220
[has Court Records from 1810
and Land Records from 1812 ]
Vital Records [Birth &
Death Records from 1919-Present ] [Order
Online] [Social
Security Death Index]
(see
Georgia
Division of Public Health Vital Records Department,
Two Peachtree Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30303-3186; Tel: 404-657-2700, [EMAIL]
Georgia
State Archives 5800 Jonesboro Road Morrow, GA 30260; 678.364.3700
For history, genealogy,
or other research: Reference Services Tel: (678) 364-3710,
[EMAIL]
Georgia Historical
Society 501 Whittaker Str,
Georgia
Genealogical Society
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The 1812 act creating Emanuel County named Edward Lane,
Francis Pugh, Needham Cox, Eli Whitdon, and Uriah Anderson as commissioners to select a county seat,
which the law directed "be as near the centre of said county as
convenience will admit" (Ga. Laws 1812, p. 82).A year later, Emanuel
County did not have a county seat, so on Nov. 18, 1814, the legislature added
Jesse Mezzle and Archibald Culberth
as commissioners and directed that the county seat be within one mile of the
place identified by Jesse Mezzle as the center of the
county. When the expanded commission was unable to select a site for the county
seat, the legislature on Dec. 6, 1813 named Joshua Wood, Travis Thigpen, Jesse
Price, John Wolf, and Gideon Hose as new commissioners and directed them to
purchase 50-100 acres "which shall be as near the centre of said county as
practicable" (Ga. Laws 1813, p. 32). If the commissioners could not agree
on a site, the justices of the county's inferior court were directed to appoint
a fit and proper person to determine the center of Emanuel County.At
some point in 1814, the commissioners selected the
site that would later become Swainsboro as the location of the county seat.
In an act of
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Atlanta History Center-Library/Archives
John E. Ladson, Jr.
Genealogical Library located
in Vidalia, Georgia now as a web site. The library is a wonderful resource for
the Middle and Southeast Georgia areas.
Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library
- Family Tree Online - Scottish Clan information
Moultrie-Colquitt
County Library – About the Library
P.O. Box 1110
Tel: 912-985-6540
Fax: 912-985-0936
E-mail: jenkinsm@mail.colquitt.public.lib.ga.us
Attn: Ann Buxton, Genealogy Dept.
478-237-7791
fax:
478-237-3553 Visit the Genealogy Room!
Statesboro-Bulloch
County Regional Library
Phone: (912) 764-1341; (912) 764-1340 (Genealogy Department)
FAX: (912) 764-1350
Janice Strickland is the contact person for
the Statesboro-Bulloch Co. Regional Library and is extremely helpful with any
of your genealogical questions. They have
an excellent Genealogy Department including but not limited to quite a large
collection of materials for those who are researching their family
history. It is well worth a visit.
Georgia Department of Archives & History
Middle Georgia Regional
Library - Genealogy & History
Room
Statesboro-Bulloch
County Regional Library - Contact: Janice Strickland
Georgia
Public Library Service
DAR
- Adam Brinson Chapter
Peggy Weatherford
478-763-2077
DAR
- Governor David Emanuel Chapter
Rebecca
Hill, Regent
GAEMANUE-L@rootsweb.com
Our mailing list includes Candler, Emanuel, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson,
Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Tattnall, and Washington Counties.
You can subscribe to the list in
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American Memories - Library Of Congress Historical Collections for the National Digital
Library
Books We Own - A Look-Up Resource for International Genealogical Research—Great Site with lots of books!!!
Crackers
Houses ----
Photographed by JOHN L. HANCOCK of Swainsboro, Georgia and includes a bit of
historical perspective by Audrey (Shields) Hancock.
First Methodist Church, Swainsboro
Emanuel County
- Georgia Place Names
Christopher Boyd's
Wiregrass Roots
Edenfield Genealogical Society -- Many Emanuel County Family lineage's are in the EGS database.
Swainsboro Emanuel
County Chamber of Commerce
Military Links - we've collected so many GREAT
military links for the wars, they just had to have their own page! A lot of
outstanding Civil War Sites.
History
& Archaeology of Georgia -- from
the Georgia Encyclopaedia – GREAT SITE!!!
Church Directory of the United
States
Sons Of
the Spanish American War Veterans
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on
the Internet-Georgia
Emanuel
County Historical Maps
UGA Hargrett Library Rare Maps Collection
Library of Congress
Map Collection
Hall's 1895
County Map of Georgia
Maps for the Northeastern States
Genealogy
Classifieds – This is a
website for societies, authors and regular genealogists to buy and sell their
genealogy books. It has no cost to anyone and is not a commercial site. No income comes from this site. It is just a free
service that I hope will help others, as well as myself, find some of these
hard to find and out of print books.
My Census Maps - Links to rotating animated maps showing all the county boundries for each census year overlayed
with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundries. See also My County Maps and Genealogy Atlas
USGenWeb Archives Census Project
Vital Records Information for Georgia
A Barrel Of Genealogy Links Over 300 genealogical links!
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Publications
PH (888) 705-4887
(toll-free)
FAX: (316) 685-6650
E-mail: genie@skpub.com
Transcribed
by Mary Brooks
If
you find any broken links please contact Nancy Gay Crawford.