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Note: The research room is open to the public whenever the museum is open. There is always somebody at the museum who will be glad to assist you while you and your friends search intriguing historical documents. Theses documents and other references are included below.

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Census Information

 

  • 1864 Census for Re- Organizing The Georgia Militia
    • By: Nancey J. Correll
  • 1864 General Sherman's Census of Atlanta
  • Paulding County- 1850,1870- Federal Census
  • Parsons - 1880 Census
    • Vol. 1 - Alabama thru Montana
  • Parsons - 1880 Census
    • Vol. 2 - Nebraska thru Wyoming

 

Barke County- 1850
Bryan County- 1870
Calhoun County- 1860
Camden County- 1820-1850
Campbell County- 1830- 1860, 1864
Carroll County- 1830-1860 ( Note: Includes taxes, maps, cemeteries)
Cass County-1834
Charlton County- 1860
Chattanooga County-1850
Cherokee County-1834,1850
Clark County- 1850
Clay County- 1860
Clinch County- 1850
Cobb County- 1834,1840-1850
Cowetta County-1850
Dawson County-1860
Decatur County- 1830, 1850
Dekalb County-1850-1870
Dooly County-1870
Dougherty County-1870
Early County-1850
Echols County- 1850 ( Note: Includes Slave Schedule)
Effingham County- 1860
Elbert County-1850
Emanuel County-1790,1820-1850
Fannin County-1860
Fayette County-1850
Forsyth County-1834, 1840-1860, 1863, 1880
Franklin County- 1820,1850,1920
Gilmer County-1834, 1840
Glynn County- 1850
Green County-1850
Gwinnett County 1820-1830,1850
Hall County-1850
Haralson County-1860-1870
Hancock County- 1830-1850
Henry County- 1850
Heard County- 1840-1850
Irwin County-1860
Jackson County- 1850-1860
Jasper County 1820,1850-1860
Jefferson County-1820-1860
Johnson County-1860
Lee County-1850
Lincoln County-1830-1850
Lumpkin County- 1834,1850
Newton County-1860
Madison County-1840,1860
McIntosh County-1830
Meriwether County-1870
Mitchell County-1860
Monroe County-1850-1860
Morgan County-1850
Murray County- 1834
Oglethorpe County-1850-1860
Paulding County-1860
Pickens County- 1860
Pierce County-1860
Pike County-1850
Randolph County-1830
Richmond County-1830-1840
Stewart County-1850
Sumter County-1860
Telfair County-1830,1860
Thomas County-1830-1850
Troup County-1850
Twiggs County-1830-1850
Union County-1850-1860 ( Note: White and Slave)
Walker County-1870
Walton County-1850
Warren County-1840-1860
Washington County-1820-1870
Wayne County-1820,1840-1860
Wilkes County-1850

 


Cemeteries Of Georgia

 

Counties
Counties
Counties
Counties
Counties
  • Appling
  • Atkinson
  • Bacon
  • Baker
  • Bank
  • Barrow
  • Bartow
  • Ben Hill
  • Berrien
  • Bibb
  • Bleckley
  • Brantley
  • Brooks
  • Bryan
  • Bulloch
  • Burke
  • Butts
  • Calhoun
  • Camden
  • Campbell
  • Candler
  • Carroll
  • Cass
  • Catoosa
  • Charlton
  • Chatham
  • Chattahoochee
  • Chattooga
  • Cherokee
  • Clarke
  • Clay
  • Clayton
  • Clinch
  • Cobb
  • Coffee
  • Colquitt
  • Columbia
  • Cook
  • Coweta
  • Crawford
  • Crisp
  • Dade
  • Dawson
  • Decatur
  • Dekalb
  • Dodge
  • Dougherty
  • Douglas
  • Early
  • Echols
  • Effingham
  • Elbert
  • Emanuel
  • Evans
  • Fannin
  • Fayette
  • Floyd
  • Forsyth
  • Franklin
  • Fulton
  • Gilmer
  • Glascock
  • Glynn
  • Gordon
  • Grady
  • Greene
  • Gwinnett
  • Habersham
  • Hall
  • Hancock
  • Haralson
  • Harris
  • Hart
  • Heard
  • Henry
  • Houston
  • Irwin
  • Jackson
  • Jones
  • Lamar
  • Lanier
  • Laurens
  • Lee
  • Liberty
  • Lincoln
  • Long
  • Lowndes
  • Lumpkin
  • Macon
  • Madison
  • Marion
  • McDuffie
  • McIntosh
  • Meriwether
  • Miller
  • Milton
  • Mitchell
  • Monroe
  • Montgomery
  • Morgan
  • Murray
  • Muscogee
  • Newton
  • Oconee
  • Oglethorpe
  • Paulding
  • Peach
  • Pickens
  • Pierce
  • Pike
  • Polk
  • Pulaski
  • Putnam
  • Quitman
  • Rabun
  • Randolph
  • Richmond
  • Rockdale
  • Schley
  • Screven
  • Seminole
  • Spalding
  • Stephens
  • Stewart
  • Sumter
  • Talbot
  • Taliaferro
  • Tattnall
  • Taylor
  • Telfair
  • Terrell
  • Thomas
  • Tift
  • Toombs
  • Towns
  • Treutlen
  • Troup
  • Turner
  • Twiggs
  • Union
  • Upson
  • Walker
  • Walton
  • Ware
  • Warren
  • Washington
  • Wayne
  • Webster
  • Wheeler
  • White
  • Whitfield
  • Wilcox
  • Wilkes
  • Wilkinson
  • Worth





 
 
   


  • Some Confederate Soldiers
  • Native, Marietta National Cemetery
  • Buying Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries
    • Laurens County South Carolina - Vol. 1
      • By: Laurens District Chapter- South Carolina Genealogy Society

 



History

 

  • The Heritage of Paulding County Georgia
    • 1832-1999
      • By: Paulding County Historical Society
  • The Historic Lost Mountain Store
    • By: Independent Bank & Trust Company
  • Paulding County Georgia
    • It's people and Places Vol. 1, 2
      • By: W.A. Foster, Jr.
  • The History of Georgia
    • Second Edition
      • By: Kenneth Coleman general editor
  • A History of Paulding County
    • By: Lucien E. Robert
  • A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County
    • By: Franees Taliaferro Thomas
  • Buffalo County
    • A Pictorial History
      • By: Mary Ann Pattison
  • History of Titus County, Texas
    • By: Traylor Russell
  • Historical Collections of Georgia
    • By: Rev. George White, M.A.
  • Bicentennial History of Newberry County, South Carolina
    • By: Newberry County Historical Society
  • A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio 1795-1876
    • By: Hervey Scott
  • A History of Rowan County, North Carolina
    • By: Rev. Jethro Rumple
  • A History of Union County, South Carolina
    • By: Union County Historical Foundation
  • History of Coweta County, Georgia
    • By: Newnan-Coweta Historical Society
  • The Dead Towns of Georgia
    • By: Charles C. Jones Jr.
  • The Heritage of Carroll County Georgia
    • 1826-2001
      • By: The Carroll County Heritage Book Committee and County Heritage, Inc.
  • The Heritage of Polk County Georgia
    • 1851-2001
      • By: Polk County Heritage Committee
  • The Heritage of Cherokee County, Alabama
    • By: Heritage Book Committee of Cherokee County, Alabama
  • The Heritage of Transylvania County North Carolina 1995
    • By: Transylvania County North Carolina Book Committee
  • History of Adair County Oklahoma
    • Includes Flint and Goingsnake Districts
      • By: Adair County Historical Committee
  • Who was Who in Dekalb County Alabama
    • Vol. 1-3
      • By: Elizabeth S. Howard

  • The Paulding County also has many family histories/genealogy information including Family Tree Maker CD's for public viewing .

 



Genealogical Information


  • The Ragsdale Family
    • By: Mrs. Blake Ragsdale Van Leer
  • Roots of the Rich and Famous
    • By: Michael P. Higgins
  • Lineage Charts, South Carolina Genealogy Society
    • Vol. 1-6
      • By: South Carolina Genealogical Society
  • John Collins of Virginia and Kentucky Genealogy and Descendants - 1774-1988
    • Compiled by: Helen Taylor (Collins) Hadden
  • Generations
    • A Documentary History of the Family of Michael Joseph Dasinger- Vol. 2
      • By: Dr. Norman R. Dasinger
  • Citizens and Immigrants, South Carolina - 1768
    • Compiled by: Mary Bondurant Warren
  • Ancestors of Mary Hawkins (Notebook)
    • Vol. 1-2
      • By: Martha Irwin
  • Gann Registry (Notebook)
    • Vol. 1-2 Index
      • By: Gann Family Historical Society
  • Diggin' Up Bones - 1992
    • Vol. 1 - Jones and Mountain with allied families
      • Compiled by: Keith L. Henderson
  • Holland
    • By: Jeanette Holland Austin
  • Descendants of George Washington Loudermilk
    • By: Raymond H. and Aline "Loudermilk" Quenon
  • Adair History and Genealogy
    • By: James Barnett Adair, M.D. (1924)

 



Native American History

 

  • Trail of Tears
  • The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
    • By: John Ehle
  • Indian Givers
  • How The Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
  • By: Jack Weatherford
  • Murray County's Indian Heritage
    • By: Murray County Historical Society
  • Indian Affairs
    • Provided by the Library Of Congress




Land/Deed Information

 

  • Old Campbell County Georgia
    • Land Records 1828-1854
    • Deed Book A, C, D, and E
      • By: Joan Turbyfield Westmoreland, Freda Reid Turner, and Willis O. Westmoreland
  • Campbell County Georgia
    • Superior Court Deeds and Mortgages Grantee- Granter Index
    • 1829-1931
  • Oglethorpe County Georgia
    • Deed Book A-J
    • 1794 -1809
      • By: Michael Mortin Farner




Marriage Records

 

  • Coweta County ( Note: Some Cemeteries)
  • Cherokee Nation -1884-1901
  • North Carolina--Pasquotank, Perquimans, Piney Woods, and Suttons Creek -1677-1800 (Note: Includes Monthly meetings)
  • Paulding County -1833-1899
  • Randolph County Alabama Marriages
  • Quaker Marriage Certificates
    • Delaware County
    • Chester County - Pennsylvania 1704-1799 ( Note: Includes New Garden Monthly Meetings)
  • Some Georgia Marriages
    • Baldwin thru Cobb Counties
    • Columbia thru Irwin Counties
    • Jackson thru Morgan Counties
    • Muscogee thru Washington Counties
  • South Carolina
  • Cobb & Georgia 1885-1937
    • Index
      • By: Grooms
  • Haralson County, Georgia marriage Records 1856-1940
    • Compiled by: Elizabeth Robertson



Military Records

  • Action in the South Atlantic
    • The Saga of Esso Baton Rouge and S.S. Oklahoma
      • By: Michael P. Higgins
  • The Civil War
    • Strange & Fascinating Facts
      • By: Barke Davis
  • Black Southern In Confederate Armies
    • A Collection of Historical Accounts
      • By: J.H. Segars and Charles Kelly Barrow
  • Hardtack & Coffee
    • The Unwritten Story of Army Life
      • By: John D. Billings
  • Secession Debated
    • Georgia's Showdown in 1860
      • By: William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson
  • The Historical Markers of North Georgia
    • By: Kenneth W. Reyd
  • Civil War Handbook
    • By: William H. Price
  • Bicentennial
    • American Revolution
  • Washington Goes To War
    • By: David Brinkley
  • Georgia Confederate 7,000
    • New Research: Army of Tennessee
      • By: Gary Ray Goochen, SR.
  • Civil War Prisons
    • By: William B Hesseltine
  • Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861- 1865
    • Index
  • Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861- 1865
    • Vol. 1 - 6
      • By: Lillian Henderson
  • The Civil War
    • By: Earl Schenek Miers
  • Marine
    • By: Tom Clarey
  • The Jolly Rogers
    • By: Tom Blackburn
  • Inside Force Recon
    • Recon Marines in Vietnam
      • By: Michael Lee Lannings and Ray William Stubbed
  • The Campaign For Atlanta
    • By: William R. Scaife
  • A History of Passenger Aircraft
    • By: William Sweetmen
  • Colonel Ship & Passenger Lists
  • Sinking of the Rohina
    • By: Dan Fortune
  • 17th Century Colonial Ancestors
    • Compiled by: Mary Louise Marshall Hutton

 


Other References

 

  • Pennsylvania German Pioneers
    • Vol. 1-3, 1727-1808
      • By: Ralph Beaver Strassburger
  • Garden Gateways
    • 1961- 1968
  • Scenic South
    • 1967-1968
  • Sid's Book
    • 1917-1986
  • Engineering & Technical Data Handbook
    • Vol. 4
      • By: Salo- Lowell Shops
  • List of Georgia Pensioners On The United States Rolls
    • Jan. 1 1883
  • Getting to Know Your Watershed
    • 2001
  • Schooldays
    • Then & Now
      • By: Mrs. Karen Robertson First Grade
  • Seven Springs Sampler
    • Herb Recipes from Historic Homes of Powder Springs
      • By: Sarah Frances Miller
      • By: Susan Knight Housa Smith
  • The Iron Man of Georgia
    • Biography
      • By: Mark Anthony
  • South Carolina Jury List - 1718-1783
    • Compiled by: Mary Bondurant Warren
  • Laurens County, South Carolina "The Scrapbook"
    • By: Laurens County Historical Society and Lauren County Arts Council
  • Dictionary of American Names
    • By: Elsdon C. Smith
  • Macon Georgia Journal & Messenger
    • January 1855-December 1857
  • The Paulding County Museum also has a broad range of maps, magazines, and microfilms.
  • Local Church information and history is also located in the research room.



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