Clarke County, Georgia
Named for Gen. Elijah Clarke
County Seat is Athens
Laid Out in 1801

Neighboring Counties:
Jackson ~ Madison ~ Oglethorpe ~ Oconee

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AniMap Plus Version 2.6
Start finding those old towns and counties. Just about every researcher deals with the problem of finding an old town that has long-since disappeared from the map. Or, you have a known location but it was not in the same county 100 or 200 years ago. AniMap Plus now has solutions to these problems. AniMap Plus version 2.6 will display over 2,300 maps to show the changing county boundaries for each of the 48 adjacent United States for every year since colonial times. It includes all years, not just the census years. Maps may be viewed separately, or the program can set them in motion so you can automatically view the boundary changes.

Clarke 1801

Clarke 1924

Annals of Athens, Georgia, 1801-1901
Also includes some genealogies of Athens people and some marriages of Athens people.

Georgia Vital Records: Marriages 1775-1900
This CD contains records from five databases of Georgia marriage records, roughly spanning the years between 1775 and 1900. Each record contains at least two names, making this CD a valuable aid to researchers with Georgia ancestors. Counties included: Baldwin, Bibb, Bulloch, Butts, Camden, Campbell, Carroll, Cass, Chatham, Cherokee, Clarke, Columbia, Coweta, Crawford, Decatur, Dekalb, Early Effingham, Elbert, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Greene, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Harris, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, Laurens, Liberty, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oglethorpe, Pauling, Pike, Pulaski, Putnam, Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, Screven, Stewart, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnal, Telfair, Thomas, Troup, Union, Upson, Walton, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wilkes, and Wilkinson. The CD is indexed and searchable by name, date, place, and keyword or phrase. On Sale NOW!

Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends
Items covered in this volume include Light Horse Harry Lee’s bivouac, the true story of Jefferson Davis’s arrest at Irwinville, the Old Creek Indian Agency, and historical outlines, original settlers, and distinguished residents of the following counties: Appling, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Campbell, Carroll, Catoosa, Charlton, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, DeKalb, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty, Douglas, Early, Echols, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, and Franklin.

Index to Georgia Wills
This is an index to the earliest surviving will books of Georgia counties formed before the 1832 Land Lottery. It is not based on original wills, since many of these have been lost or destroyed, but on verbatim copies of wills found in county will books. Designed to simplify the research process, this index contains the names, in alphabetical order, of about 20,000 testators, the name of the county in which the will was filed, and the designation of the book in which the complete will can be located. A smaller proportion of entries derive from miscellaneous estate records such as appraisals, inventories, divisions, letters of administration, and guardian bonds, and are identified by an appropriate reference.

Index to the United States Census of Georgia for 1820
Genealogists will recognize this work as an index to the earliest complete census of Georgia. This index identifies about 30,000 heads of families, alphabetically arranged, along with their counties of residence.

Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920
The county has always been used as the basic Federal census unit. Genealogical research in the census, therefore, begins with identifying the correct county jurisdictions. This work shows all U.S. county boundaries from 1790 to 1920. On each of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are superimposed over the modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-year intervals. Also included is an essay on available sources for each state's old county lines. With each map there is data on boundary changes, notes about the census, and locality finding keys. There also are inset maps that clarify territorial lines and a state-by-state bibliography of sources. The detail in this work is exhaustive and of such impeccable standards that there is little wonder why this award-winning publication is the number one tool in U.S. census research. One of Genealogical Publishing Company's "Top Ten" Books of 2006.


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