Washington County, Georgia
Named for George Washington
County Seat is Sandersville
Laid Out in 1784

Book Sale: Genealogical Publishing Company is offering the Records of Washington County, Georgia for only $10.95! That's 51% off the regular price. "This work is a tremendously useful collection of genealogical data as it is a blend of records from sources other than the courthouse. County residents are listed under one or more of the following categories: headrights and bounty grants (important because Washington County was one of only two Georgia counties where bounty grants were made to soldiers of the Revolution), 1805 lottery registrants, 1832 lottery fortunate drawers, 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses, surveyors' records, military records, marriages, poor school records, tax defaulters, and early settlers. The index, specially compiled for this reprint edition, has references to about 12,000 persons."

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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!

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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Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia
The compilers of this work extracted data found in wills, deeds, tax digests, court minutes, voters' lists, newspapers, and other contemporary records--records roughly contemporaneous with the 1790 census--and they have identified about 15,000 Georgians who were living at the time of the 1790 census, thus creating a "reconstructed" census from substitute records.

Records of Washington County, Georgia
This work is a tremendously useful collection of genealogical data as it is a blend of records from sources other than the courthouse. County residents are listed under one or more of the following categories: headrights and bounty grants (important because Washington County was one of only two Georgia counties where bounty grants were made to soldiers of the Revolution), 1805 lottery registrants, 1832 lottery fortunate drawers, 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses, surveyors' records, military records, marriages, poor school records, tax defaulters, and early settlers. The index, specially compiled for this reprint edition, has references to about 12,000 persons. Only $10.95! That's 51% off the regular price. For a limited time.

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Washington County, Georgia American History & Genealogy Project

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