Georgia Ancestors: A Take You By-the-Hand, No-nonsense Guide to Georgia Property Records, Arlene H. Eakle and Linda E. Brinkerhoff
Just finished preparing this manuscript for the printer! Am so excited. Put everything on hold to get it done. What an experience! I invite you to examine the Table of Contents and decided if something there might help jumpstart your research in Georgia.
Table of Contents
Georgia Ancestors: How to Find Them and Prove They Belong toYou
Map: Georgia, 1853
Proof of Relationship—Essential Pedigree Evidence
Property Records—Basic Sources for Georgia Research
Map: Southern United States
Map: Carolina Grant, 1665 and Georgia Grant, 1732
Georgia Jurisdictions and Property Records
Chart: Districts and Towns into Parishes ad Counties
The People Differences: How to Recognize Your Georgia Ancestors
Checklist: Scottish Emigrants to America, David Dobson
Appalachian Triangle Genealogy Research Resources
Scottish Covenanters—Irish Confederates
Map: Cherokee Nation, 1820-1835
Melungeon Names
Tracing Native American Ancestry in the South
Map: Georgia Country, 1748
Map: Distribution of the Races in Georgia, 1850
Map: Slave and Free Territory
Map: The Process of Secession
Map: The Reconstruction Process
Graph: Slaveholders in 1860: White Families
Emancipation Proclamation
Checklist: Georgia Ancestors
Why Tax Records Are a Common Source
Illustration: Camden County 1809 Tax Digest
Georgia Grants by Purchase
Map: Province of Georgia
Georgia State Land Lotteries
How to Use Printed Property Records
Map: Georgia Land Cessions
Map: Rectilinear Surveys
Chart: Georgia Land Lotteries
Map: Georgia’s Original 32 Counties
Counties formed from Headrights and Bounty Lands
Headrights
Map: The Sea Islands
Map: Colonial Towns and Parishes
Chart: Georgia Headright Counties and Land Lots
- 1805 Lottery
- 1807 Lottery
- 1809 Lottery
- 1820 Lottery
- 1821 Lottery
- 1821 Lottery
- 1832 Lottery: Cherokee and Gold Lands
Map: Cherokee Land Lottery
Illustration: Cherokee Land Lottery
Case Study: Neal/ONeal Family, Mrs. Roy Brown
Georgia County and District Lottery Papers
Using Indexes
Glossary of Key Land and Tax Terms
Deeds and Conveyances
“How to Read Old Deeds”
Plantations: Private Jurisdictions
Map: Savannah and Vicinity: Tours and Plantations
American Court Records: Why Court Records are Essential
When the Records Are Gone
Chart Your Genealogy Details as you go
Georgia Court Records
How to Abstract Court Records
Wills, Inventories, and Other Probate Records
Checklist: Georgia Probate (Ordinary Court) Records
Special Considerations and Legalities in Probate Records
How to Abstract Probate Court Records
Illustration: Pauper List
Illustration: Bastardy Bond
Chart: Georgia Court System
Some Georgia Genealogists:
Jeannette Holland Austin
Robert Scott Davis, Jr.
Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.
Mary Bondurant Warren
Map: Georgia Land Owners’ Memorials, 1758-1776
Appendix: How to Find Sources and Records in the Family
History Library Catalog–
With this friendly guide you have what you need to make real breakthroughs on your hard-to-find Georgia ancestors. Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle http://arleneeakle.com
PS I added a patch to up-date my version of Windows so I could open email attachments. I did the patch correctly. Everything seemed to be working fine. Then I tried to access Firefox. UGH! Windows won’t allow it. Now what? Did tell you that I tried to register for a basic computer class at the trade tech nearby–they don’t teach one. So I called the high school. They don’t teach one. So I called the Family History Center (now called FamilySearch Center) across the street. They put my name on the list for a basic class. I was the only registrant. They don’t teach a class either. What is a great genealogist to do? I can’t even access my Home Page.
PPS I can access my email and my post office box and my FAX machine–they are all listed on my Home Page–so if you are okay with going to my Home Page–you can order a copy of our new Georgia Ancestors. And I will send you a copy at the new book price of $35.00. (It will be $45.00 mid-October)
PPSS I will also have copies at the Friends of Clayton Library Seminar, Saturday 27 August 2011, at St Luke’s United Methodist Church, 3471 Westheimer Rd, Houston TX at 10:00 am. Can you believe? They have so many registrations for that event–all on Southern Research!–that they had to move the seminar to a bigger place where they could accomodate you-all. And I am excited about that too.
Just would like a basic course on using the computer and trouble-shooting very basic problems caused when I add a patch to update.