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E-mail:[1] librarian@swgrl.org
Address:[1]
- Decatur County - Gilbert H. Gragg Library
a Southwest Georgia Regional Library
301 S. Monroe Street
Bainbridge, Georgia 39819
Telephone:[1] 229.248.2665
Fax: 229.248.2670
Hours:[1] Mon 9am-8pm; Tue, Wed, Fri 9am-6pm; Thu 9am-7pm; Sat 9am-4pm.
Google map: Gilbert H. Gragg Library
Internet sites and databases:
- Gilbert H. Gragg Library events, card, calendar, classes, downloadable materials, policies, and Ask a Librarian.
- Georgia Pines Catalog online. Search by keyword, title, author, subject, or series. Also available in WorldCat.
They have very good book, surname folder, genealogy, newspaper, and oral history collections.[2] The genealogy room offers local histories, yearbooks, microfilm of local newspapers, and numerous other helpful resources.[1]
If you cannot find the record you seek through the Gilbert H. Gragg Library, a similar record may be available at one of the following.
Overlapping Collections
- National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.[3]
- National Archives at Atlanta federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty-land, photos, passengers lists, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, and workshops.[4]
- Federal Records Center, Ellenwood, GA., receives federal agency and court records of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
- Georgia Archives, Morrow, is the best place to start family history research in Georgia.[5] Genealogies, county histories, newspapers, tax digests, private papers, church records, cemeteries, Bible records, municipal records, census, maps, land plats, photographs, Georgia Confederate service and pension records, colonial, headright & bounty land grants, land lottery, and Georgia county records.
Similar Collections
- Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room book, map, microfilm and archival collection spans the southeastern USA and East Coast, with some New England, vertical files, surname files, and newspapers. Local history holdings include vertical files, surname files and newspapers.[6]
- Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library, large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA.[7] They have county histories, family histories, will indexes, deeds, military rosters, passenger lists, Atlanta city directories, Georgia censuses 1820-1930, local histories, and newspapers.[8]
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library, Moultrie, emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection.
- Ladson Genealogical Library, Vidalia, primarily a book collection, but their genealogical sources cover the entire Atlantic seaboard.</ref> Also has historic photos and school records of Toombs and Montgomery counties.[9]
- Washington Memorial Library, Macon, one of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.[10] Emphasis on the 13 colonies, American Revolution, and Great Britain.[11]
Neighboring Collections
- Decatur County Clerk of the Probate Court, Bainbridge, county marriages since 1823, and probate records.[12]
- Decatur County Clerk of the Superior Court, Bainbridge, land records, divorces, and court records since 1823.[12]
- Decatur County Historical and Genealogical Society, Bainbridge, Facebook page.
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia, Albany, recent civil, criminal, and bankruptcy case files of Baker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Crisp, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Schley, Seminole Sumter, Terrell, Turner, Webster, and Worth counties.
- Repositories in surrounding counties: in Georgia: Baker, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, in Florida: Gadsden, and Jackson.
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Atlanta, members, meetings, newsletter, surname queries, links.
- Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center, extensive Georgia family and county histories, Sons of the American Revolution library, holdings for North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama genealogy.
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia, Atlanta, family histories, immigration, East Europe, Georgia, North America.
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths, parish records.
- Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library, Newnan, has the best set of family folders in Georgia.
- DeKalb History Center, Decatur, subject files, biographical files, cemetery index, maps, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, memoirs, yearbooks, and Atlanta City and suburban directories.[13]
- Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, 4 million manuscripts, photos, papers, military, diaries, plantation records. They have almost as many genealogical sources as the Georgia Archives.
- Georgia Genealogical Society, Atlanta, events, meetings, membership, publications and index, and research tools, but no library. They provide advice, but do not conduct research for you.
- Georgia Salzburger Society, Rincon, histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories.[14]
- University of Georgia Main Library, Athens, largest collection for early Georgia settlers. Also, they hold county histories, county records, family records, biographies and newspapers.
- Repositories in other surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records pertaining to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many Georgia Archives microfilms are also available at branch FamilySearch Centers in local church buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and described in their online FamilySearch Catalog.[15]
- Dallas Public Central Library 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states, and online databases including Georgia and other Southern states.[16]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Decatur County - Gilbert H. Gragg Library in Southwest Georgia Regional Library (accessed 14 January 2016).
- ↑ William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 33. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 2.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 127-28.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 33.
- ↑ Athens-Clark County Library Heritage Room in Athens Regional Library System (accessed 25 January 2016).
- ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 33. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ Special Collections in Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (accessed 8 January 2016).
- ↑ Ladson Genealogical Library in Ohoopee Regional Library System (accessed 8 Janary 2016)
- ↑ William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 33. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ The Genealogical and Historical Room in Middle Georgia Regional Library (accessed 17 January 2016).
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Handybook for Genealogists (Logan, Utah : Everton Publishers Inc, 1999), 85. WorldCat 670125599; FHL Book 973 D27e 1999.
- ↑ Collections in DeKalb History Center (accessed 11 September 2015).
- ↑ Living History Museum in Visit Ebenezer (accessed 11 September 2015).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 1.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.
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