Hall County, Georgia Genealogy

United States

Georgia

Hall County

Guide to Hall County, Georgia ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

County Facts County seat: Gainesville Organized: December 15, 1818 Parent County(s): Cherokee Indian Lands. Neighboring Counties Banks  • Barrow  • Dawson  • Forsyth  • Gwinnett  • Habersham  • Jackson  • Lumpkin  • White See County Maps Courthouse Location Map Adoption This page is available for adoption

County Information

Description

The County was named for Dr. Lyman Hall, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Georgia as both colony and state. The County is located in the north central area of the state.

County Courthouse

Hall County Courthouse
116 Spring Street East
Gainesville, Ga 30501-3765
Phone: 770-531-7025
Hall County Website

Clerk Superior Court has divorce and court records from 1900 and land records from 1819.
Probate Court has marriage and probate records.

Hall County, Georgia Record Dates

Information for this chart was taken from various sources, often containing conflicting dates. This information should be taken as a guide and should be verified by contacting the county and/or the state government agency.

Known Beginning Dates for Major County Records
Birth*	Marriage	Death*	Court	Land	Probate	Census
1919	1819	1919	1900	1819	1819	1820
Statewide registration of births and death began in 1919. General compliance for births by 1928 and deaths by 1922.

Record Loss

1851 - The town and courthouse at Gainsville burned 20 December 1851, but residents carried the records to safety. 1882 - On 2-3 January 1882 the new courthouse burned, but country records were saved. 1932 - Two tornadoes devastated the town killing 200 and injuring 1,000 on 6 April 1936. The courthouse roof was ripping off and second floor torn away, but once again the county records survived. No records were lost in these three disasters.

Boundary Changes

1818--Hall County was created 15 December 1818 from Cherokee Indian Lands. County seat: Gainesville For animated maps illustrating Georgia county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Georgia County Boundary Maps" (1758-1932) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Populated Places

Hall County comprises the Gainesville, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also part of the Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, GA Combined Statistical Area.

For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Cities
Buford Flowery Branch	Gainesville (county seat) Gillsville	Lula Oakwood
Towns
Braselton Clermont	Rest Haven
Unincorporated communities
Belmont Brookton Candler	Chestnut Mountain Chicopee Klondike	Murrayville New Holland

Resources

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Hall, Georgia online and in print
Tombstone Transcriptions Online	Findagrave.com GAGenWeb GAGenWeb Archives Tombstone Project Billion Graves
TombstoneTranscriptions in Print (Often more complete)	Family History Library WorldCat
List of Cemeteries in the County	Findagrave.com Billion Graves Hall County Cemeteries Georgia Cemetery Records
See Georgia Cemeteries for more information

The following web site may have additional information on Hall County cemeteries.

• Interment.net Georgia cemetery records

Church Records

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about Georgia denominations, see the Georgia Church Records wiki page.

Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups

African Americans

• 1866-1895 - Hall County Colored Marriage Index 1866-1895. Batch M713005 at FamilySearch - free.

Land and Property Records

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Georgia Land and Property for additional information about early Georgia land grants from the government. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions (generally buying and selling deeds) were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.

Online Records

• 1842 - 1847 Deeds - Index to Deed Book F, 1842-1847 Georgia Pioneers.com ($)

Local Histories

Local histories are available for Hall County, Georgia Genealogy. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Georgia Local Histories.

• Chicopee, Georgia. New York: Doyle, Kitchen & McCormick, Inc., 1927. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Maps and Gazetteers

Click a neighboring county
for more resources

• Maps of Georgia (1758-1932)

Military Records

• Georgia USGenWeb Archives Project

Civil War

Online Records

• 1861-1865 - Georgia Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index
• 1861-1865 - Georgia Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index
• 1861-1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
• 1861-1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry— index (free)
• 1867-1868 Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868 at FamilySearch — index
• 1879-1920 Georgia, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1879-1920 at FamilySearch — index

Regiments. Service men in Hall County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Hall County:

- 24th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate), Companies G and I

- 27th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate), Company D

- 28th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate), Company D

- 35th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate), Company H

- 43rd Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate), Companies F and K

- 55th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate) , Company D

- 56th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate), Company D

• Dorsey, James Edward. 1991. The History of Hall County, Georgia. Gainesville, Ga: Magnolia Press. (Vol 1 page 55; Vol. 2 page 33-34) 975.8272 H2d
• McRay, Sybil Wood. 1990. This 'n That: History of Hall County, Georgia; history, genealogy, personalities, Bible records. Gainesville, Georgia: Chestatee Regional Library. (page 106) 975.8272 H28m
• Jones, Patricia K. 2003. Confederate Veterans of Hall County, Georgia. Oakwood, Ga. (P.O. Box 953, Oakwood 30566): P.K. Jones. (entire book page 1-220)975.8272 M2j

World War I

• 1920-1929 Georgia, World War I, Statement of Service Cards, 1920-1929 at FamilySearch — index and images

Other Records

Voting Records

• 1867-1868 - Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868 at FamilySearch — index
• 1856-1909 - Georgia, County Voter Registrations, 1856-1909 at FamilySearch — index and images

Probate Records

Colonial courts kept some early probate records.  From 1777 to 1798 and since 1852, the court of ordinary or register of probates has kept probate and guardianship records.  The inferior court handled probate and guardianship matters from 1798 to 1852.

Many probate records to the 1930s and 1940s are at the Georgia Department of Archives and History and the Family History Library on microfilm.

Content: Probate Records may give the decedent's date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, neighbors, associates, relatives, and their place of residence.

Record types: Wills, estates, guardianships, naturalizations, marriage, adoption, and birth and death records (not all years). Online Probate Records

• 1742–1992 Georgia Wills and Probate Records 1742-1992 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
• 1742-1990 Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1837-1867 - Wills 1837-1867 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers $
• 1819-1838 - Index to Miscellaneous Estates, Wills, Inventories, Appraisements, Annual Returns, Vouchers, Book A, 1819-1838 Georgia Pioneers $
• 1837-1867 - Index to Wills, Book A, 1837-1867 Georgia Pioneers $
• 1868-1890 - Index to Wills, Book R, 1868-1890 Georgia Pioneers $

Tax Records

Taxes were levied on free white males over 21 and all slaves up to age 60. These persons are referred to as "polls." Tax listings, or digests, of a county generally list the taxable landowners and other polls and the amount of tax. The records for each county are divided by militia district.

Vital Records

Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Georgia State Department of Health , the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred or order electronically online.

For some online statewide indexes, see the FamilySearch Historical Record Collections for Georgia.

Birth

• 1870 - 1960 - Georgia, County Delayed Birth and Death Records, 1870-1960 at FamilySearch — index, and some images

Marriage

• 1560-1993 - Georgia, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
• 1699 - 1944 - Georgia Marriages 1699-1944 at Ancestry.com— index $
• 1754 - 1960 - Georgia Church Marriages, 1754-1960 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1785 - 1950 - Georgia County Marriages 1785-1950 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
• 1787 - 1962 - Georgia, Church Marriages, 1787-1962 at FamilySearch — index
• 1808 - 1967 - Georgia Marriages 1808-1967 at FamilySearch.org — index
• 1828 - 1978 - Georgia Marriage Records from Select Counties 1828-1978 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
• 1819 - 1850 - Georgia Pioneers $
• 1819 - 1870 - Hall County Marriage Book A Index 1819-1870. Batch M713001 at FamilySearch - free.
• 1869 - 1881 - Hall County Marriage Book B Index 1869-1881. Batch M713002 at FamilySearch - free.
• 1874 - 1891 - Hall County Marriage Book C Index 1874-1891. Batch M713003 at FamilySearch - free.
• 1891 - 1895 - Hall County Marriage Index 1891-1895. Batch M713004 at FamilySearch - free.

Death

• 1869-70, 1879-80 - Hall County, Georgia Genealogy Mortality Schedules at Ancestry ($).
• 1870 - 1960 - Georgia, County Delayed Birth and Death Records, 1870-1960 at FamilySearch — index, and some images
• 1914 - 1927 - Georgia Deaths 1914-1927 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
• 1919 - 1998 - Georgia Deaths 1919-1998 at Ancestry.com — index $
• 1928 - 1942 - Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1933 - 1998 - Georgia Death Index 1933-1998 at FamilySearch.org — index

Research Facilities

Family History Centers

Family History Centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes.

• For current information about a center near you, go to the Family History Center Map

Societies

• Hall County Historical Society
  380 Green Street, NE
  Gainesville, GA 30501
  Phone: 770 503-1319
  Fax: 770 536-7072
  
• Northeast Georgia Historical & Genealogical Society
  P.O. Box 907085
  Gainesville 30501

Websites

• Hall County, GA History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
• Georgia Genealogy Network Community on Google+
• Georgia Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
• USGenWeb Hall County, Georgia project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
• GAGenWeb Archives
• Hall County, Georgia Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• Georgia Pioneers Georgia Pioneers
• FamilySearch Catalog - The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records