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 Insert building images here.jpg E-mail:[1] mccls@mccls.org
Address:[2] [3]
- Street address: Moultrie-Colquitt County Library
204 5th Street, Southeast
Moultrie, Georgia 31768 USA
Mailing address: Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library
P.O. Box 2828
Moultrie, GA 31776 USA
Telephone:[2] 229-985-6540
Hours and Holidays:[4] 8:30am-5:30pm Monday-Saturday. Closed major holidays.
Map, Directions, and Public transportation
Internet sites and databases:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library clans and families, collections, databases, indexes, blogs, online resources, and veteran's history project.
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library brochure.
- Georgia Pines Catalog for 275 Georgia libraries including the Odom Genealogical Library. Arranged by keyword, author, title, subject, or series. Also available in WorldCat.
The Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library in the south wing of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library emphasizes Scottish immigrants to America, but also has a good basic American genealogy collection.[5] Their collection is an archives for more than 130 Scottish clan organizations, houses many rare books including an original edition of Scottish Peerage, and the Emmett Lucas Collection about the southeastern United States, the Civil War and migration routes west. They have a good collection of newspapers. The Odom Genealogy Library is considered one of the three "crown jewels" of genealogy repositories in the Georgia public library system.[6]
If you cannot visit or find a record at the Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy 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.[7]
- National Archives at Atlanta federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty-land, photos, passengers lists, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, and workshops.[8]
- 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.[9] 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
- Coweta County Genealogical Society Research Library, have the best set of family folders in Georgia.[9] They also have Civil War records, DAR and Revolutionary War records, pension and bounty land records, immigration indexes, censuses, church records and histories.[10]
- Huxford-Spear Genealogical Library, Homerville, their genealogical collection covers the Southeast United States well.[9]
- Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library good collection of southern states family history material such as immigration records, marriages and deaths, Internet access, censuses, and state and county histories.[11]
Neighboring Collections
- Colquitt County Clerk of the Probate Court, Moultrie, county births, marriages, deaths, and probate records. Fire destroyed records in 1881.[12]
- Colquitt County Clerk of the Superior Court, Moultrie, divorce, court, and land records.[12]
- Newnan-Coweta Historical Society
- Coweta Public Library System
- Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library, large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA.[9] They have county histories, family histories, will indexes, deeds, military rosters, passenger lists, Atlanta city directories, Georgia censuses 1820-1930, local histories, and newspapers.[13]
- 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.
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Atlanta, members, meetings, newsletter, surname queries, links.
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia, Atlanta, family histories, immigration, East Europe, Georgia, North America.
- Atlanta Area Family History Centers, can order microfilms from Salt Lake City for a small fee.
- Fulton County Health Department, Atlanta, births since 1896, deaths since 1887.
- Repositories in surrounding counties: Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift, and Worth.
- DeKalb History Center, Decatur, subject files, biographical files, cemetery index, maps, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, memoirs, yearbooks, and Atlanta City and suburban directories.[14]
- Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, 4 million manuscripts, photos, papers, military, diaries, plantation records. They have almost as many genealogical sources as the Georgia Archives.[9]
- 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.[15]
- Georgia Salzburger Society, Rincon, histories, journals, genealogical records, and church histories.[16]
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths, parish records.
- University of Georgia Main Library, Athens, largest collection for early Georgia settlers. Also, they hold county histories, county records, family records, biographies and newspapers.[9]
- Repositories in other surrounding states: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
- ↑ Ask a Genealogist in Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library (accessed 13 May 2015).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Directions in Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library (accessed 13 May 2015).
- ↑ Mailing Address in Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library (accessed 13 May 2015).
- ↑ Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library in Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library (accessed 13 May 2015).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library brochure in Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library (accessed 13 May 2015).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 2.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 127-28.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 33. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Book 973 J54d. Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ CCGS Inventory an MS Excel database with link on Records - Digital and Print in Coweta County Genealogical Society (accessed 12 January 2016).
- ↑ Library Resources in The Thomasville Genealogical, History and Fine Arts Library (accessed 8 January 2016).
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Handybook for Genealogists (Logan, Utah : Everton Publishers Inc, 1999), 85. WorldCat 670125599; FHL Book 973 D27e 1999.
- ↑ Special Collections in Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (accessed 8 January 2016).
- ↑ Collections in DeKalb History Center (accessed 11 September 2015).
- ↑ Contact Us in Georgia Genealogical Society (accessed 8 January 2016).
- ↑ Living History Museum in Visit Ebenezer (accessed 11 September 2015).
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