Georgia Research Guide Digital Download

You'll love this if:

• You're getting started tracing your ancestors in Georgia
• You want new ideas and resources to get past a Georgia brick wall
• Your genealogy search is focused mainly on Georgia

Trace your Georgia ancestors with the advice and resources in our State Research Guide! This four-page download includes:

• a how-to article detailing Georgia's history and records, with helpful advice on tracking your family there
• the best websites, books and other resources for Georgia research, handpicked by our editors and experts
• listings of key libraries, archives and organizations that hold the records you need
• timeline of key events in the state's history
• full-color map to put your research in geographical context

Here's a sampling of the helpful tips you'll get in the Georgia guide:

• After slavery was legalized in 1751 and Georgia became a royal colony in 1752, settlers from Virginia and the Carolinas began to drive population growth there.
• Worse yet, Georgia has some of the toughest access restrictions, basically limiting it to immediate relatives and heirs.
• Georgia has some of the most complete newspaper archives in the nation, ranging as far back as 1763. The state's oldest newspaper, the Augusta Chronicle, has a searchable online archive of digitized papers spanning almost 200 years.

Plus, each guide contains active web links for one-click access to every recommended online resource. You can view this PDF on your computer and print pages for reference.