The Georgia Public Library Service has created a guide to the genealogy resources located in Georgia Public Libraries.

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A good listing of the actual muster rolls for Georgia in the Civil War.

The Records of this office show: That prior to October 31, 1902, applications were received by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes for the enrollment as citizens by intermarriage of the Cherokee Nation of the following named persons whose names appear upon the partial roll of Cherokee citizens, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, opposite the numbers following their respective name.

Georgia Pioneers.com is pleased to announce the addition of genealogy databases and images in the States of : Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Included are wills, estates, bibles, cemeteries, pensions, obituaries, and more. To subscribe now click on the link below (or copy it into your browser) Subscribe here

This is an index encompassing a wealth of heraldic information detailing the crests, coats of arms, mottoes, and lineages of approximately 137,000 individuals. The collection ranges from richly illustrated books of coats of arms to

Jewish genealogy might include a portion of the Torah, research into Holocaust Databases, and DNA testing for genetically heritable diseases.

The southeastern state of Georgia has been home to numerous Native American Indian tribes over the centuries. There were first pre-European Indian cultures dating back to 1,000 BC to 1,000 AD. The ones with the most influence in Georgia genealogy would be the tribes at the time the first Europeans arrived. There were the Creek,

Biographies of the Cherokee Indians: 382 biographies and genealogies extracted from Starr's History of the Cherokee Indians.

A good source of all states and territories for getting copies of vital records.

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Covering Banks, Hall, Jackson, Habersham, Lumpkin, Forsyth, Dawson, Rabun, and White Counties

Learn about history of Georgia Counties, through Historical Facts, Extinct Counties, Burned County Courthouses and Interactive Maps

Slavery in America was the legal institution of enslaving human beings, mainly Africans and African Americans. Slavery existed in the United States from its founding in 1776 and became the main cause behind the country's bloody Civil War. Slavery officially ended in America with the passage of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War's end in 1865.

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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

How I break down genealogy brick walls by using problem solving techniques and rigorous research procedures and source verification. All this is explained.

Ari Wilkins shares how plantation records can help you with all kinds of Southern research, including dealing with burned counties and slave research.

There is a new episode of the “Let’s Talk Genealogy” podcast now available! This episode features a Quick Genealogy Tip and how to narrow your online searches. Listen on: iTunes | Web Do you have a Quick Genealogy Tip you’d like to share? Contact me with your tip and I may use it (and mention you) on the next podcast episode!

I am really impressed with this Melungeon book. At first I thought it would be very different as I misunderstood the title and I thought it would be the manifesto of one more self identified modern day construct; a person with all the ailments, physical traits and mystic connections to Portuguese, Turks, Moors, Sephardic Jews, Gypsies, Lost Colonists, and American Indians. But Ms. Schrift is a calm dispassionate professor of Anthropology who has consulted some 70 resources. She seems to have read every non-fiction publication ever published about the Melungeon people. Thankfully, she spares the reader the foolishness found in some of the fiction books using Melungeon characters. I highly recommend this book and only wish it had been available earlier. Quote: Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what drove this legend and generated myriad exotic origin theories. Though nobody self-identified as Melungeon before the 1960s, by the 1990s “Melungeonness” had become a full-fledged cultural phenomenon, resulting in a zealous online community and annual meetings where self-identified Melungeons gathered to discuss shared genealogy and history. Although today Melungeons are commonly identified as the descendants of underclass whites, freed African Americans, and Native Americans,this ethnic identity is still largely a social construction based on local tradition, myth, and media. In Becoming Melungeon, Melissa Schrift examines the ways in which the Melungeon ethnic identity has been socially constructed over time by various regional and national media, plays, and other forms of popular culture. Schrift explores how the social construction of this legend evolved into a fervent movement of a self-identified ethnicity in the 1990s. This illuminating and insightful work examines these shifting social constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity both in the local context of the Melungeons and more broadly in an attempt to understand the formation of ethnic groups and identity in the modern world. Becoming Melungeon © History Chasers Click here to view all recent Historical Melungeons Blog posts Enter your email address to start receiving this blog in your inbox Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

Several states have done a fabulous job making many of their collections (photos, letters, documents, etc.) in a digital format. One outstanding example is the Digital Library of Georgia. Gathering collections from libraries, museum, donations, etc their digital collections represent resources on Georgia history, culture, and life. However, there is not just Georgia information, but

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Physical map of Georgia showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Georgia.