Quitman
Quitman County Genealogy Records Quitman County was created on December 10, 1858, and was named after General John A. Quitman, the leader in the Mexican-American War, and once Governor of Mississippi. The county seat is Georgetown. Marriages Index to Quitman County Marriages 1875 to 1885 Index to Quitman County Marriages 1885-91 Putnam County was created […]
Putnam
Putnam County Wills, Estates, Marriages, Church and Military Records Putnam County was created from Baldwin County on Dec. 10, 1807, by an Act of the General Assembly and was named for American Revolutionary War General Israel Putnam. Abstracts of Putnam County Wills 1822-1857 Wills 1808-1822 Images of Wills 1822 to 1831 Names of Testators: Abercrombie, […]
Pulaski
Pulaski County Wills, Estates, Inventories Pulaski County was created on 13 December 1808 from Laurens County. It was named for Polish Count Casimir Pulaski who died in Savannah of wounds suffered in the Revolutionary War. The Ocmulgee River runs through Pulaski County, and this area was the capital of the Creek Indian Confederacy. The county […]
Polk
Polk County Genealogy Records Polk was created in 1851 by Paulding and Floyd Counties. Early settlers: David Heslip, Robert Hutchings, Edmund Bray, Vincent Ossert, George West, John Jones. Inferior Court Records are Important to Finding Ancestors Names of Families in Polk County Wills, Estates, Marriages The records kept at court houses are invaluable to discovering […]
Pike
Names of Families in Pike County Wills and Estates Pike County was created by the Act of December 9, 1822, and was taken from Monroe County, Pike County. It originally contained parts of Spalding, Upson, and Lamar Counties. The county was named after Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) who led the 1805 expedition to trace the […]
Pierce
Pierce County Wills and Estates Pierce County was formed on October 18, 1857, from Appling and Ware Counties. Georgia’s 120th county was named for President Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), whose term as fourteenth president had ended earlier that year. Portions of Pierce County were used to create Bacon County (1914) and Brantley County (1920). It lies […]
Pickens
Pickens County Wills, Inventories, Estates Pickens County lies at the southern end of the Appalachians in North Georgia, a region once occupied by the Cherokee Indians Indians until the tribes were forced from the Carolinas in the 1770s. In 1805, the Federal Government forced the Cherokees to accept a road through their lands to Nashville. […]
Peach
Peach County Wills and Estates Peach County was formed in 1924 from Houston and Macon Counties. Some early settlers were: Dominick Burns, Green Avera, J. A. Bassett, and Henry Copeland. The Archives have not filmed any records from Peach County. Peach County Will Book A (1924 to 1934) Testators: Aultman, W. L. | Avera, J. […]
Paulding
Paulding County Records – Wills, Estates, Marriages, Cemeteries, Churches, Spanish American War Paulding County was created from Cherokee County. Creeks and Cherokees resided on Raccoon Creek, and other waters where many flints and arrows were found. The county was named in 1832 after John Paulding, one of the men who had captured the famous British […]
Oglethorpe
Oglethorpe County Wills and Estates Oglethorpe County was created on December 19, 1793, from Wilkes County and was named for General James Edward Oglethorpe the founder of the Georgia colony in 1733. The Creeks and Cherokees occupied this territory prior to that time. In 1794 a portion of Greene County was added to Oglethorpe, and […]