Records of Washington County, Georgia

Records of Washington County, Georgia

Author: Marie De Lamar

Publisher: Clearfield Company

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780806311104

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Washington County was established February 25, 1784 from the Creek Indian Cession of November 1, 1783.


The Georgians

The Georgians

Author: Jeannette Holland Austin

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0806310812

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"This is a collection of 283 genealogies which I have compiled over a period of twenty years as a professional genealogist. ... While I have dealt with some of Oglethorpe's settlers, the vast majority of the genealogies included in this collection deal with Georgians who descend from settlers from other states."--Note to the Reader.


The American Census Handbook

The American Census Handbook

Author: Thomas Jay Kemp

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780842029254

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Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.


The Drake Family of Washington County, Georgia

The Drake Family of Washington County, Georgia

Author: Charles Edward Francis Drake

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Francis Bryant Drake was born 16 October 1806 in Nash County, North Carolina. His parents were Richard Drake and Pherabah Bryant. He married Selena King (1812-1899), daughter of John King and Winifred Kemp, 6 November 1828 in Washington County, Georgia. They had eleven children. He died in Johnson County, Georgia in 1875. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.


1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia

1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia

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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780806319902

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The 1864 Census for Re-organizing the Georgia Militia is a statewide census of all white males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not at the time in the service of the Confederate States of America. Based on a law passed by the Georgia Legislature in December 1863 to provide for the protection of women, children, and invalids living at home, it is a list of some 42,000 men--many of them exempt from service--who were able to serve in local militia companies and perform such homefront duties as might be required of them. In accordance with the law, enrollment lists were drawn up by counties and within counties by militia districts. Each one of the 42,000 persons enrolled was listed by his full name, age, occupation, place of birth, and reason (if any) for his exemption from service. Sometime between 1920 and 1940 the Georgia Pension and Record Department typed up copies of these lists. Names on the typed lists, unlike most of the originals, are in alphabetical order, and it is these typed lists which form the basis of this new work by Mrs. Nancy Cornell. Checking the typed lists against the original handwritten records on microfilm in the Georgia Department of Archives & History, Mrs. Cornell was able to add some information and correct certain misspellings. She also points out that no lists were found for the counties of Burke, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dooly, Emanuel, Irwin, Johnson, Pulaski, and Wilcox.


The Georgia Frontier

The Georgia Frontier

Author: Jeannette Holland Austin

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9780806352749

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Vol. 1 : Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period.-- Vol. 2 : Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s. -- Vol. 3 : Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina families.


Ambiguous Lives

Ambiguous Lives

Author: Adele Logan Alexander

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1992-02-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1610750144

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1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South. Ambiguous Lives focuses on the women of Alexander’s own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears, in fact, included Africans, Native Americans, and whites. Neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, these women of color lived and died in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks. Yet, as Alexander persuasively argues, these lives are worthy of attention precisely because of these ambiguities—because the intricacies, gradations, and subtleties of their anomalous experience became part of the tangled skein of American history and exemplify our country’s endless diversity, complexity, and self-contradictions. Written as a “reclamation” of a long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family—it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave.


Brothers in Clay

Brothers in Clay

Author: John A. Burrison

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780820332208

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An illustrated study that tells the story of Georgia's folk pottery tradition, the forces that shaped it, and the families and artisans who continue to keep it alive provides a new preface that summarizes the past decade of southern folk pottery. Reprint.


From Jamestown to Texas

From Jamestown to Texas

Author: Betty Smith Meischen

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-09-22

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 1453576398

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The rugged character and indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of Stephen F. Austins Texas colony had their roots in a turbulent, distant past. From the early 1600s, their courageous ancestors had pushed westward, leaving the European shores to carve out a new nation from the wilderness. They fled religious and political oppression in search of a better life in which freedom was of supreme importance. Many came with tales of their former struggles in Londonderry, Ireland during the great siege, of terrible massacres and clan rivalries in the times of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. They vividly remembered the tribulations of Martin Luther and the deadly religious split with the Catholic Church. More recently, memories of their parents participation in the American Revolution, of dramatic, true life scenes such as depicted in the movie The Patriot filled their minds, their fathers having ridden along side of the wily Swamp Fox, Francis Marion. These pioneers associated themselves with men like Travis, Crockett, Houston and Andrew Jackson. Many of these early trailblazers were Scots-Irish and German immigrants. They were on a westward trek to grasp a special prize, to seal Americas Manifest Destiny. And that prize they sought was Texas. From Jamestown to Texas is the story of these intrepid pioneers and their ancestors who cleared and farmed the land, who fought the Indians, battled the elements, and carved out this wonderful country that we have today.