The extracts include marriages, deaths, legal notices, sheriff's sales, elections, jury lists, lists of unclaimed letters left at local post offices, and miscellaneous information of genealogical value.
The articles extracted in this book pertain to Laurens County, but are taken from newspapers from across Georgia except Laurens County. The newspapers extracted are: The Albany news, The Albany patriot (Albany); Bainbridge Argus, Bainbridge weekly sun, Bainbridge Democrat (Bainbridge); Columbus enquirer, Columbus sentinel and herald (Columbus); Central Georgian, Mercury, The Sandersville herald (Sandersville); Tri-weekly chronicle and sentinel (Augusta); The Calhoun times (Calhoun); Dodge County journal, Eastman times, Times-journal (Eastman); Early County news (Blakely); Dawson journal (Dawson); Gallaher's independent, Quitman free press, Quitman banner, Quitman reporter (Quitman); The temperance banner, Greenesboro weekly gazette, Herald journal (Greenesboro); Montgomery monitor (Mount Vernon); Messenger (Macon); Georgia journal, Statesman and patriot, Southern recorder, Times and states rights advocate, Standard of union, Union recorder (Milledgeville); The Wire-Grass reporter, Thomasville times, Southern enterprise (Thomasville).
The articles in this book all pertain to Telfair County, but were taken from newspapers published outside the county. The newspapers include: The Albany news, The Albany patriot (Albany); Bainbridge Argus, Bainbridge weekly sun, Bainbridge Democrat (Bainbridge); Columbus enquirer, Columbus sentinel and herald (Columbus); Central Georgian, The Sandersville herald, Mercury (Sandersville); Tri-weekly chronicle and sentinel (Augusta); The Calhoun times (Calhoun); Dodge County journal, Eastman times, Times-journal (Eastman); Dawson Journal (Dawson), Early County news (Blakely), Gallaher's independent, The Quitman banner, The Quitman free press, The Quitman reporter (Quitman); Georgia journal, Statesman and patriot, Times and states rights advocate, Southern recorder, Standard of union, Union recorder (Milledgeville); The Wire-Grass reporter, Thomasville times, Southern enterprise (Thomasville); Messenger (Macon); Hawkinsville dispatch (Hawkinsville), Greenesboro weekly gazette, Herald journal, The temperance banner (Greenesboro); Montgomery monitor (Mount Vernon); Southern christian advocate (Atlanta).