This is a free Georgia Genealogy Records Guide with online Georgia collections. Some of these collections are searchable indexes, others are digitized images that need to be scrolled through page by page. In collections of images, look at the first and last image to see if there’s an index for the record set.

Birth, Marriage, Death Records

Georgia Residence Records

Military Records

Civil War Pensions

Korean War, 1950-1953

Military history

Civil War History, 1861-1865

Daily Life Records

Church Histories

General Name File – Card index of personal names in state, local and personal records housed in the Georgia Archives.

Atlanta History Photograph Collection, “Street scenes and photographs of neighborhoods capture the physical development of the city between the 1870s and the 1980s and include images of Atlanta landmarks in downtown Atlanta and surrounding counties.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs, “Over 4000 images dating from the 1950s to the 1980s from the photography staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.”
Benjamin M. Long Collection “Historic photographs of Carrollton, Georgia, and Mexico City, Mexico from 1907 to the 1970s”
Black History Society Photograph Collection, 1940S-1950S
Boyd Lewis Photographs, “depicting the rise of the African American political class, journalists, social activists, clergy, students, and Atlanta neighborhoods.”
Carl Dixon Photographs, 1952 “Black-and-white photographs from 1952 of College Park, Georgia, including images of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Station, churches, businesses, private residences, municipal and civic buildings, and schools including the Georgia Military Academy.”
Carl Dixon Photographs, 1952, “Black-and-white photographs from 1952 of College Park, Georgia, including images of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Station, churches, businesses, private residences, municipal and civic buildings, and schools including the Georgia Military Academy.”
Charles Bickerstaff and Joel Hurt Photographs, circa 1893-1923 “Sepia photographs of banks, businesses, theaters, clubs, hotels, and grocery stores in downtown Atlanta from 1893 to 1923.”
Charles E. Troutt Photographs, “taken between 1950 and 1970 of the buildings and neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia”
Dale Elliott Roberts Photographs, 1954 “Black-and-white photographs from 1954 of churches, schools, and businesses in towns near Atlanta, Georgia, including Alpharetta, Ben Hill, and Sandy Springs.”
Digital Archives of Reese Library, Georgia Regents University “Black-and-white photographs of Augusta, Georgia from 1888 to the 1950s from the Special Collections of the Reese Library, Georgia Regents University”
Digital Library of America Photo Collections
Ernest G. Welch Photographs, “Photographs of Atlanta photographer Ernest Welch.”
Frances Outlar Photograph Collection, circa 1950, 1952-1953, “Black-and-white photographs of Atlanta religious institutions taken between 1950 and 1954.”
Georgia Family Old Photos
Georgia Historical Society Image Catalog “Select digitized images of photographs, prints, artifacts, portraits, and manuscripts from the collections of the Georgia Historical Society”
Georgia Photos, Georgia USGenWeb
Georgia Power Photograph Collection “Photographs of lighting installations for businesses by Georgia Power. The 305 photographs from this collection are from Accession 1979-0071M, Georgia Power Company Collection.”
Georgia Southern University Photo Gallery
Georgia State University Photographic Collections
Georgia Tech Photograph Collections
Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection “Black-and-white photographs of Atlanta, Georgia taken and collected by photojournalist Kenneth Rogers.”
Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection “Black-and-white photographs of Atlanta, Georgia taken and collected by photojournalist Kenneth Rogers.”
Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976 “over 9,825 photographs taken by the Lane Brothers Commercial Photogrphers that depict life in Atlanta from the 1920s to 1957”
Parker Lowell Photograph Collection, 1949
Patricia Kennedy Photographs, circa 1940 American South photos
Rare Books Online “Scanned books … covering Georgia history, literature, education, figures, and Native American and African American life in the state”
Rees stereograph collection
Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898 “Late-nineteenth-century photographs of Augusta-area African American people, places, agriculture, family life, and more”
Ross Ingram Photographs, circa 1885-1969, undated, bulk 1964-1969
Salvation Army Southern Historical Center – Atlanta
Samuel Hugh Hawkins diary, January-July 1877 “Diary of Samuel Hugh Hawkins, Sumter County entrepreneur during the close of Reconstruction”
Smithsonian Images
South Georgia Folklife Project
Spelman College Photograph Collection
Telamon Cuyler Historical Manuscripts, 1609-1942
The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 “Documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life.”
Thomas Maguire Papers, 1829-1949, “Manuscripts documenting plantation life in Georgia from 1829-1949.”
Thurston Hatcher Photographs, 1916, 1948-1952
Tracy O’Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975 “Over 1000 photographs documenting the history and social life of Atlanta, Georgia from 1923 to 1964, including weddings, sports events, portraits, local buildings, companies, the Atlanta labor community, and the Shriners Yaarab Temple”
Troup County Superior Court Records
University of Georgia Press Georgia History Ebook Project
Valdosta State University Photo Archives
Van Buren Colley photographs, 1873-1970, undated, (bulk 1953-1970) “Black-and-white photographs from 1873 to 1970 of Fulton County (including Atlanta and more rural areas such as Alpharetta and Adamsville) that feature Catholic life in Atlanta and street scenes.”
Vanishing Georgia “Historically significant photographs of people, places, and structures from Georgia’s past from the Vanishing Georgia Collection”
Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Archives
Vincent A. Irick Photographs, “Black-and-white photographs and cyanotypes of African Americans in Faceville, Georgia at the turn of the 20th century.”
Vintage Georgia Images
Virtual Georgia “The Virtual Georgia collection is intended to document the lives of Georgians from all walks of life: their religious and social celebrations, homes, art, architecture, dress, and customs.”
Virtual Vault, Georgia Archives
W.W. Law Photograph Collection “Photographs taken by Savannah civil rights leader, W.W. Law.”

Digital Library of America Postcard Collections
Historic Postcard Collection “These 1,666 postcards, dating from the early 1900s through the 1970s, come from a variety of sources in the collections of the Georgia Archives. They depict many historical buildings and landmarks throughout the state.”
Okefenokee Postcard Collection, postcards from Waycross, Georgia
Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library System, turn of the 20th century postcards
V. & J. Duncan Postcard Collection “(circa 1870s-circa 2000) includes digital copies of 2,097 postcards and photographs depicting Savannah scenes and Savannah-related images”

We’ll continue to add resources to this site and then further break them down by county and city.

Some collections hosted by FamilySearch require you to create a free account before accessing the collections.

A few of the collections we’ve included here are either in queue to be digitized or are only viewable at a Family History Center because of limited access rights. You can use this Family History Center locator to find a free viewing library near you.

Birth, Marriage, Death Records

Georgia Birth Records

Georgia Marriage Records

Georgia Death Records

Cemeteries

Obituaries

Probate

Georgia Residence Records

Census

Citizenship / Naturalization / Emigration / Immigration

Directories

Land & Property

Land and property – Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Maps/Gazetteers

Passenger Lists

Pensions

Taxation

Voters

Military Records

Military records

Revolutionary War, 1774-1783

War of 1812, 1812-1815

Indian Wars, dates vary

Mexican War, 1846-1848

Civil War, 1861-1865

Spanish-American War, 1898

World War I, 1914-1918

World War II, 1941-1945

Revolutionary War History, 1775-1783

World War I History, 1914-1918

Daily Life Records

Alumni / Schools / Yearbooks

Bibliography

Bible Records

Biographies

Church Records

Court

Employment / Business / Commerce

Ethnic/Minorities

African American

Japanese American

Native American

Genealogies / Family Trees

Government & Legal

History

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

Magazines / Periodicals

Names & Surnames

Newspapers

Oral Histories

Photographs

Postcards

Prisons

Public Records

Slavery & Servitude

Societies/Genealogy

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