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Guide to Henry County Georgia genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Henry County, Georgia
Map
Location in the state of [[Georgia]]
Location of Georgia in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	May 15, 1821
County Seat	McDonough
Courthouse
Address	Henry County Courthouse 345 Phillips Drive McDonough, GA 30253-3425 Phone: 770.954.2400 Henry County Website

County Courthouse

Clerk Superior Court has divorce, court and land records from 1821^[1]

History

Local histories are available for Henry County, Georgia. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Georgia Local Histories.

Parent County

1821--Henry County was created 15 May 1821 from Creek Indian Lands. County seat: McDonough ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

1824 -- Courthouse burned and many records were damaged.

For further information on researching in burned counties, see the following:

• Burned Counties Research
  
• http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=2424

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Butts
• Clayton
• DeKalb
• Newton
• Rockdale
• Spalding

Resources

Cemeteries

• Bailey Cemetery, Stockbridge BillionGraves
• Concord Cemetery, Stockbridge BillionGraves

Church

Court

Land

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Georgia Land and Property for additional information about early Georgia land grants from the government. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions (generally buying and selling deeds) were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.

Local Histories

Maps 

Marriages

Henry County Marriage Contracts found in deeds, documents, etc. Georgia Pioneers

Military

Newspapers

Newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Henry County, Georgia newspapers in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
  

• Family History Library Catalog. Do a Place search for Henry County, Georgia to find these and other records in the Family History Library Catalog (For instructions see FHL Catalog Place-name Search).

Probate 

Colonial courts kept some early probate records.  From 1777 to 1798 and since 1852, the court of ordinary or register of probates has kept probate and guardianship records.  The inferior court handled probate and guardianship matters from 1798 to 1852.

Many probate records to the 1930s and 1940s are at the Georgia Department of Archives and History and the Family History Library on microfilm.

Content: Probate Records may give the decedent's date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, neighbors, associates, relatives, and their place of residence.

Record types: Wills, estates, guardianships, naturalizations, marriage, adoption, and birth and death records (not all years).

• Wills and Bonds 1822-1834 (digital images). See nams of testa Georgia Pioneers
• Wills 1834-1869 (digital images) .georgiapioneers.com/counties/countyhenry.html Georgia Pioneers *$)
• Index to Wills and Bons, 1822-1834 Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Wills, Book A, 1834-1869 Georgia Pioneers  ($)
• Index to Wills, Book B, 1867-1896 Georgia Pioneers ($)

Taxation

Taxes were levied on free white males over 21 and slaves aged 21 to 60. These persons are referred to as "polls." Tax listings, or digests, of a county generally list the taxable landowners and other polls and the amount of tax. The records for each county are divided by militia district.

Vital Records

Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Georgia State Department of Health or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred.

For some online statewide indexes, see the FamilySearch Historical Record Collections for Georgia.

Marriage

• 1822-1851 - Henry County Marriage Index 1822-1851. Batch M713061 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1851-1885 - Henry County Marriage Index 1851-1885. Batch M713062 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1851-1885 - Henry County Marriage Index 1851-1885. Batch M734973 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1851-1885 - Henry County Marriage Index 1851-1885. Batch M734974 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1885-1892 - Henry County Marriage Index 1885-1892. Batch M713063 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1885-1895 - Henry County Marriage Index 1885-1895. Batch M713065 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1886-1895 - Henry County Marriage Index 1886-1895. Batch M713064 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]

Societies and Libraries 

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Henry County, Georgia Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• Georgia Pioneers Georgia Pioneers ($)

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Henry County, Georgia. Page 156 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/5/57/Igigeorgiael.pdf.

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