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

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Polk County, Georgia
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Location in the state of [[Georgia]]
Location of Georgia in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	20 December, 1851
County Seat	Cedartown
Courthouse
Address	Polk County Courthouse PO Box 268 Cedartown, GA 30125-0268 Phone: 770.749.2100  Polk County Website]
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County Courthouse

Polk County Courthouse
PO Box 268
Cedartown, GA 30125-0268
Phone: 770.749.2100 

Probate Court has birth, marriage, death and probate records;
Clerk Superior court has divorce, court and land records from 1852^[1]

History

Local histories are available for Polk 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

1851--Polk County was created 20 December 1851 from Paulding and Floyd Counties.  County seat:  Cedartown ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Bartow
• Cherokee County, Alabama
• Cleburne County, Alabama
• Floyd
• Haralson
• Paulding

Resources

Cemeteries

• Northview Cemetery, Cedartown BillionGraves

Church

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about Georgia denominations, see the Georgia Church Records wiki page.

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Polk

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

  1885-1886 Marriages (from Newspapers)

Military

Newspapers

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

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
  

• Family History Library Catalog. Do a Place search for Polk 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, 1848-1911 (digital images) Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Will Book A, 1848-1936 Georgia PioneersGeorgia Pioneers
• Index to Annual Returns and Vouchers 1860-1893

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

• 1852-1888 - Polk County Marriage Books A and B Index 1852-1888. Batch M713521 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1884-1895 - Polk County Marriage Books C and D Index 1884-1895. Batch M713522 at FamilySearch - free.^[3]
• 1891-1895 - Polk County Marriage Book D Index 1891-1895. Batch M713523 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
• Polk 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), Polk County, Georgia. Page 159 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} Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/5/53/Igigeorgiamz.pdf.

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