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Contents 1 County Courthouse 2 History 2.1 Parent County 2.2 Boundary Changes 2.3 Record Loss 3 Places/Localities 3.1 Populated Places 3.2 Neighboring Counties 4 Resources 4.1 African American 4.2 Cemeteries 4.3 Church 4.4 Court 4.5 Land 4.6 Local Histories 4.7 Maps 4.8 Marriages 4.9 Migration 4.10 Military 4.11 Newspapers 4.12 Probate 4.13 Taxation 4.14 Vital Records 4.14.1 Death 5 Societies and Libraries 5.1 Family History Centers 6 Web Sites 7 References

County Courthouse

Elbert County Courthouse
10 W Church Sreet
Elberton, GA 30635-1498
Phone: 706.283.2005

Clerk Superior Court has divorce, court, land and cemetery records,  from 1790 and military from 1922; Probate Court has birth, marriage, death, burial and probate records^[1]

History

Parent County

1790--Elbert County was created 10 December 1790 from Wilkes County. County seat:  Elberton ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Abbeville County, South Carolina
• Anderson County, South Carolina
• Hart
• Lincoln
• Madison
• McCormick County, South Carolina
• Oglethorpe
• Wilkes

Resources

African American

• In Those Days is an oral history from elderly African Americans in Elbert County, Georgia, and Abbeville County, South Carolina.

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

• McIntosh, John H. The Official History of Elbert County, 1790-1935. Elberton, Ga.: The Chapter, c1940. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

Maps

Marriages

• 1817; 1885-1886 (from old newspapers) Georgia Pioneers
  

Migration

Early migration routes to Elbert County for European settlers included:

• Savannah River pre-historic
• Occaneechi Path pre-historic
• Middle Creek Trading Path pre-historic
• Fall Line Road about 1735
• Augusta-Savannah Trail 1740s
• Augusta and Cherokee Trail 1740s
• Great Valley Road (south fork) 1740s
• Charleston-Ft. Charlotte Trail in South Carolina about 1765
• Ft. Charlotte and Cherokee Old Path in South Carolina about 1765

Military

Newspapers

Probate

• Wills 1791-1826, Books A-M (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
  
• Index to Will Book 1835-1860 Georgia Pioneers ($)
  
• Index to Misc. Wills, Inventories, Letters of Administration, 1791-1806 Georgia Pioneers ($)
  
• Digital Images of Elbert County Wills 1836-1860. See names of Testators. Georgia Pioneers

Taxation

Vital Records

Death

• 1869-70 - Elbert County, Georgia Mortality Schedules at Ancestry ($).
  

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
• Elbert 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), Elbert County, Georgia. Page 155 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).

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