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County Courthouse

Madison County Courthouse 
91 Albany Avenue
Danielsville, GA 30633-0147
Phone: 706.795.3352

Probate Court has birth, marriage, death, burial
and probate records; Clerk Superior Court has
divorce, court and land records from 1812^[1]

History

Parent County

1811--Madison County was created 5 December 1811 from Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Jackson andOglethorpe Counties.
County seat: Danielsville ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Banks
• Clarke
• Elbert
• Franklin
• Hart
• Jackson
• Oglethorpe

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Marriages

• 1885-1886 Marriages (from newspapers) Georgia Pioneers

Military

Online Resource:

Madison Parish Civil War Claimants: Landowners who filed Civil war damage claims against the US government between 1871-1880.

Newspapers

Probate

• Wills 1812-1841 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Annual Returns, Book A, 1816-1826 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Annual Returns, Book B, 1826-1830 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Annual Returns, Book C,  1830-1834 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Annual Returns, Book D, 1834-1837 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Annual Returns, Book E, 1837-1841 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Inventories, Appraisements, Bills of Sale, Book B, 1813-1829 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Inventories, Appraisements, Bills of Sale, Book D, 1841-1857 Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Administrators and Guardians 1818-1888 Georgia Pioneers

Taxation

Vital Records

Madison County, GA Marriage Index 1812-1908 on-line. These records were copied from an index compiled by the county clerk from the original marriage books.

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
• Madison 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), Madison County, Georgia. Page 158 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).