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County Courthouse

Monroe County Courthouse
PO Box 189
Forsyth, GA 31029-0189
Phone: 912.994.7000 

Probate Court has marriage, probate records from 1824,
birth records from 1927 and death records from 1940;
Clerk Superior Court has court and land records from
1821 and divorce records^[1]

History

Parent County

1821--Monroe County was created 15 May 1827 from Creek Indian Lands.  County seat: Forsyth ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Bibb
• Butts
• Crawford
• Jasper
• Jones
• Lamar
• Upson

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps 

Marriages

Marriages 1824-1850 Georgia Pioneers ($)

Marriages from newspapers 1885-1886 Georgia Pioneers ($)

Military

Newspapers

Probate 

• Wills 1824-1847 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Wills 1824-1847 (digital images). See names of testators. Georgia Pioneers
• Wills 1848-1875 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Wills, 1868-1878 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Wills, 1876-1927 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Annual Returns 1823-1858 Georgia Pioneers ($)

Taxation

Vital Records

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
• Monroe 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), Monroe 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).