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County Courthouse

Sumter County Courthouse
PO Box 295
Americus, GA 31709-0295
Phone: 912.924.3090 

County Health Department has birth, death and burial records;
Probate Court has marriage and probate records; Clerk Superior
Court has divorce, court and land records from 1831^[1]

History

Parent County

1831--Sumter County was created 26 December 1831 from Lee County. County seat:  Americus ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Crisp
• Dooly
• Lee
• Macon
• Marion
• Schley
• Terrell
• Webster

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps 

Marriages

  1833-1850 Georgia Pioneers ($)

  1885-1886 (from newspapers) Georgia Pioneers ($)

Military

Civil War

• Andersonville, Georgia. Andersonville Prisoner of War Database. Andersonville, GA, USA: National Park Service, Andersonville National Historic Site. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Clavreul, H. Diary of Rev. H. Clavreul: With the Names of Dying Federal Soldiers to Whom He Ministered at Andersonville, Ga. July and August, 1864. Waterbury, Conn.: Connecticut Association of Ex-prisoners of War, 1910. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

Newspapers

Probate 

• Wills 1831-1900 (abstracts) Georgia Pioneers ($)
• Index to Will Book 00, 1838-1855 Georgia Pioneers ($)

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
• Sumter 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), Sumter County, Georgia. Page 160 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).