Terrell County, GeorgiaEdit This Page

From FamilySearch Wiki

This Georgia-related article is a stub. You can help by expanding it. While this page is under construction, may we suggest Cyndi's List.

County Courthouse

Terrell County Courthouse
235 E Lee Street
Dawson, GA 31742-2100
Phone: 229.995.4108

County Health Department has birth and death records;
probate court has marriage and probate records Clerk
Superior Court has divorce and court records from 1919
and land records from 1826^[1]

History

Parent County

1856--Terrell County was created 16 February 1856  fromLee AndRandolph Counties. County seat: Dawson ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Calhoun
• Dougherty
• Lee
• Randolph
• Sumter
• Webster

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps 

Marriages

  1885-1886 Marriages from old Newspapers

Military

Newspapers

Probate 

• Wills, Book A, 1857-1871 (digital images) Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Will Book A, 1857-1913 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
• Terrell 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), Terrell 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).