Welcome to the
Dawson Co., GAGenWeb

Dawson County, Georgia, was created on December 3, 1857 from parts of Gilmer and Lumpkin Counties. It was named for lawyer and politician William C. Dawson. The County seat is Dawsonville.

Currently, there are no records housed at this site; however, the USGenWeb Archives for Dawson County contains several wonderful records transcriptions in the following categories:

• Bible Records
• Biographies
• Cemeteries
• Census Records, Federal
• Deeds and Land Records
• History
• Military
• Newspapers
• Obituaries
• Photographs
• Vital Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths)

The following may also be useful:

• Dawson County Government information, including contacts for the Clerk of the Superior Court and the Probate Court. See also: Dawson County Courthouse from GeorgiaInfo.
• Georgia's Virtual Vault, which houses digital images of county marriages, Georgia death certificates from 1919 to 1930, Confederate pension applications, and much more.
• Maps from the Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties, courtesy of GeorgiaInfo.
• Message boards from CousinConnect, Rootsweb/Ancestry, and GenForum.

Genealogical and historical publications about Dawson County as of May 2012:

• Carver, John. Abstracts of Obituaries in Dawson County, Georgia Newspapers, 1879 - 1952. Canton, Georgia: Privately printed, 2010.
• Dawson County Georgia Bicentennial Committee. A Bicentennial Look at Dawson County: Its Churches, Its Government, Its People. Dawsonville, Georgia: No publisher, 1976.
• Dawson County Historical and Genealogical Society. Cemeteries of Dawson County, Georgia. Dawsonville, Georgia: Dawson County Historical and Genealogical Society, 2002.
• Finley, Charles B. Yesterday Once More: A History of the Schools of Dawson County. No place: No publisher, 2008.
• Sardis Baptist Church. Sardis Baptist Church Dawson Georgia: 108 Anniversary Post Centennial 1866 - 1974. Dawsonville, Georgia: Sardis Baptist Church, 1974.
• Whitmire, Rhonda Ivey, Eva Lance Jenson, and Sue B. Cates. Memories in Stone, Cemetery Records of Dawson County Georgia and Related History. No place: Georgia Gold Researchers, 1992.