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Bryan and Effingham County Georgia Look-ups

I have the following Bryan County and Effingham County resources available to me for your look-ups:

  • Books:
    --"Mitchell Family" Compiled by Alfred Chassereau. This book contains many surnames from southeast Georgia. This book is still available for purchase by contacting him.

    --"Shuman Family Genealogy and Allied Families"Compiled by Earline Geiger, Carolyn Jarrard, Euna Mae Futch, Aileen Knabel
    13,000 name index, dealing with most of the early settlers of Bryan County, Ga. This book is limited but still available.

    --"Bulloch County, Ga. genealogical Source Material" by Alvaretta Kenan Register. This covers many Bryan County families. There are only a few of these left in the Statesboro, Ga. Genealogy Library.

    --"Records of Effingham County, Ga." by Caroline Price Wilson This covers many Bryan County families.

    --1820-1870 census of Bryan County, Ga.

    --Cemetary listings on Fort Stewart Reservation

    --Some marriage records (not all) of Bryan County, Ga.

    --"Abstracts of Court Records of Bryan County, Georgia" by Caroline Price Wilson

    --"Sweet Land of Liberty" by Robert Long Groover. These
    are almost gone. You may be lucky to find a copy.

    --"History of Bryan County Georgia, 1796-1984" family sketches.
    Sorry, this book is already out of print.

    --"Sims Family" compiled by Alfred Chassereau. Lots of Southern
    names here. This book is going fast, so hurry if you would like a copy. >

    KRISTOPHER SWINSON will do lookups in the following books:
  • "Ebenezer Cemetery Listing"--Many old German spellings
  • "Births and Deaths of Ebenezer"
  • THE GEORGIA DUTCH: FROM THE RHINE AND DANUBE TO THE SAVANNAH, 1733-1783, by George Fenwick Jones (UGA Press: Athens, 1992).
  • THE SALZBURGER SAGA: RELIGIOUS EXILES AND OTHER GERMANS ALONG THE SAVANNAH, by George Fenwick Jones (UGA Press: Athens, 1984).
  • GEORGIA SALZBURGERS & ALLIED FAMILIES
    • A few of the names I am researching:

    BARBER, BASHLOR, BOWEN, BRIDGES, BURNSED, BUTLER, BUXTON, CLANTON, COATES, CONE, DAVIS, DOWNS, DUGGAR, DUKES, ELLARBEE, ENGLISH, FUTCH, GEIGER, GRESHAM, GRIFFIN, HARN, HARVEY, JARRARD, JONES, LANIER, LEE, LIVELY, MATTHEWS, MCCARTHY, MCGILLIS, MILTON, NIX, ODUM, PARRISH, PRIESTER, ROE,SAULS, SHUMAN, SMITH, STANDLEY, STEWART, STRICKLAND, TOOTLE, WATERS, WILLIAMS, WILSON, WISE, WOLF, WORKS

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