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CENSUS
RECORDS FOR FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA
Where to Find Them:
Both the Georgia Department of Archives and History and the FHL
have a complete set of Georgia census records and mortality schedules.
Many of the county libraries have the census for their counties
and some surrounding counties in their holdings.
Census Indexes -
• Soundex—1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
Industry and Agriculture Schedules.
• Industry—1820, 1880
• Agriculture—1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
Mortality Schedules.
• 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
Slave Schedules.
• 1850, 1860
1820 Census - is the first enumeration of Georgia's population
to have survived. Thus this makes it necessary to utilize other
lists and recods for the missing censuses. You can use land lottery,
tax lists and military records as a replacement for the census.
Georgia conducted state censuses for various years from 1787
to 1866. Only a relatively few of these returns survive, and
they are only lists of heads of households with some minor statistical
information. The returns prior to 1852 have been published in
various sources. Later census returns, when they survive, are
almost all on microfilm at the Georgia Department of Archives
and History. For what survives of Georgia state and federal census
records see Robert S. Davis, Research in Georgia -- pages 27–41,
44, 147–68.
The TAX DIGESTS:
R. J. Taylor, Jr., Foundation in
Atlanta has selected and indexed
some tax digests for the years 1789–1819. Tax records no
longer exist for every county, and others were omitted from the
foundation's publications, which makes the title misleading.
See An Index to Georgia Tax Digests (see Tax Records); Ruth Blair,
Some Early Tax Digests of Georgia (1926; reprint, Easley, S.C.:
Southern Historical Press, 1971); Virginia S. Wood and Ralph
V. Wood, The 1805 Land Lottery of Georgia (Cambridge, Mass.:
Greenwood Press, 1964), which lists nearly every Georgia head
of household in 1802–03, so is probably the best substitute
for the 1800 federal census of Georgia.
OTHER RECORDS TO UTILIZE:
Georgia records and research are discussed in detail in Robert
S. Davis, Jr., Research in Georgia (Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical
Press, 1980), and Ted O. Brooke and Robert S. Davis, Jr. Georgia
Genealogical Workbook (Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Genealogical Society,
1987). James E. Dorsey's Georgia Genealogy and Local History
(Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1983) offers articles and abstracts
of Georgia records. It was updated annually in the Georgia Historical
Quarterly until 1989 when the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly
began publishing the updates.
Sources for the state's
history include:
Coleman, Kenneth, ed. A History of
Georgia. 2d ed. Athens, Ga.:
University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Coulter, E. Merton. Georgia: A Short
History. Chapell Hill, N.C.:
University of North Carolina Press, 1964.
Colonial Families-Early Settlers Research
Early Georgia maps are crucial for
tracing colonial families. See Marion R. Hemperley, Map of Colonial
Georgia, 1773–1777 (Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Surveyor General
Department, 1979), which shows parish boundaries before 1777,
and his Georgia Early Roads and Trails Circa 1730–1850 (Atlanta,
Ga.: Georgia Surveyor General Department, 1979), which shows
migration trails in the state. The Georgia Department of Archives
and History also has maps of Georgia for sale showing the land
lottery and the militia districts.
For changes in Georgia county boundaries,
see William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the
U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790–1920 (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical
Publishing Co., 1987), and Pat Bryant and Ingrid Shields, Georgia
Counties: Their Changing Boundaries (Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Surveyor
General Department, 1983).
MAP COLLECTIONS - Historical GA Maps - The Georgia Surveyor General
Department, Floor 2V of the Georgia Department of Archives and
History, has the collection and will make copies for a fee.
The largest collection of historical
Georgia maps includes some 30,000 items, with many county maps
and large, detailed state maps. For current day maps of Georgia
counties and some cities -- you can order these for a fee from
Map Room, Georgia Department of Transportation, 2 Capitol Square,
Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
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