What is a Delayed Birth Certificate?

LDS film #282923 Microfilm of Ledger (125 pages- estimated 3600 names).
Names entered alphabetically by date filed in office ... page headings as follows:
County ... Name of Parties ... Color ... Sex ... Date of Birth ... Parents Names ... Office File No ... Date Filed in Office (maiden names written under name of parties)

• includes places of birth other than Upson Co.
• includes parents names and some married names

Records Transferred to the Thomaston Archives

List all the property of an estate including personal property

Lists how the estate was handled..how the money, slaves, property were distributed (usually family members). Lots of valuable information about minor children and guardians as well.

Not many children were lucky enough to go to a plantation school. Most boys and girls had to go to "Old Field Schools," if they went to school at all. These schools were built in an old field, often a worn-out cotton patch. A neighborhood had several children in it, and the parents wanted a school for them. So somebody gave a field that was good for nothing else, and the neighbors all came in and built a one room log schoolhouse in this old field. They hired almost anyone who would take the job of schoolmaster.

The main thing the State did to help early eduction was to supply a "poor school fund." a part of this money the State used to send poor children to school for three years. Every student age person was listed who attended the school, so it doesn't necessarily mean they were poor.

These loose papers (submitted by teachers from the militia districts) name the children eligible for schooling (may have ages, others give birthdates)

VITAL RECORDS

Where to Write for State Records:
Vital Records-GA


Georgia Department of Human Resources, Vital Records service,
Room 217-H, 47 Trinity Avenue Southwest
Atlanta, Georgia 30334-1201    (404)656-4750



CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT:
Divorce, Civil Court, Land records from 1825



[According to "Georgia Genealogical Workbook" by Ted Brooke and Robert S.
Davis, Georgia began allowing divorce in 1793.  Petitions for divorce were
filed in the Superior Court of the county where the couple resided.  Until
1833 couples were also required to obtain the consent of the Georgia
legislature.   Ga. divorces could be obtained on the county level after 1847,
but information on divorces can be found in legislative acts and minutes until
1868.]

Delayed Birth Certificates

The Social Security Administration began in 1934 and benefits were instituted in 1937. In order to receive benefits, you needed to prove your birth.

Sometimes these records are not found in the county of the ACTUAL birth but rather in the county were the BENEFITS WERE APPLIED FOR. These delayed birth records could be for persons who were born as far back as 1840.

If you can not find a delayed birth record, you can send for the person's original SS application form. I did this for my grandfather after being told they did not have the record. On the original application, it states where he was born and his parents names. I believe the cost is $7.00 from the SS Adm. in D.C. It took them almost five months to get this record to me! Contributed by: Judy Hice

Learning about County Records

County Resources from Familytreemaker

Many helpful links to learn about using courthouse records and the kinds of records that exist.

Georgia Supreme Court

There is more than what's published. The original case files (in the early years, sometimes just a couple of sheets of paper -- but, always very interesting) are at the Georgia Archives in Atlanta. from GEORGIA-L posted by "Joan Pettengill" Sept 5, 1999.