GAWARE

Welcome to Ware County, Georgia

The County Coordinator for the Ware County GA GenWeb site is Kati Smith

The Coastal Region includes the following counties: Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Echols, Effingham, Evans, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Pierce, Tattnall, Toombs, Ware, Wayne. The Regional Assistant is Deborah Broxson.

Jan Cortez maintains the Ware County Archives. To visit them click here.

U. S. Military Information

The State Coordinator is Vivian Price Saffold. If you have interest in adopting a county, drop him a line and let him know. The Georgia GenWeb Project State page can be found here. For more information on the county coordinator guidelines for setting up a county page click here.

To visit the US GenWeb home page click here.

To visit the World GenWeb project click here.

Ware County, Georgia was the 60th Georgia county and
was formed on December 15, 1824, when cut from a portion of Appling. Ware County was named for Georgia Senator Nicholas Ware 1769-1824. [this link will take you to Congressional Bios; Nicholas Ware]. Eventually, four additional counties were cut from portions of Ware County. With just over 900 square miles of land, Ware remains the largest county in Georgia.

Clinch County, was formed as the 94th Georgia county, on February 14, 1850 from portions of Ware and Lowndes Counties.
Coffee County was formed on February 9, 1854, as the 107th Georgia county from portions of Ware, Clinch, Irwin and Telfair Counties.
Pierce County was formed as the 119th Georgia county on December 18, 1857 from portions of Appling and Ware Counties.
Bacon County was formed as the 149th Georgia county on July 27, 1917 from portions of Ware, Pierce and Appling Counties.

The County Seat for Ware County, Georgia is Waycross. Though once known as Tebeauville. The name Waycross came into being because of the importance of the railroad in the area. A main junction is located in Waycross, CSX Transportation's "Rice Yard" is located here.

Based on the US Postal Service's designation of mail delivery, the following cities are located in Ware County: (1)Manor, (2)Millwood, (3)Waresboro, & (4)Waycross, partially located in Ware and a portion in Pierce County, Georgia.

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Ware County GenWeb Project	Beach Community Ware County, GA*	Books and other Resources
Bible Records	CCC Camp 1413	Maps
Biographies	City Hall and the City Auditorium	Judy Roberts Memorial Page
Cemetery Records	Ware County Court House	Georgia Archives Search Page
Census Records	Ware County Court House Photographs	Georgia Digital Map Library*
Church Records	Ware County Churches	Destruction of Court Houses in Georgia*
Marriage Records	Postcard and Photographs	1827 Georgia Land Lottery
Historical Records	Newspaper Clippings	Georgia Links*
Ware County Military Records	Vital Records for Georgia	Georgia GenWeb Regions*
Ware County Military Units	Wiregrass and Segakin Mail Lists	African American Resources*
Waresborro Postmasters 1827-1945*	Ware County and Wiregrass Area Families	Georgia GenWeb Tombstone Project*
Obituaries	Kith and Kin of Ware County	Destroyed Courthouses
Obituaries 2*	Chapters in Ware County History
Early Ware County Businesses	Ware County Volunteers
Carswell and Nicholas		* known broken link




Pogofest	Post Query	View Queries

E-Mail Lists

Ware County, Georgia has an E-mail Mail List, named GAWARE. You can access the GAWARE Archives here or at the RootsWeb Mailing Lists Index site, you can scroll through and search or browse the many mail lists archived on Rootsweb.

In the "List" mode you will receive each individual message as it is posted to the GAWARE List. Some people find this is 'too much' mail, so there is also Digest mode. In the "Digest" mode, you will receive a digest of a number of messages sent together after a certain period of time.
To subscribe in List Mode, send the single word "SUBSCRIBE", do not use the quotation marks when you subscribe, place the one word in the subject line and in the body of the message, to GAWARE-L-Request@rootsweb.com
To subscribe in Digest Mode, send the single word "SUBSCRIBE" do not use the quotation marks when you subscribe, place the one word in the subject line and in the body of the message, to GAWARE-D-Request@rootsweb.com

If you subscribe to both list modes, you will receive duplicates of all the messages. Some have inadvertently done this and were distressed to receive so much mail. GAWARE can be busy at times.

Please note that if you post a message to one of the lists above that you must be subscriber to receive the reply.

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**Visit Our Neighboring Counties**
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Page last updated Monday, 02 November 2009