Where to Find your Ancestors in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia

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Getting started on the Family Tree is easy — if you know what records to engage, and where to find them. Begin with a Pedigree Chart.

As a professional researcher, there are some areas of research that most people overlook.

The past is everywhere — in courthouse records, cemeteries, antique shops, local town historians, and old bibles, just to mention a few. Everyone has a story to tell!

They collected records available on GeorgiaPioneers required many years of diligent research. My beginning was mostly for my own families. However, every generation doubles in number, and I discovered hundreds of my kinfolks in America and scattered across Europe!

The Medieval period was interesting, and if lucky, you can find some records dating back to about 1400 in England.

My research was extensive and occupied many filing cabinets! In 1995, I committed all of my databases and publications to GeorgiaPioneers.com. But time goes on, and over the years, millions of additional records were added.

Hunting for ancestors is challenging, but also fun.

The following records may give you an idea of where to search.

Research Resources

County Records

  • Lunatics, Orphans, Paupers
  • Plats, Wills, Estates
  • Marriages, Tax Digests
  • City Directories (Georgia only)
  • Cemetery Databases (Georgia only)
  • Church Rolls (Georgia, South Carolina)
  • Obituaries 1740–1935 (Georgia)

Vital Records

  • Bibles (an old discovery of bibles in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia)
  • Births & Deaths (Georgia, Tennessee)

Immigrants

  • Passenger Lists (Georgia & Virginia)
  • Irish Pioneers to Kentucky
  • Early Irish Settlers to Virginia
  • Palatines in North Carolina 1709–1710
  • Early Emigrants to South Carolina
  • South Carolina Loyalists sent to East Florida 1774–1785

Genealogies

  • Biographies of the First Settlers of Georgia by Jeannette Holland Austin
  • The Genealogy Vault — 6000+ Genealogies

Military

  • The Confederate Dead Database - Lists births, deaths, obituaries, tombstones of Confederate Soldiers. 1500 pages (includes all States)
  • Civil War Records (all States)
  • Revolutionary War Burials (Georgia only)
  • Militia Records 1774–1838 & 1863 (Georgia only)
  • War of 1812 (Georgia, misc.)
  • World War I and II (Georgia, misc.)
  • Hero Imprints (new) by Jeannette Holland Austin (2023) (Revolutionary War)
  • Notes of Revolutionary War Soldiers (2024) by Jeannette Holland Austin
  • List of American Prisoners until 1776
  • 8,000 Prisons on board the British Ship the Jersey
  • Some Southern Naval Prisoners
  • List of Revolutionary War Soldiers of Virginia
  • Index to Saffell's List of Virginia Soldiers in Revolution
  • Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, McAllister's Data
  • Virginia Military Institute, Biographical Sketches
  • Virginians and the Continental Army, List of Events et al

Out-of-Print Books Collection

In addition to the genealogy and historical records listed above, the subscribers of Georgia Pioneers.com also have access to a vast collection of out-of-print books of great genealogical value. Surprisingly, these books assist in discovering the origin of ancestors, family stories, colonial and military records, marriages, journals, and other records not generally found elsewhere. Includes collections from various States, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.

Just one more Clue!

Visit old cemeteries and relatives, and ask for photographs of the kinfolks. You won't regret it!

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