Georgia History & Genealogy Room
NEWS
Due to severe funding cuts, the LaFayette-Walker County Library hours have been cut to 30 hours per week.
Our wonderful Georgia History Room will only be open 13 hours, Fridays from 10:00-5:00 and Saturdays from 10:00-3:00. During these times the room will have someone here to assist you as much as possible. The room will be locked the other 17 hours.
The shortage of hours the room will be open will greatly restrict the ability to respond to special requests. These requests will have to be by mail or e-mail, NOT by phone. Your patience will be appreciated while your request is handled.
Address mail to:
Georgia History & Genealogy Room
Cherokee Regional Library
1105 North Main Street
LaFayette, GA 30728
email: lwgeorgiahistory@chrl.org
The Doris Coulter Hetzler Memorial Georgia History & Genealogy Room houses a special collection of books, microfilm, files, and other materials needed for genealogical and historical research. Although the collection focuses on Georgia (primarily Northwest Georgia), other states are represented. Adjoining states and migration route states are of interest to our researchers. The Walker County Historical Society collection is in our Georgia Room, plus local organizations and individuals donate materials. Carol Smith manages the Georgia History and Genealogy Room.
Below is a list of useful websites and databases for use in researching your family tree.
Access Genealogy – contains a number of genealogy resources including Native American.
AfriGeneas – African Ancestored genealogy.
Ancestry Library Edition – (This database is not available outside of the library.) This collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as:
- U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930
- Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps
- American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes)
- Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes)
- The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630
- Social Security Death Index (updated monthly)
- WWI Draft Registration Cards
- Federal Slave Narratives
- Civil War collection
Census Online – The web’s largest directory of links to online census transcriptions!
Cyndi’s List – a list of 270 + genealogy links on the Internet.
Digital Library of Georgia – Georgia’s history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.
FamilySearch – free family history, family tree, and genealogy records and resources from around the world provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
GeorgiaInfo – Information about Georgia history and government as well as county information.
Georgia Stories – For anyone interested in Georgia history, the site is coordinated with the excellent series Georgia Stories produced by Georgia Public Broadcasting Education
Heritage Quest – includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790-1930, information on places and people described in over 26,000 local and family histories, search PERSI which indexes over 2.1 million genealogy and local history articles, search selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, search for individuals in Freedman’s Bank (1865-1874) founded to serve African Americans, and search the memorials, petitions, and private relief actions of the U.S. Congress in the U.S. Serial Set.
Immigration History – Ellis Island records
New Georgia Encyclopedia – an authoritative source on the people, places, events, and institutions of Georgia.
Vanishing Georgia – comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history
If you would be interested in participating in digging up some family history, let Carol know.
You may call 706-638-4912 for more information.
