Family and Genealogy
Family and Genealogy
Federal Population Schedules
Industry and Agriculture Schedules
The 1820 census is the earlest enumeration of Georgia’s populations to have survived, More than forty percent of Georgia’s population (and likely seventy percent of the frontier migration families) lived in Wilkes County in 1790, making the numerous publications of that one county’s extensive surviving records especially valuable census substitute. The 1820 census of Georgia is also lost for Franklin, Rabun, and Twiggs counties; for many other counties, names were often omitted or unreadable. Land lottery, military, tax lists, and other records are availabe as census substitutes and supplements for the 1820 and earlier censuses. 1
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. To see what has survived of Georgia state and federal census records, see Robert S. Davis, Research in Georgia, 27-41, 44,, 147-68.
Georgia Census Records at Ancestry.com
In addition to the U.S. Federal Census Collection at Ancestry.com, there is a collection of Georgia census indexes that include the following: 1790 Tax Substitute Index 1792-1819 Tax lists Index; 1800 Oglethorpe County Territorial Census Index; 1820 Federal Census Index; 1830 Federal Census Index; 1838 State Census; 1840 Pensioners List; 1845 State Census Index; 1850 Federal Census Index; 1860 Federal Census Index; 1860 Slave Schedule; 1870 Federal Census Index; 1890 Veterans Schedule. You can search the collection at Georgia Census, 1790-1890.
Also at Ancestry.com are images of a book entitled The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia that was compiled by Marie De Lamar and Elisabeth Rothstein that attempts “to place as many person as possible in their county of residence in 1790.”
Georgia Counties Map Attribute: By US Census Bureau – http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/georgia.gif, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6531503.
RedBook — Georgia Family History Research.
FamilySearch.org Georgia Census – Online Resources
FamilySearch.org – Georgia Online Genealogy Records
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness – State of Georgia Records Guide
Ancestry.com – Georgia Data Collections
Rootsweb Freepages – Georgia Genealogy Records
Genealoger.com – Georgia Genealogy Resources