General Resources

Information and links to useful resources to aid you with your research.

The USGenWeb® Project - Tips, research aids and useful tools to help you research your family history.  Special Projects include: Archives Project, Archives Project for Dodge County, Family Group Sheets, Kidz Project, Tombstone & Photo Project, and US African American Griots Project.

The GAGenWeb Project - Resources for researching in the state of Georgia, and links to its counties.

Making of America (MoA) - is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) - A database containing information about the men who served on both sides during the Civil War, it also includes regimental histories.

Documenting the American South - Sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

FamilySearch Catalog - Search for books, images, records and other resources.

Vanishing Georgia - Photographic Collection of over 18,000 images is the result of a Georgia Archives project begun in the mid-1970s to locate and copy historically significant photographs held by individuals throughout Georgia. Vanishing Georgia's historical photographs document the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the state. The project visited 66 counties and includes images from almost all of Georgia's counties. Be sure to visit this excellent site!

Civil War Archive - Confederate Regimental Index for Georgia and Union Regimental Histories, Georgia, 1st Battalion Infantry.

Cyndi's List for Georgia - Links to various internet sites with Georgia genealogy and history.  African-American resources.

Researching Your Patriot Ancestor - Pre 1830 Bible Record Index

AfriGeneas - A site dedicated to African-American genealogy

African-American History - Discover the people and events that shaped African American history.

Freedmen's Bureau Online - Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, African American.

Tom Blake's Slave Data - Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870.

Amistead Research Center - Specializing in the history of African Americans and other ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities.

Bibliography

HathiTrust Digital Books - A collection of digitized books, searchable.

Google Books - Comprehensive index of full-text books.

The Online Books Page - Contains links to scores of valuable 19th century and earlier regional histories, biographies and other works.