African American Genealogical Research
in or around Lamar County, Georgia

• African American/Indian Narratives- Index (Lamar County Archives)
• An excellent article about how to research slaves by David E. Patterson on the Pike County, Georgia, GAGenWeb page.
• Receipt for the sale of a slave named Samuel to Joseph Travis Fincher of Pike County, Georgia
• Pike County, Georgia, Court of Ordinary guardianship assignment of Lewis & Eliza King and their children (a free black family) to Joseph Fincher
• Contract for the Hire of Negro Man Named Dawson by John Neal and J. T. Fincher
• "Raising a Cotton Gin House in Pike County, Georgia," (from the February 1872 diary of Joseph Travis Fincher).
  Gives names of Caucasian and African American neighbors who helped with the gin house raising.
• Pike County, Georgia, African-American Records
• Slave Narratives Index (Lamar County Archives)
• African-American genealogy & history on Cyndi's List