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Georgia Genealogy Databases
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Georgia Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Georgia vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Georgia vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Georgia ancestors using Georgia census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Georgia Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Georgia) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: $10.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since January 1919. For earlier records in Atlanta or Savannah or other cities or counties, write to the Vital Records Office in county where event occurred. Additional copies of same record ordered at same time are $5.00 each except birth cards, which are $10.00 each. Money order should be made payable to Vital Records, GA. DHR. Personal checks are not accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (404) 656-4900. This is a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the Internet at Vital Records, GA. DHR. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: $10.00 Address: Remarks: Centralized State records since June 9, 1952. Certified copies of marriage documents up to 1966 are issued at State office. Inquiries about marriages occurring before June 9, 1952, will be forwarded to appropriate Probate Judge in county where license was issued. The state office does no record marriage licnse or applications after July 1, 1997. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Probate Judge in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: $2.00 for certification plus $0.50 per page. Address: See remarks Remarks: Centralized State records since June 9, 1952. Certified copies are not issued at State office. Inquiries will be forwarded to appropriate Clerk of Superior Court in county where divorce was granted. Event: Divorce (county) Address: See remarks Remarks: Clerk of Superior Court in county where divorce was granted. |
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