Basic Genealogy Resources for Haralson County

 

This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources that relate to Haralson County.  They are located in Special Collections at the Warren P. Sewell Library of Bremen.

 

Birth Records Cemeteries
Census Databases
Family Histories Local Histories  
Marriage Records Military  
Newspapers/Obituaries Pension Records
Telephone & Address Directories Yearbooks  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birth Records

The Haralson County Health Department has Haralson County birth records (from 1919 to the present).  If you are looking for the names of someone’s parents, you may want to also look in the Census for the years when the person was a child.

 

 

 

 

Cemeteries

 

Haralson County, Georgia Cemeteries (2004)

SP 929.575838 HARAL

 

Haralson County Cemeteries (1999)
SP 929.575838 HARAL

 

Old Holcombe Cemetery, Bremen, Georgia (1998)

SP 929.3 SUBER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Census

Haralson County

 

The Haralson County census has been alphabetized in these books:

 

1860, 1870, 1880, 1900

SP 929.375838 HARAL

 

The 1930 census for Haralson County is available on microfilm at:

SP 929.3 GEORGIA CENSUS 1930 ROLL 368

 

Georgia

 

The entire 1860 census for all counties in Georgia is available on microfilm.

 

The entire 1870 census for all counties in Georgia is available in a book at:

SP 929.3758 GEORG

 

Other years

 

On the library computers you can search the Ancestry database, which has all of the U.S. censuses, including the 1890 census fragment (most of that census was destroyed in a fire). 

 

Census records for 1940 will not be available until 2012, for privacy reasons. Census records for 1950 will be made available in 2022, and so on.

 

About missing years

 

The 1890 Census records were lost in a fire; only fragments remain.

 

Census records for 1940 will not be available until 2012, for privacy reasons. Census records for 1950 will be made available in 2022, and so on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Databases

 

Ancestry Library Edition is a searchable database that includes U.S. and other nations’ census records; birth, marriage and death records; military records; court, land and probate records; immigration records; family and local histories; and more.

This database can only be used at the library, on the computers with Internet access. 

HeritageQuest is a searchable database that includes U.S. census records, searchable family and local history books, and PERSI, an index to genealogy and local history periodicals.

This database can be searched from your computer at home.  Please pick up the GALILEO password at the library to do this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family Histories

 

Family histories are shelved at 929.2, alphabetically by family name.

           

 

 

 

 

 


 

Local Histories

Towns in Haralson County

 

Bremen, Georgia 100 years, 1883-1983

SP 975.838 BREME

 

The Bremen City Schools : a Century of Education

SP 975.838 BREME

 

Tallapoosa, Georgia (1952)

SP 975.838 TRIMB

 

The History of Bremen SP975.838 HISTO

Haralson County

 

Haralson County, Georgia: A History (1994)

SP 975.838 HARAL

 

Haralson County History Book (1983)

SP 975.838 HARAL

 

Haralson’s Heritage (1995)

SP 975.838 WILBU

 

Haralson County, GA : a Resource Guide for the Teaching of Social Studies in Haralson County, GA (1991)

SP 975.838 WILBU

 

Hungarians and Winemaking in Haralson County

SP 975.838 HANNA

 

Historical Sketch of Hungarian and Czechoslovakian Colonies in Haralson Co.

SP 975.838 RIVER

 

Magyars and Slovaks in Rural Georgia

SP 975.838 RIVER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marriage Records

 

Haralson County, Georgia, Marriage Records 1856-1940

SP 929.375838 HARAL

 

Haralson County, Georgia Marriages 1897-1909

On microfilm

 

The Probate Court at the Haralson County Courthouse has more marriage and divorce records.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Military

 

Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865: Index
REF 973.7 ROS

 

Register of Graduates United States Military Academy 1802-1983

 

History of Camp Wheeler, Georgia

SP 975.8552 MCKEN

 

You can also search for military records, especially Civil War records and World War I draft cards, in the Ancestry database on the library’s computers.

 

 

 

 

 


 

Newspapers/Obituaries

 

The following newspapers are on microfilm:

 

Bremen Gateway 1915 - present

(Most recent years are only available in paper.)

 

Banner Messenger 1891-1899

 

Haralson County Tribune 1898-1985

 

Tallapoosa Journal 1930-1983

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pension Records

 

Haralson County, Georgia Pension Roll

Miscellaneous dates

On microfilm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone and Address Directories

 

Hill-Donnelly Cross Reference Directory:

Carrollton-Newnan-Lagrange, Georgia and Vicinity

REF 975.839 HILL

2000, 2001

 

Polk’s Bremen, Tallapoosa, Buchanan City Directory

1980, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yearbooks

Bremen
Blue Devil, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1972, 1974

 

West Georgia College Chieftain, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976

 

For more yearbooks, check with the library or media center at the particular school.