This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources that relate to Douglas County. They are located in Special Collections at the Douglas County Public Library.
The Douglas County Health Department has Douglas 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.
The Douglas County library does not have a cemetery book but the library in Carrollton has:
Some Douglas County, Georgia Cemeteries
SP 929.5758 243 SOME – at the Carrollton library
SP MFILM 929.3758 CENSUS
An index for the 1860 federal census of Georgia (book)
SP 929.3758 GEORG
You may also search the Ancestry and HeritageQuest databases using the library computers. Ancestry and HeritageQuest have all of the available censuses for the U.S. and some other countries, and can be searched by name.
Missing Dates
1890 Census records were lost in a fire; no library has them.
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.
First United Methodist Church, 1850-1980 SP 287.6785 243 HISTO
Mount Zion Baptist Church SP 286.1758 243 MOUNT
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.
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 are
shelved together at SP 929.2, then ordered alphabetically by family name.
Old Campbell County,
Georgia Land Records, 1828-1854
SP 929.3758 237 OLD
(In 1870 the northwestern half of Campbell County became Douglas County.)
Douglas County, Georgia: From Indian Trail to Interstate 20 (1987)
REF 975.8243 DAVIS
The Heritage of Douglas County, Georgia : 1870-2002
SP 929.3758243 HERIT
Portraits of History: Lithia Springs (2000)
SP 975.8243 ALBER
Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of Douglasville from 1895, 1900, 1905, and 1911 are
available on the library computers through the
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map database in GALILEO.
The Probate Court at the Douglas County Courthouse has Douglas County marriage and divorce records.
Georgia’s Roster of the Revolution
973.3 KNIGH
Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia
SP 929.3758 ROSTER
Index to Georgia's Confederate Pension Supplements
SP 929.3758 BROOK
You can also search the Ancestry database on the library computers. Ancestry contains military records, especially World War I draft cards and Civil War records.
The local newspaper goes back to 1930 but there are several large gaps.
Polk Cross Reference Directory for Atlanta, Georgia – Area 1 (Including Fulton, Douglas, Cobb) - 1997
REF 975.823 POLK
