This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources available through the Ephesus Public Library.
Birth Records |
Census |
Databases |
Deeds |
Local Histories |
Marriage Records |
Military |
Newspapers/Obituaries |
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The Heard County Health Department has Heard 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.
Search the Ancestry database for all U.S. census records from 1790 to 1930.
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.
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.
The clerk of court at the Heard County courthouse has deed books and their indexes.
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The Probate Court at the Heard County Courthouse has marriage and divorce records.
