Basic Genealogy Resources for Paulding County

Paulding County Genealogical Society 

This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources that relate to Carroll County.  They are located in Special Collections at the Maude Ragsdale Public Library in Hiram.

Birth Records

The Paulding County Health Department has Paulding 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

Cemeteries of Paulding County, Georgia (2006)

SP 929.5758373 CEMET

Census

Ancestry Library Edition, which is available on the library computers, allows you to search all U.S. census records by name.

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.

Church Histories

Bethel United Methodist Church: A History of Her People (1998)

SP 287.6758373 MEEK

The First Hundred and Fifty Years of Pumpkinvine Baptist Church (1995)

SP 286.1758 373 FIRST

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.

Local Histories

The Heritage of Paulding County, Georgia, 1832 -1999

SP 929.3758 373 HERIT

Paulding County, Its People and Places (1983)

SP 929.3758373 FOSTE

Reflections: People and Places in Dallas and Paulding in the 1930’s

REF 929.3758373 BYRD

Marriage Records

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

Military

Cemeteries of Paulding County, Georgia with alphabetical listing of Civil War soldiers

SP 929.5758 373 CEMET

You can use the library computers to search Ancestry Library Edition, which has more military records, including Civil War records and World War I draft cards.

Newspapers/Obituaries

Dallas New Era – one year’s worth – paper copies only.

Paulding County Neighbor – one year’s worth – paper copies only.

Yearbooks

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