Basic Genealogy Resources for Douglas County

This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources that relate to Douglas County.  They are located in Special Collections at the Lithia Springs Public Library.

Birth Records

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.

Cemeteries

The Lithia Springs Public 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

Census

You can may also search the Ancestry and HeritageQuest databases using the library’s Internet computers.  Ancestry and HeritageQuest have all of the available censuses for the U.S. and some other countries, and can be searched by name.

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.

Church Histories and Records

History of Lithia Springs Churches From the Beginning (videotape)

VC 975.8243 LITHIA

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

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) 

REF 975.8243 ALBER

Honestly, I Love You Douglas County (1983)

975.8243 WHATL

Marriage Records

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

Military

Georgia in the War, 1861-1865: a Compendium of Georgia Participants

REF 973.7458 JON

Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia

REF 973.7 ROS

You can also search the Ancestry database on the library computers.  Ancestry contains military records, in particular World War I draft cards and Civil War records.

Newspapers/Obituaries

Douglas County Sentinel 2000 – present

Yearbooks

The Docohan (Douglas County High School) 1950,1953,1954

REF 373.758243 DOCOH

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