*REPOSTING THESE GREAT WILKINSON CO. RESOURCES that are available thru your local LDS FHC ..... (for the new members who haven't yet seen this post). (You can print this out, read it over & highlight the ones you want to look at at your local FHC...take it there with you and if you don't know how to look them up and order them, the staff at the FHC will show you how!) *HI ALL: > As promised, here are some of the WLKNSN CO. resources you can order > from SLC, thru your local FHC. I mostly picked out microFICHE because they > are so inexpensive...ALL FICHE #'s begin with the number "6". All FILMS > start with other numbers, so that's how you will know if it's a Film or >Fiche. > Again, Fiche cost only 15 cents per sheet/fiche -- and most books, for > instance, can fit on only 3-5 fiche/sheets. Once at y our local FHC, they > stay there for good ("indefinitely"). Films cost $3.75 to order, take a > week or to to get there, and stay there for you and others to view, for 5 > weeks (BUT IF you need it there longer, you can renew it and keep it there). > This is not the ENTIRE list of what's available thru SLC on WILKINSON > CO., but a good start! SLC has TONS of stuff on every state, every county, > every subject!! (You can find all this, and much more, on the FHLC - > "Family History Library Catalog" at your local FHC). > ***** > ON FICHE: > 1860 Census...6105158 - (2 fiche= 30 cents!) * This would be excellent to > order! > Wlknsn Co.GA Hist.Collections, by J.T.Maddox...6048838 (9) (also >excellent!) > GA Cemeteries...6100651 (1) > *** > ON FILM: > Misc.GA Deeds 1835-1865...Film #0262733, Item 3 (Item# is impt. when > ordering!) (You can look > on the [Description of this film at the FHC, just type in the Film#, and > it gives TONS of names of people who are in these deeds, incl. my WM. WYNN] > > Wills & Cemeteries, 1817-1920...#1036239, Item 1 > Marriage Recs., 1821-1941.... > Marr. Licenses - 1823-1929...#1749659, Item 3 > " " , v.3, A-C 1821-1828, 1865-1903....#1737805 > " " v. D-E (that's what it says!) 1904-1941...1737806, Item 1-2 > (if confused abt this, you can look at it at the FHC) > Early Recs. of Wlknsn co. GA by Harold Heard (Marr. & Probate Recs. from > publ. County Histories) #0873814, Item 3 > Wlknsn Co.Marr. Recs., 1820-1882, Frances T. Ingmire [This is a book, dont > think you can order books anymore...they used to put them on Fiche for us, > but pretty sure they don't anymore--ask at FHC if interested, but pretty > sure they don't.] > Land Lottery, Wilknsn & Baldwin Cos. 1807-1808...#0465063, Item 4 > Land Lottery Grants, 1805-1860 (on 7 reels of film)-includes INDEX (yeah!) > [This shows "District #s, which you prob. wouldnt know which Dist. your > ancestor was in....you'd almost have to look at this at FHC to know which > to order...it also goes by YEARS]... > The years overlap....so I'd suggest first ordering the DIST. 1-28 INDEX > 1807-1828....#0514017 (that will prob. show you which Dist.) > Gold & Land Lottery Register 1832...054018 > Tombstone Recs: Polar Sprgs Cem, Toombsboro, Myrtle Sprgs, Ebenezer Church > Cemeteries, near toombsboro; Raniah & Snow Hill Cems., near Gordon. > #0007091, Item 13 > Wlknsn Co. Cem.Recs. - Contents contains records of family cem.records of: > Gilbert, Jackson, Kinney families - ...#0182825, Item 18-21 > ****** > ALSO AT MY LOCAL FHC, are the following resources on FICHE that were > ordered (mostly by me! They are now at my FHC indefinitely. You can do the > same! > You can also look at your local FHC and ask to look at the List of all the > Fiche they have there on GA): > WILKES CO. MARRIAGES, LAND LOTTERY OF GA, 37,000 EARLY GA MARR., INDEX TO > GA WILLS, INDEX TO SOME EARLY TX DIGESTS OF GA, CEM. RECS. OF GA, HISTORY > OF LAURENS CO.GA, EARLY GA MARR. ROUNDUP, 40,000 EARLY GA MARR., DEATH OF > REV WAR SOLD DIED GA, AND THEIR WIDOOWS, WILKES CO. 1860 CENSUS, > WASH.CO.GA NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS (THIS IS A GOOD ONE!-on 2 fiche).... > You can see there are lots of good things to order from SLC and have at > your local FHC. You can't take them home of course, but they are wonderful > resources you can have at your fingertips! Good luck! *TINA/CA* List Mgr.