I tried to go to it, but the server just hangs up and it won't load the page. I wonder if perhaps there is something wrong with the URL? Flora ----- Original Message ----- From: "KM5TQ@wbok.net" <km5tq@wbok.net> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 12:12 AM Subject: [GEORGIA] Confederate Pension Records Web Site ...Need help > Would someone see if they can access the following link? > This link was on the Secretery of State web page. It is supposed to be a link to Confederate Pension Records. > http://docuweb.gsu.edu/ > > Thank you > Glenna > km5tq@wbok.net > myfamilypride@yahoo.com > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Would someone see if they can access the following link? This link was on the Secretery of State web page. It is supposed to be a link to Confederate Pension Records. http://docuweb.gsu.edu/ Thank you Glenna km5tq@wbok.net myfamilypride@yahoo.com

We are so happy to have this bio to share, and I do hope you will pass it along to some other lists who might know more about this family or the church. He played a very important role in Georgia political life as well as his church. Clarence D. White CCdwhite@cs.com Rev. Jesse Dinkins African-American Politician and Methodist Minister from Schley County, Georgia By Clarence D. White Rev. Jesse Dinkins was born a slave around 1825 in Schley County. In October 1867 during Reconstruction and at age 43, he was elected as a Republican to represent the county at the Constitutional Convention, the mandate of which was to craft a new constitution for the state under provisions of the Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress in March 1867. The first and last African-American to represent Schley in the Georgia Legislature, Dinkins was one of 37 delegates of African-American heritage, all Republicans, elected to the convention. Perhaps the most illustrious member of this group and its acknowledged leader would be Rev. Henry McNeil Turner (1834-1915), then of Macon, who was further elected to serve in the state legislature after the convention and who was elected and consecrated bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880. Like Turner and many other black convention delegates, Dinkins was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a denomination always noted for political activism and protest. He was the founding pastor of Union Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ellaville. In a statement in the 1982 History of Schley County, Georgia, Ozie Shipp Wall Thompson reported that after the Civil War Rev. Dinkins led a movement to secure land on which to build a church. Initially, she said, services were held under a bush arbor. Dinkins and his flock purchased land for the church in 1867. AME Bishop Wesley John Gaines, in his book African Methodism in the South; or Twenty-Five Years of Freedom of 1890, listed Dinkins among nineteen men elected to deacon's orders at the February 1869 Annual Conference of the Georgia Conference held at Columbus. The census of 1870 enumerated Dinkins in the 961st Militia District (Ellaville) of Schley County. Although illiterate, he nevertheless had personal property valued at $300. His household included his wife Drucilla whose age is given, implausibly, as 28; a son Jesse, 22; son Jasper, 20; daughter Isabella, 19; son Charles, 14; daughter Molly, 13; daughter Jane, 12; daughter Ada, 11; daughter Eliza , 10; daughter Susan, 8; daughter Emma, 6; daughter Mary, 2; Jesse McCormick, 80; Malinda McCormick, 82; Eli McCormick, 8; and Benjamin Stewart, 85. By 1880 Jesse Dinkins could read and write, according to the census of that year, which gave his age as 62 and that of his wife Drucilla as 45. Other household members were son Jesse, 30; son Charles, 22, daughter Ada, 20; daughter Eliza, 19; daughter Emma, 13; daughter Mollie, 12; daughter Kallie, 11; daughter Lillie, 7; son Lucious?, 4; daughter Sopia, 3; daughter Eldora, 2; granddaughter Mary T., 3; granddaughter Artelia, 2; and nephew Eli McCormick, 18. When Rev. Dinkins arrived in Atlanta in December 1867 for the convention, he was a member of a five-man group of delegates from the 13th Election District, which included Macon, Schley and Sumter Counties, and one of 165 delegates elected to the convention. Other delegates from the 13th were Robert Lumpkin, an African-American from Macon County (Oglethorpe), later elected to the state House of Representatives; F.T. Snead from Macon County; John E. Hall of Sumter; and H.K. McCay of Sumter. The records of the proceedings of the Convention are gathered in the multi-volume Confederate Records of Georgia, compiled by Allen D. Candler. Professor Edmund L. Drago writing in his Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia; A Splendid Failure, a book published in 1982, provides a vivid account of the political wrangling between Democrats and Republicans which resulted in a constitution that gave only limited rights to the ex- slaves. Blacks were denied the right to hold office or serve on juries, for example. In the elections of April 1868, the constitution was ratified, a Republican was elected governor, and the Republicans managed to achieve slight majorities in both houses, including a few blacks. Shortly after the legislative session got underway in July 1868, Democrats, joined by some white Republicans, challenged the right and eligibility of the black legislators to sit in the legislature, setting the stage for their eventual expulsion from the legislature and engendering a climate of hostility and violence against blacks. Henry McNeil Turner and his fellow black Republican legislators remained expelled until the Republican-dominated Congress passed the Congressional Reorganization Act of 1869, which reconvened the 1868 Georgia legislature, reseated the alienated blacks, and purged some Democrats under the Fourteenth Amendment. The time and place of Rev. Dinkins's demise are not known. He and his progeny seem to have moved away from Ellaville. Today a large contingent of Dinkinses are located in and around Macon, but it is not clear that they are descended from the Rev. Jesse Dinkins. Clarence D. White E-mail: CCdwhite@cs.com April 2004

Hello, I'm doing research on people who are buried in Valdosta's Sunset Hills cemetery. Has anyone done a survey of this cemetery? How can I get a copy of it? I look forward to hearing from someone. Thanks for your help. ray

Linda Sparks Starr, if you are on this list please email me off list. We need to talk. Thanks, Debbie

Alabama Genealogical Society is pleased to announce Sharon Tate Moody will be the speaker for our Spring Meeting Saturday, May 1, 2004. Sharon Tate Moody is an Associate of the Board for Certification of Genealogists as a Certified Genealogical Records Specialist with expertise in 19th century Georgia records and Georgia court records. Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM Place: Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL Theme: "Georgia On Your Mind" Subjects: "They claimed Indian blood: Using Guion Miller Rolls to research ancestors who weren't Native Americans" "And the Winner is . Keys to Treasures in Georgia's Land Lotteries" "The State vs. your ancestors: Using Georgia's Court Records"

Check with the Probate Judge's office in that county. In the early days of death certificates, sometimes the information was not sent to the state. The other suggestion -- check if the nearest newspaper(s) for an obituary. Phyllis ----------- In a message dated 4/22/2004 11:10:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gaspires@bellsouth.net writes: > > > On the 1920 Coffee County Census, Riley Bailey was living in house with > Warren Spires. Riley Bailey was age, 70, with wife, Amanda, age, 50, and > son, Leonard, age, 17. In the 1930 Census of Coffee County I cannot find > him. So he must have died somewhere between 1920 and 1930. I was told by > my grandmother that he is buried over at Deberry Baptist Church Cemetery > in an unmarked grave next to his wife Amanda "Bryant" Bailey. The only > name I know him by is "Riley Bailey", and cannot find him in the Georgia > Death Index and the funeral home cannot find his funeral card > information. > > I would like to know how to find out his death date? > > Does anyone know if Deberry Baptist Church over in Coffee County, > Georgia keeps records of the people buried in the cemetery? > > > > Larry Spires > > > > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid= > 1237

On the 1920 Coffee County Census, Riley Bailey was living in house with Warren Spires. Riley Bailey was age, 70, with wife, Amanda, age, 50, and son, Leonard, age, 17. In the 1930 Census of Coffee County I cannot find him. So he must have died somewhere between 1920 and 1930. I was told by my grandmother that he is buried over at Deberry Baptist Church Cemetery in an unmarked grave next to his wife Amanda "Bryant" Bailey. The only name I know him by is "Riley Bailey", and cannot find him in the Georgia Death Index and the funeral home cannot find his funeral card information. I would like to know how to find out his death date? Does anyone know if Deberry Baptist Church over in Coffee County, Georgia keeps records of the people buried in the cemetery? Larry Spires

Tami -- Check you this page -- it is part of the Georgia Gen Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/table.htm These maps are also VERY useful to see what county was next to what county at a specific time: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/placenamesindex.htm Good Luck, Valerie (Johnson) Freeman Tustin, California "Remember your history. To forget is to not belong." ~~ Charlotte A. Black Elk Could someone please tell me what counties were around in 1790 in Georgia? The other day someone sent me a link but it didn't come through. Thanks, Tami Johnston-Parise

I have copied several things on Harris County - I'm not sure I know how to get them uploaded, I can put it in Word, I think, its lots so it will take some time - there is a book in the courthouse that lists each county, not sure when it starts, but I have pre-1800 from Ga., then I copied Houston, Bibb and Harris, think these are after 1800. delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara S Stock" <bsstock@comcast.net> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:43 PM Subject: RE: [GEORGIA] Harris County marriages > Delilah: I surely would. We do have some Harris County marriage records on > the Harris County GenWeb site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaharris/harrismar.htm but I'm sure we don't have > them all. If you took down the name of the marriage book, that would also > be very helpful to researchers. You can send the records in a MSWord > document or as a text file attachment or in an email. Thanks. > > Barbara Smallwood Stock > CC for Harris County GAGenWeb > > -----Original Message----- > From: Delilah [mailto:diamond6468@mindspring.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:03 PM > To: GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GEORGIA] Harris County marriages > > > I copied some of the marriages from Harris County, and Bibb County, Ga., if > interested, write me off-line. > delilah > > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett > kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Looking for information about the Holzendorfs who immigrated to Georgia about 1733. I have read the Huxford Books and am looking for more documentation. Any ideas would be helpful. Debbie @ Holtzendorff.com

If you will go to: http://gagen.i-found-it.net/gacounties.html, you will find all the Georgia Counties listed and who they were named for. If you print all of these it will be five pages. Quite a list. Hope this is what you were looking for, and maybe more. Kay (Fiveash) ----- Original Message ----- From: <TYBEETIDE@aol.com> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Counties > In a message dated 4/21/04 2:06:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > ImHereWhereRU27@aol.com writes: > > > Could someone please tell me what counties were around in 1790 in Georgia? > > Franklin; Wilkes; Greene; Richmond; Burke; Washington; Effingham; Chatham; > Liberty; Glynn; Camden > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Delilah: I surely would. We do have some Harris County marriage records on the Harris County GenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaharris/harrismar.htm but I'm sure we don't have them all. If you took down the name of the marriage book, that would also be very helpful to researchers. You can send the records in a MSWord document or as a text file attachment or in an email. Thanks. Barbara Smallwood Stock CC for Harris County GAGenWeb -----Original Message----- From: Delilah [mailto:diamond6468@mindspring.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:03 PM To: GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GEORGIA] Harris County marriages I copied some of the marriages from Harris County, and Bibb County, Ga., if interested, write me off-line. delilah ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

In a message dated 4/21/04 2:06:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ImHereWhereRU27@aol.com writes: > Could someone please tell me what counties were around in 1790 in Georgia? Franklin; Wilkes; Greene; Richmond; Burke; Washington; Effingham; Chatham; Liberty; Glynn; Camden

Tami, This site http://www.genealogyinc.com/maps/uscm.htm is really neat. It shows what counties were in a particular state during a particular year. I don't remember if you have to have java or not but I'm sure it will tell you. Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: <ImHereWhereRU27@aol.com> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:06 PM Subject: [GEORGIA] Counties Could someone please tell me what counties were around in 1790 in Georgia? The other day someone sent me a link but it didn't come through. Thanks, Tami Johnston-Parise JOHNSTON/HOFFMANN/WEISHEIMER/SPROUL(e)/SHERWOOD/KISEL(RISEL)/HOERNER/ZWEIFEL /DOCLAUR/USNER/MCDERMOTT ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Could someone please tell me what counties were around in 1790 in Georgia? The other day someone sent me a link but it didn't come through. Thanks, Tami Johnston-Parise JOHNSTON/HOFFMANN/WEISHEIMER/SPROUL(e)/SHERWOOD/KISEL(RISEL)/HOERNER/ZWEIFEL/DOCLAUR/USNER/MCDERMOTT

I copied some of the marriages from Harris County, and Bibb County, Ga., if interested, write me off-line. delilah

Thanks ---- <James T.> ----- Original Message ----- From: "M&J Stevens" <momo7@sover.net> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Death Records > An easy way to find (almost) anything is to > enter the information in your search box of > your home page such as 'Yahoo search', > ----or click on the following url: > > http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=Georgia+Death+Records > > ----Prof.M.C.Stevens > ==================== > James T Lord wrote: > > > Seeking information on how to pull up Georgia Vital Records -(Death Index) > > > > jamestlord@charter.net > > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Georgia list, send only the word > > UNSUBSCRIBE to GEORGIA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > > List to GEORGIA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Georgia list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to GEORGIA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > List to GEORGIA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Thanks --- James T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Murray" <lhmurray@bellsouth.net> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Death Records > Lots of individual Georgia counties have posted their death records on their > websites. As for the statewide index, the only one I know of is the one at > Ancestry which is probably by subscription only. > > This is a very helpful list. If the index is available online elsewhere, I > am sure someone will post that information for you, and I am sorry that I > wasn't able to be of more help. > > Linda in Marietta > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James T Lord" <jamestlord@charter.net> > To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:58 AM > Subject: [GEORGIA] Death Records > > > > Seeking information on how to pull up Georgia Vital Records -(Death Index) > > > > jamestlord@charter.net > > > > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Georgia list, send only the word > > UNSUBSCRIBE to GEORGIA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > > List to GEORGIA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Georgia list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to GEORGIA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > List to GEORGIA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

An easy way to find (almost) anything is to enter the information in your search box of your home page such as 'Yahoo search', ----or click on the following url: http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=Georgia+Death+Records ----Prof.M.C.Stevens ==================== James T Lord wrote: > Seeking information on how to pull up Georgia Vital Records -(Death Index) > > jamestlord@charter.net > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Georgia list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to GEORGIA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > List to GEORGIA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237