Union Co., GA Public Records on microfilm at the GA State Archives in Atlanta

Union Co., GA
Public Records at the GA State Archives in Atlanta
or
Available at the LDS Family History Centers
Prepared by Carol Ann Tindell Jun 2001

Holdings Title and Control No.	Description
Superior Court -Military discharge records, 1922-1963 Control No.: GASV91-A73	The clerk of the superior court of each county shall record and index the discharge certificates of former members of the armed services of the United States residing in the county, showing their discharge from military service. Any records made before 1921 Aug. 8 by the clerk of superior court in substantial compliance with this law are considered as recorded under the terms of this law. (Ga. L. 1921, p. 184) This series consists of bound transcriptions of honorable discharge papers that detail a serviceperson's military career. Standard forms were widely used, either issued by the state or by the federal government during and after WWII. Minimum information includes name, date and place of birth, physical description, marital status, rank, date and place entered service, awards, training, decorations, duty stations, and date and place discharged. Arranged chronologically by date recorded and indexed alphabetically by first letter of surname of ex-serviceperson and chronologically thereunder.
Court of Ordinary - Administrators' bond books, 1877-1941 Control No.: GASV90-A1242	Administrators were assigned by the Court of Ordinary to the estates of people who died without a will. The administrators posted a bond with the Court of Ordinary, which insured that the administrator performed his duties as required by law. Bonds were a part of British common law and were required by British statutes governing Georgia dating from 1670. The amount of the bond varied but was usually based on a multiple of the value of the estate in question. Information on the bonds includes: name of estate, name of administrator, amount of bond, names of securities, name of local official or office, and date of bond. This series consists only of those administrators' bonds recorded in volumes set aside specifically for administrators' bonds. Other administrators' bonds have been recorded in volumes labeled Miscellaneous Records, Administrators' and Guardians' Bonds, Ordinary Minutes, and Inferior Court Minutes.
Court of Ordinary - Letters of administration books, 1877-1941 Control No.: GASV90-A1132	Administrators were assigned by the Court of Ordinary to the estates of people who died without making a will. Administrators swore or affirmed that they would meet all requirements of the law in settling the deceased's estate. Letters (that is, the authority of the court) were then granted, permitting a person to take charge and administer the estate. Books in which are recorded the letters of administration.
Court of Ordinary - Inventory and appraisement books, 1866-1928 Control No.: GASV90-A828	Books in which are copied the itemized lists of the articles comprising the property of deceased persons as scheduled by the appraisers appointed to inventory and value the estate. Reel by reel listing is available in repository. Additional inventories and appraisements may be found in Miscellaneous Estate Records.
Court of Ordinary - Annual return books, 1877-1920 Control No.: GASV90-A828	The Inferior Court was a common law court established in each county by the Georgia constitution of 1789. A constitutional amendment of 1852 provided for a separate Court of Ordinary for each county which took on the Inferior Court's probate functions. Annual accounts of receipts and expenditures in behalf of a deceased person's estate during the preceding year by the estate's executor or administrator, together with notes or memorandums of any facts necessary to explain the estate's condition.
Court of Ordinary ( - Marriage licenses and certificates, 1833-1957 Control No.: GASV90-A704	The Probate Judge (before 1975, the Ordinary and before 1852, the Clerk of the Inferior Court) issued licenses authorizing a justice or minister to perform a marriage ceremony. Before 1805, recording practices varied considerably from county to county. After 1805, the person who performed the ceremony wrote (or certified) on the license that the marriage had been performed and the date of the ceremony. The 1805 law required that these licenses be returned to the Ordinary for recording (Prince, Oliver H. A digest of the laws of the state of Georgia. 2d ed. Athens : the Author, 1837, p.166). After emancipation the issuing of marriage licenses to black residents was authorized by an act of the General Assembly in 1866. Most extant nineteenth-century marriage records consist of the marriage books which contain transcribed licenses and certificates. In a few counties, the original unbound licenses and certificates have survived. The process of issuing marriage licenses and the information on them have changed little since the nineteenth century. Records of marriages including licenses and certificates. Information in marriage licenses includes the names of brides and grooms, dates of the licenses, and the name of the county official granting each license. The certificates contain the names of brides and grooms, the date of each marriage, and the name of the person who performed each ceremony. Most volumes have internal indexes.
Superior Court - Deed and mortgage indexes, 1860-1906 Control No.: GASV90-A103	These indexes list the grantee and grantor for each deed and mortgage recorded in the office of the clerk of superior court. Other information recorded includes the date of the instrument, the books where recorded, and the dates of the recording. These indexes are usually structured as either cumulative or running indexes. Cumulative deed indexes are usually in alphabetical order and running indexes are not, since names are continually being added. Running indexes generally group surnames under their first letter, so that all "A" surnames are together in the order of recording. Seller indexes are also called direct and grantor indexes. Buyer indexes are called indirect and grantee indexes. With deed and mortgage books containing different sorts of records, these other records may or may not be indexed along with the deeds and mortgages. Reel by reel listing is available in repository. Deeds and mortgages, 1860-1906 (RG244-1-1) is a related series.
Superior Court - Minute books, 1856-1904 Control No.: GASV89-A451	Included are lists of criminal indictments, or "true bills," and "no bills" handed down by the grand juries, the general presentments of grand juries, orders and decrees of the court, and copies of the judge's entries in his dockets. This is a source for divorce actions or for 19th century naturalizations. Minute books are often not indexed.
Superior Court - Deed and mortgage books, 1860-1906 Control No.: GASV89-A184	Transcriptions of deeds and mortgages showing land transactions which were recorded in the office of the clerk of superior court. Types of deeds may be fi fa (sheriff's), administrator, quit claim, guardian, probate, security, and trust deeds. In some cases, deeds to slaves may be recorded. Information recorded includes date of instrument, contracting parties, purchase price, legal description of property, county, signatures, and date of recording. Reel by reel listing is available in repository.
Physicians register, 1881-1946	FHL US/CAN Film 366308
Superior Court minutes, and notary public appointments, 1856-1904	Vol. A-B, 1856-1875--FHL US/CAN Film 366319 Vol. C-D, 1875-1891--FHL US/CAN Film 366320 Vol. E-F, 1891-1904--FHL US/CAN Film 366321
Notary public, justice of peace and jury appointments, 1883-1897	FHL US/CAN Film 366322
Inferior Court minutes, 1855-1872	FHL US/CAN Film 366330 [note we have some of them transcribed as of 10/2000. Submitted by Linda Murray.
Miscellaneous probates, 1851-1876.	FHL US/CAN Film 366331
Administration, guardians, letters and bonds, 1877-1941 Inventories, appraisements, years support 1877-1928.	FHL US/CAN Film 366332
Annual returns and vouchers, 1877-1920 Bills of sale, 1877-1919.	FHL US/CAN Film 366333
Twelve months support, 1886-1933.	FHL US/CAN Film 366334
Miscellaneous estate records, 1867-1877	FHL US/CAN Film 366335
Deed Records: Index, vol. 1, 1860-1906	FHL US/CAN Film 366309
Deeds, vol. B, 1860-1872 (transcribed) Deeds, vol. A,1874-1886.	FHL US/CAN Film 366310
Deeds, vol. D-E, 1881-1893	FHL US/CAN Film 366311
Deeds, vol. F-G, 1893-1901	FHL US/CAN Film 366312
Deeds, vol. H-I, 1900-1904	FHL US/CAN Film 366313
Deeds, vol. J-K, 1904-1906	FHL US/CAN Film 366314
Marriages v. 1A 1833-1865 v. 2A 1864-1874 v. 3A 1874-1881,1910-1911 v. 4A 1870-1883 v. 1 1833-1878,1925-1933	FHL US/CAN Film 366323
Marriages v. 6A 1885-1897 v. 7A 1896-1915	FHL US/CAN Film 366324
Union County, Georgia marriage records, 1834-1862 - compiled by Frances T. Ingmire [Includes index to brides. ] c. 1985	FHL US/CAN Book 975.8285 V2i
Union County, Georgia marriages :1833 -1897 compiled by Viola H. Jones c. 1992 [includes index]	FHL US/CAN Book 975.8285 V29j
Court of Ordinary - Homestead records, 1877-1937	FHL US/CAN Film 366632
Confederate Pension rolls, 1914-1924, 1927, 1945-1949	FHL US/CAN Film 366303
School records, list of the number of students taught and record of the school expenses in Union County 1859-1864 [has index]	FHL US/CAN Film 366633
Tax digest, 1849-1851	FHL US/CAN Film 159186
Tax list, 1855-1859	FHL US/CAN Film 366631
Voters register, 1895-1904	FHL US/CAN Film 366630
Choestoe by Jane Hancock	Biography (and partly autobiography) of Edward Leander SHULER (1883-1955), son of William Jackson Shuler and Elizabeth TOWNSEND. He was born and raised in Choestoe (Cherokee for "where the rabbits dance") in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeast Georgia. Two of the highest mountains in the Appalachian chain between Maine and Georgia lie in the Choestoe district they are Brasstown Bald and Blood Mountains. Edward Leander Shuler married Laura Collins in 1905. As he tells his story, he also gives biographical sketches of his father and mother, William Jackson Shuler and Elizabeth (Townsend) Shuler. Includes a social history of the Choestoe area, including its beginning as part of Cherokee lands before the "Trail of Tears" dispossessed them. Includes: SHULER, SCHULER, COLLINS, HARRIS, HOOD, LANCE, MILLER, TOWNSEND Call No.: 921.73 Sh92h Location: JSMB FAMHIST Book
Cemetery records of Union County, Georgia edited and compiled by Dale Elliott and C.T. Wimpey, published by Union Co. Gen. Soc. 1990	Location: JSMB FAMHIST Book

The GA State Archives' website is: http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/default.htm

You can order LDS microfilms through your nearest Family History Center. To order a microfilm, you need to know the microfilm number. The closest center to Blairsville is just about 20 minutes North in Murphy, NC:

Murphy North Carolina
                  Hwy 141
                  Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States
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