Project: Georgia

Categories: Georgia | Georgia Project | Georgia Projects | Confederate Army, United States Civil War

This project is part of the United States History Project.

Welcome to the Georgia Project!

The purpose of this project is to coordinate all Georgia related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.

Georgia Counties
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien
Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden
Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay
Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp
Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols
Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton
Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock
Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis
Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln
Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller
Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding
Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph
Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot
Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen
Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington
Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth


Georgia map of counties

Contents

How to Join

It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of Georgia or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:

Are you interested in the Georgia Project?united_states.gif

Answer the United States G2G welcome post and you will be awarded the United States Project badge. Make sure to include the State (s) that you are interested in.

Add united_states and Georgia to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed.

For a full list of participants, see the badge report.

Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.

Templates

The template is {{United States|sub-project=Georgia}} which will give you:

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... ... ... is a part of Georgia history.
Join: Georgia Project
Discuss: Georgia

This above template is for use only on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd and managed by the project.

It is not for every single person from Georgia. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance, placing it below the Biography Header:

Georgia Sticker Directions
Deceased persons {{Georgia Sticker}}
... ... ... was a Georgian.
Living Persons {{Georgia Sticker|living=y}}
... ... ... is a Georgian.

Goals

The overall goals of the US History Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in Georgia. To meet these goals:

  1. Add Georgia-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
  2. If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
  3. Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
  4. Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
  5. Add the Georgia template to the profiles along with any relevant categories.
  6. Contact Paula to request PPP status for those profiles that meet the criteria for project protection. This will protect them from an incorrect merge.
  7. Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
  8. Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.
  9. Note: To be considered active in this project, edit or add to the County Space pages, or create Biographies for the different profiles who lived in a specific county. If a person is not contributing, the person should reconsider whether you are an active member. If you are not interested, the badge might later be removed. However if you become interested in Georgia History again you may reapply for the badge at a later date.

List of Things To Do

  1. Need space pages created and developed for Georgia counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
  2. If you have any Georgia state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the Georgia Resources Page.
  3. If you live in Georgia, please consider adding Georgia Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.

Ongoing List of Things to Do

  1. Cemeteries in Georgia need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the Georgia Cemeteries Project
  2. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Georgia state tribes.
  3. Work on Georgia's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
  4. Create new profiles for people of Georgia who are documented in a family member's profile, but might not have their own profiles yet. See Needs Profiles Created
  5. Work on Suggestions for profiles from Georgia, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
  6. Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from Georgia in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
  7. Help find the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) for Georgia Unknowns using the Profile Improvement Project Unknowns Team Process
  8. Help add profiles with the US Black Heritage 1880 Project Teams

Profiles

County Projects

  • There are approximately 159 counties in Georgia. In efforts for this project page to remain intact, I am removing the list which is accumulating.. All Counties may still be seen in the above table.

See above completed Georgia counties which have red font in the above table

Sample:

Resources

Related Georgia Categories on WikiTree

Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree

Members



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