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This site is dedicated

to all researchers

who are in a quest

 to know more and

be more.

State Flower:

Cherokee Rose

State Capital: Atlanta

Industries
Textiles, Timber, Cotton, Corn, Peanuts, Soybeans,  Poultry

Major Rivers
Chattahoochee, Savannah, Suwannee

Nickname "The Peach State"
 

State Motto
"Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation"
 

State Song
"Georgia on My Mind"

by Ray Charles

State Bird:

Brown Thrasher

• On-Site Data

  • Georgia Page -  data not specific to any one county

  • County List - list of Georgia counties

  • Surname Listing - list of surnames being researched

  • Submissions - guidelines on submitting to Georgia African American Griots

  • Updates - an update of data submitted to the site

  • Military - listing of military personell

  • Freedman Savings & Trust - Depositors information

  Famous Georgians

  • Willie Gary - Attorney

  • Herman J. Russell Sr. - Entrepreneur

  • Susie King Taylor - Slave, Prominent Writer

  • Austin Dabney Slave and only African American to be granted land in the lottery

  • Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis - Actor. Director and Producer

  • Janet Harmon Flagg

  • Eugene J. Bullard - world's first black combat aviator

  • Chevene Bowers King aka C. B. King - Prominent Attorney

  • Henry McNeal Turner - Bishop in the African American Episcopal Church

  • Ambassador Andrew Young - Minister, Ambassador, Politician, Civil Rights Leader

  • Wm. Edward Burghardt DuBois aka W. E. B. DuBois 

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Civil Rights Leader

  • Frank Yerby - Prominent Writer

  • David Satcher -Surgeon General & Assistant Secretary for Health

  • Alonzo Franklin Herndon Founder and President of Atlanta Life Insurance Co.

• Sites Worth Visiting

  • GAGenWeb Project

  • USF Africana Heritage Project

  • Access Genealogy

  • Library of Congress African American Family Histories

• State Resources

  • Georgia County Creations

  • Georgia County Facts and Information

  • Georgia Public Health - Vital Records

  • Georgia Native Indian Tribes

  • The New Georgia Encyclopedia

  • Georgia Laws Relating to Slaves, Nominal Slaves and Free Persons of Color

• Organizations

  • Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

  • Georgia Societies and Archives

• Slavery in Georgia

  • Slave Manumissions 1799 - 1856

  • Georgia Laws Relating to Slaves, Nominal Slaves and Free Persons of Color

• Freedmen

  • Freedmen's Education during Reconstruction