Bob Davis is known for his vast knowledge in Georgia History and Genealogical Research and here in volume 2 of his planned 3 book series, he has complied into one indexed volume, his favorite tricks in Georgia Research. Now these tricks do not work every time, but when they do, you will be extremely thankful that you have this book in your possession. This book, along with its companion, volume 1, should be in the library of anyone who is doing genealogy research in Georgia. Chapters included in this volume are: Did you know; Question and answers about Georgia research; the First Georgians and their records, 1733-1783; Records of the Georgia Surveyor General Dept.; the Ceded lands are the Original Wilkes County, Georgia; Going to and Gone from Georgia; Migration records; Civil War research in Georgia; some Cherokee and Georgia Indian records-an Addendum; Places in Georgia; Sources for local history; Fort files in the John H. Goff Collection; Place name cards in the Leon Hollingsworth Collection; Georgia suppliers to the Confederacy; Georgians-Misc. Colonial Georgia records; Colonial Georgia Records; records in the Cuyler Collection; Index to Governor's Papers - Cuyler Collection 1756-1786; Misc. Revolutionary War records; 2500 Georgians in the Sheftall Papers; Settlers from Old 96 Dist. South Carolina to Georgia and beyond; Early Georgia Congressmen; list of Georgia doctors before 1830; settlers of the Georgia Indian border, 1829-1833; Georgians at Sanlacinto; some Georgia Bounty Land Grants, 1854-1856; 600 Georgia Rebels (biographies); Confederate Dead; Civil War pardons and Amnesty records; Biographical Sketches of the Georgia Legislature 1871; some Spanish American War veterans; Georgia Confederate Soldiers home; names in county records; Orig. County records at Georgia Archives; Obits. from the Milledgeville Area; Butts County Taxable's 1828; some Chatham County registrants for the land lottery 1827; some families of old Cherokee County; 1850 Census of Clinch (East Lanier) County; Missing pages from the 1801 Elbert County Tax Digest; records of Franklin County; some Hancock County records; some Jackson County Estates 1796-1813; some Loose Liberty and McIntosh County records 1771-1854; Morgan County Yankees 1877; Twiggs County records 1820 and 1866-1901; Whitfield County Politicians 1868; some Wilkinson County 1827 land lottery registrants. Robert Scott Davis, Jr. (1991), 2006, cloth, 516 pp.ISBN: 9780893096830 117-GA87
