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Welcome to Hancock County, Georgia
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Old Hancock County Courthouse, Sparta, Georgia
(Photo by Keith Hair)
Important information: The Hancock County Courthouse was Destroyed by fire on August 11, 2014
Please click here for more information on this fire
New Hancock County Courthouse, Sparta, Georgia (Rededication Ceremony August 11, 2016)
County Coordinator: Suzanne Forte
State Coordinator: Linda Blum-Barton
Assistant State Coordinator: Trish Elliott-Kashima
Regional Assistant: Vivian Price Saffold
This is the official home page of the Hancock County GAGenWeb Project. We are a group of volunteers working together to provide internet websites for genealogical research in every county in the State of Georgia. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone. GAGenWeb members are located through the world, not just in Georgia. We rely on the resources of the Internet and on volunteers who are able to transcribe primary documents to assist us in getting information on line.
If you have information that you are willing to share, such as cemetery, census, marriage, deeds, or wills that you have transcribed, or that you would be willing for me to transcribe, please let me know and I will be glad to transcribe them, if needed, and put them up on the page. If you have a home page relating to ancestors from Hancock County, I would like to have that also. Any old photos would be great to have too. Family histories, stories about the county, anything of interest along these lines would be helpful.
Brief History of Hancock County
Hancock County was founded December 17, 1793, and was originally part of Greene and Washington counties. Part of Baldwin County, east of the Oconee River was part of Hancock from 1793 until 1807. A portion of Hancock was set aside to create Taliaferro County in 1825. It is Georgia's fifteenth county, and was named for John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence. The city of Sparta (named for the classical Greek city) was established in 1795 and incorporated by the legislature on December 3rd, 1805 as the county seat. It was founded in 1795 by American Revolutionary Officer, Major Charles Ambercrombie of North Carolina. Millmore Gristmill, located within the county, was the site of the historic 1786 peace treaty between Georgia and the Creek Indian Nation. The county encompasses 473.3 square miles, and lies between the Oconee and Ogeechee Rivers in east central Georgia.
A More In-Depth History of Hancock County
Surrounding Counties: Baldwin, Glascock, Greene, Taliaferro, Washington, Warren, and Putnam.
Hancock County GAGenWeb Archives - (Contains cemeteries, wills, bibles, marriages, death records,
military information, and much more)
Books for Sale
- Published Resources for Hancock County
Republished
History of Hancock County Now Available. Click HERE
for more information.
Census Index - (SK Publications)
1820
1830 (Transcription on line - click HERE)
1840 (Transcription on line - click HERE)
1850 (Transcription on line - click HERE)
1880 (Family History Center Complete Census)
Cemeteries and Churches
Friends of Hancock County Cemeteries - (Contains list of all known cemeteries in Hancock County, including GPS coordinates, directions, and pictures)
"Register of Members of Zebulon Methodist Church, South", 1871-1937
History of Darien Baptist Church (includes member
records)
Pictures of some Churches in Hancock County
Georgia Baptist Church Records, Jack Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
Writings from Horeb Baptist Church - 1792 - 1960
Historic Churches of Hancock County (pictures and history)
Military
War Between the States
CSA Soldier Pension Application - Thomas M.
Jackson - 1896
Pictures of Confederate Soldiers of Hancock County
List of all Land Lottery Grants Made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War by the State of Georgia (Includes 1820, 1827 and 1832 land lotteries)
Georgia Soldiers who Perished in World War I
Georgia Soldiers who Perished in World War II
Georgia Soldiers who Perished in the Korean War
Georgia Soldier who Perished in the Vietnam War
War Memorial Square Photos - Hancock County, Sparta, GA
New Book - "Hancock County, Georgia Heroes: Veterans from 1914 - 2014
Surnames and Researchers (post your queries here to get in touch with others researching your Hancock County surnames)
Biographies
of Hancock County Families
Cousin Connect - Another place to post your genealogy queries
Look Up Volunteers and Local (for a fee) Researchers
Transcription of Will Books A, AA, AAA, AAAA, B and C (1794-1807)
Home Pages of Hancock County Researchers
List of 1925 Graduates of 10th District Agriculture School
Photo of Sparta High School Graduation Class of 1933 (includes names)
Old Pictures of Hancock County Settlers
1931/32 Sparta High School Basketball Team
Hancock County In the News - 1900 - 1909 (Includes
surname index)
Old Newspapers - Web Sites to Search
Consolidated Report of Physicians for the County of Hancock
Commencement Program - Sparta High School - Class of 1923
Newspaper Abstracts from the Georgia Argus and the Georgia Journal, Milledgeville, GA - 1810
Thomas Lee ("Pee Wee" Butts - Negro League Baseball Player from Hancock County
Current DOT Map (includes cemeteries)
Genealogical Societies
East Georgia Genealogical Society
Resources for
Research in Hancock County
Historic
Places Located in Hancock County
Old Post Cards of Sparta and Hancock County
MORE Old Post Cards of Sparta and Hancock County
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places
Historic Piedmont Scenic Byway - Hancock and Putnam Counties
Program from "Spotlights of Sparta, Georgia" - Sesqui-Centennial
Celebration - 1805 - 1955
OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST TO RESEARCHERS
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