MILLEDGEVILLE
Genealogical Abstracts from the Georgia Journal (Milledgeville) Newspaper by Fred R. and Emilie K. Hurst/ Tad Evans 5 vols/over 1200 pp in each vol $60 each volume Vol 1 1809-18 1990 Vol 2 1819-23 1992 Vol 3 1824-28 1994 Vol 4 1829-35 1994 Vol 5 1836-40 1995
"Milledgeville,GA Newspaper Clippings" (Southern Recorder) by Tad Evans vol.1 1820-1827 vol 2 1828-1832 vol 3 1833-1835 vol 4 1836-1838 vol 5 1839-1841 vol 6 1842-1844 vol 7 1845-1848 vol 8 1849-1852 vol 9 1853-1856 vol 10 1857-1861 vol 11 1862-1866 vol 12 1867-1872
Many of the above newspaper abstracts have been sent through the GEORGIA-L mailing list. To search for a name,
https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/cgi-bin/search?aop. Type in GEORGIA. Next page type in the surname or county name you are searching for. If you want to see ALL of them type in "Ga Journal" or "Journal".
Georgia Journal Transcribed by Joyce McMurray from Tad Evan's Abstracts
[Mar 1814-Oct 1821]
Early Taylor County Court Minutes (1852-1857) mention publication in Newspapers:
Columbus - TIMES and SENTINEL
Columbus - Muscogee County
GA Historic Newspapers on-line
COLUMBUS ENQUIRER
Columbus EnquirerColumbus Enquire Archive Searchable for issues 1828-1890
Published book:
Wright, Buster W. Burials and deaths reported in the Columbus (Georgia)
Enquirer, 1832-1872
COLUMBUS ENQUIRER (Columbus, Ga. : 1828) v. ; 68 cm. Weekly Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 29, 1828)- Ceased in 1861. Columbus,GA Newspaper Clippings (Columbus Enquirer)Transcribed by Joyce Murray and posted on Georgia Mailing List. Search or Browse. Type "Columbus Enquirer" as "Subject" and "Georgia" at List You can browse the transcriptions. OR you can type in your Surname in the "body" or "subject" and the specific issues of the Columbus Enquirer will come up.
vol 1 1832-1834 vol 2 1835 - 1837 vol 3 1838-1840 vol.4 1841-1843 vol 5 1844-1846 by Elizabeth Evans Kilbourne
Continued by: Weekly Columbus enquirer (Columbus, Ga. : 1861)
COLUMBUS DAILY ENQUIRER (Columbus, Ga. : 1874) U of GA
v. Daily (except Mon.), Mar. 2, 1875-
Vol. 16, no. 203 (Sept. 1, 1874)-v. 19, no. 259 (Nov. 3, 1877).
Continues: Sun and Columbus daily enquirer
Continued by: Columbus daily enquirer-sun (Columbus, Ga. : 1877)
Daily (except Mon.)
Began in Nov. 1877.
-v. 28, no. 110 (May 8, 1886).
DAILY WEEKLY ENQUIRER
(chiefly adv.) Weekly Vol. 59, no. 31 (July 11, 1887)-
Continued by: Weekly Columbus Enquirer-Sun
MACON - Bibb County
Macon Telegraph Digital, searchable issues which includes Georgia Telegraph, as well as the Macon Telegraph.
Thank you, Jennifer Braswell, for supplying the information about Bibb County papers
Check out this site for Newspaper abstracts: sites.rootsweb.com/~ganews
GEORGIA MESSENGER - 1823
The first newspaper in Bibb County (City of Macon) was the GEORGIA MESSENGER
(estab. March 16, 1823, Ft. Hawkins 1824, Macon, 5th Street). after passing
through the hands of many owners, it was bought and merged with the GEORGIA JOURNAL
of Milledgeville and titled the JOURNAL and MESSENGER.
Apparently it was a weekly paper and didn't become a daily until 1868.
In 1869, it was united with the TELEGRAPH.
Abstracts on-line
We welcome your contributions!
MACON TELEGRAPH - 1826
The Telegraph, P.O. Box 4167, Macon, GA 31208-4167
The Macon TELEGRAPH was founded in December, 1826. A small daily was also
published from 1831 -1833 (1st in Macon). In 1844, a weekly paper, the
REPUBLIC, was begun and continued until 1845 when it merged with the
TELEGRAPH. After several more ownership changes, and merges with other
papers, including the GEORGIA CITIZEN and the CONFEDERATE, interest in the
MESSENGER was purchased, and merged also with the TELEGRAPH and was titled
the TELEGRAPH and MESSENGER.
The MESSENGER title is no longer used, but the MACON TELEGRAPH continues
today even after more ownership changes...
(these notes were taken from Butler, John Campbell. HISTORICAL RECORD of
MACON AND CENTRAL GEORGIA, c1879, J.W. Burke CO, Macon, GA. {2nd copyright
1958 by the MACON TOWN COMMITTEE of the NATIONAL SOCIETY of the COLONIAL
DAMES of AMERICA in the state of GEORGIA}, PP. 329-333.
Macon Georgia Telegraph Nov. 1, 1826-Dec. 26, 1832
'The Daily Macon Telegraph', published from 17 Oct 1831 thru 26 Sept 1832,
and then became the semi-weekly Macon Telegraph from 2 Oct 1832 thru 21 Dec
1832.
">Macon Messenger
Willard Rocker's "Marriages and Obituaries From The Macon
Messenger 1818-1865" is available at Washington Memorial Library, Macon
Look-up: Galen Chambers
Macon,GA (Bibb County) Newspaper Clippings (Messenger) Tad Evans
Vol. 1 1823-1830
Vol. 2 1831-1837
Vol. 3 1838-1842
Vol. 4 1843-1847
Vol. 5 1848-1851
Vol. 6 1852-1854
Vol. 7 1855-1858
Vol. 8 1859-1865
Vol. 9 1866-1869
Macon ,GA Telegraph 1826/1832 - Mary Warren
"The Macon [GA] Telegraph 1826-1832"
Vol. I, #1-Vol. VII, #13, Nov.1, 1826-Dec. 26, 1832
Abstracts of Marriage, Divorce, Death, and Legal
Notices, compiled by Michal Martin Farmer, Mary Bondurant Warren, Nicole
Moran O'Kelley and William Brett Hill.
On the inside of this book a notation reads: 'The Macon Telegraph founded Nov. 1, 1826 and edited
by Myron Bartlett, at Macon, Bibb Co., GA. Transcribed from microfilm of newspapers from Washington
Mem. Library, Macon, GA." Look-ups: Donna Hall [email protected]
Macon ,GA Telegraph 1833/1839 - Mary Warren
"The Macon Telegraph, for
a time called the Georgia Telegraph, began weekly publication on Nov. 1,
1826 in Macon, Bibb Co, GA. Subscription price for the Macon Telegraph was
$3 per annum if paid in advance, or $4 at the end of the year, and its
publisher was Myron Bartlett. The newspaper office was on Cherry St., near
the public square in Macon, GA. Between Oct. 17, 1831 and Dec. 21, 1832,
Bartlett also published the Daily Macon Telegraph. Mr. Bartlett reported
in the Oct. 22, 1831 issue that there were twenty newspapers published in
Georgia. One in Athens, three in Augusta, one in Bainbridge, two in
Columbus, four in Macon, one in MacDonough, three in Milledgeville, one in
Mount Zion (Hancock Co.), two in Savannah, one in Warrenton, and one in
Washington. Published in Macon in late 1831 were: The Macon Telegraph
(weekly, and Daily), the Georgia Messenger, the Macon Advertiser &
Agricultural and Mercantile Intelligencer, and the Georgia Christian
Repertory (a Methodist paper)."
Abstracts on-line
We welcome your contributions!
TALBOTTON - TALBOT COUNTY
Earlier newspapers, i.e. The Talbotton Standard (1858), The Georgia Weekly (1865), West Georgia
Gazette (1866), The Talbotton Standard (revived)(1868) but none published very long and no microfilm
copies are apparently available.
TALBOTTON NEW ERA
Talbotton New Era - Talbotton, GA 31827
U of GA
v. Weekly Began in 1882. -v. 13, no. 9 (Dec. 24, 1895)
Jan. 30, 1883-Dec. 1980; Jun. 1981-present
Georgia Register
Dec. 4, 1877-Mar. 27, 1883
Talbotton Standard
Jul. 25, 1872-Jan. 18, 1881
CRAWFORD COUNTY HERALD
Issue in the Washington Library in Macon, there are some issues of the Crawford
County Herald dated in the 1890's.
University of Georgia has:
Knoxville
Correspondent
Nov. 5, 1892-Jul. 10, 1903
Crawford County Herald
Feb. 20, 1890-Oct. 28, 1892
Georgia Post
Jan. 11, 1924-Dec. 1940; Jan. 1943-Sep. 28, 1972
Knoxville Journal
Jan. 27, 1888-Dec. 18, 1889
Washington Memorial Library - Macon has the following Crawford County newspapers on microfilm:
The Correspondent Nov 1892 - July 1903
The Crawford County Herald Feb 20, 1890 - Oct 1892
Georgia Post Jan 11, l924 - Dec 1940; Jan 1943 - Dec 1954
Knoxville Journal Jan 1888 - Dec 1889 (incomplete)
Crawford County News Feb 1906 - Dec 1913; Jan 1917 - Apr 1924
Fort Valley Mirror (published in Roberta) Mar 19, 1880 - Mar 25, 188l
If you view any of these, please share what you transcribe.
Thanks to Joyce Murray and Jane Hampton for helping me with this list of newspapers available.
Tips on Using Newspapers in Your Research
Newspaper-Macon Telegraph indexed on computer from 1899 in Washington Memorial Libary - Macon. The newspaper is also indexed in the genealogy room in books for dates prior to that.
Around 75 years ago, Georgia passed a law that courthouses should keep copies of their county newspapers. Many courthouses, libraries, and special collections have preserved this material.
In the early 1950's the University of Georgia Libraries began a special project to convert Georgia newspapers to microfilm. From 1987 through 1991 the National Endowment for the Humanities funded a large portion of retrospective microfilming, as well as cataloging all Georgia newspaper holdings in the OCLC union catalog.
These microfilm from the Georgia Newspaper Project can be available through interlibrary loan. Contact your local public library or the University of Georgia for details.
Researching at U of GAFrom: "Carole Johnson" [email protected]Keep in mind that the Journalism
School was only able to microfilm what was was found; some papers
apparently were not archived and/or others just didn't survive.
There is a parking deck on Jackson street (the street past the Arches
if you are heading east). When you come out of the parking deck, walk
across Jackson onto campus (there will be steps). After you reach
the top of the steps, turn left and continue down the sidewalk to the
Main Library. After entering the Library walk toward the back of
the building to the stairs. Go down to the next floor, turn left and
immediately turn left again. You won't be able to miss the many
file cabinets. Everything is self-serve. Don't expect much help.
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Extant Georgia Newspapers
A statewide reference covering 1763-1829 : Marriages and Deaths from Extant Georgia Newspapers 2 vols. by Mary W. Warren.
"Marriages and Obituaries from Early Georgia Newspapers" by Huxford -covers late 1700's to late 1800's.
Galen Chambers
WASHINGTON - June 11, 2001 - More than 20,000 community newspapers, some long out of print, have recorded American life since the 17th century and two unique organizations have set the common goal of providing Internet access to this documentation of American heritage. The National Newspaper Association (NNA) and Cold North Wind Corporation signed a letter of intent today to create America's Chronicles SM, an online search engine that accesses the digital archives of America's community newspapers, beginning with the archives of the 3600 NNA member newspapers. The project could eventually result in 500,000,000 pages of original, historical content dating back to the 1600s and will be available online at http://www.americaschronicles.com . The site will be launched at the NNA's 116th Annual Convention and Trade Show in Milwaukee, September 12-15, with access to the first of many digital archives
The Southern Christian Advocate
The originals of "The Southern Christian Advocate"are located at Wofford College, Sandor Teszler Library.http://www.wofford.edu/library/archives/archiveobituary.aspx
There is a searchable index.
Click on Archives. Click on Search the Advocate
This is a great resource for the eastern GA newspaper of early Methodist
and
other early pioneers of GA.
If you find dead links, please let me know: Virginia Crilley.