Toombs County GenForum Board
Toombs County Ancestry Board
Toombs County Ancestry Mailing List
Georgia GenForum Board
Georgia Ancestry Board
Miscellaneous Georgia Mailing List

African Ancestored Genealogy Links

AfriGeneas 
African American Cemeteries Online
Cyndi's List: African-American
African-American Genealogy on the Web
About.com: African-American Genealogy
Sankofa's African Slave Genealogy
The Freedmen's Bureau Online
Library of Congress: African American Perspectives
Genforum: African American Forum

American Civil War Research Links 

The United States Civil War Center
Confederate Regimental History Links
Union Regimental History Links
American Civil War Portal 

Excellent Research Links

The Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties, created by Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, has many historical maps of Toombs County. Also located at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government is the Georgia Historical Markers project, which includes a transcript of and photographs of historical markers in Toombs County. 

The Georgia 1885 Atlas and Gazetteer contains a listing of all Georgia towns and communties in 1885 as well as links to Georgia county maps from the Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World from 1885.

The Vanishing Georgia Photographic Collection of over 18,000 images is the result of a Georgia Archives project begun in the mid-1970s to locate and copy historically significant photographs held by individuals throughout Georgia. Vanishing Georgia's historical photographs document the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the state. The project visited 66 counties and includes images from almost all of Georgia's counties including Toombs County. Be sure to visit this excellent site! 

The 1880 US Federal Census  located at the LDS Family Search site is an excellent resource! Be sure to look for your Toombs County ancestors in this massive database of the entire US 1880 Federal Census.

For additional source material relating to Toombs County, please visit the USGenWeb Archives Toombs County site.

The National Register of Historic Places Toombs County Inventory page contains interesting information about historic sites in Toombs County. 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family History Library Catalog Toombs County listings gives detailed information on what is available pertaining to Toombs County. 

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is an excellent resource from the US National Park Service. This system includes a computerized database containing basic facts about servicemen who served during the Civil War. The database currently contains approximately 2.7 million soldier names from over 30 states and territories.

Documenting the American South is an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research. 

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: US - Georgia, contains an abundance of excellent links to various internet sites dealing with Georgia genealogy and history. 

The Online Books Page History: United States (Regional), and the Americas Section, contains links to scores of valuable 19th century and earlier regional histories, biographies and other works.

Making of America, (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. 

Looking for a location in Toombs County? If so try the USGS GNIS database. Contains information on cemeteries, creeks, post offices and much more! 

The Political Graveyard Toombs County page contains several valuable links pertaining to Toombs County as well as links to biographies of politicians who were either born in, or were residents of  Toombs County. 

An excellent contemporary map of Toombs County is the Georgia Department of Transportation map. This detailed map shows roads, creeks, communities and much more. This map is in PDF format.