Basic Genealogy Resources for Carroll County

This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources that relate to Carroll County. They are located in Special Collections at the Warren P. Sewell Library of Bowdon.

Cemeteries	Census
Church Histories	Databases
Deeds and Mortgages	Family Histories
Local Histories	Maps
Military	Newspapers/Obituaries
Yearbooks

Cemeteries

Carroll County Cemeteries Vol. 1 (Western half of the county; 2005)

929.575839 CARRO

Carroll County Cemeteries Vol. 2 (Eastern half of county; 2005)
929.575839 CARRO

Carroll County Cemeteries (1983)

975.839 CAR

Bowdon City Cemetery Directory, 1883-2001

929.575839 BOWDO

Census

Carroll County 1880

Carroll County Census 1880

975.839 EIGHT

This census book is in alphabetical order.

Other Dates and Counties

Search the Ancestry database for all U.S. census records from 1790 to 1930.

1890 Census records were lost in a fire. Only a fragment exists, with just a handful of names from Georgia. You can search the few records that remain using Ancestry.

Census records for 1940 will not be available until 2012, for privacy reasons. Census records for 1950 will be made available in 2022, and so on.

Church Histories

Bethesda Baptist Church, 1849-1949 975.839 WORD

Bowdon United Methodist Church (1978) 287.675839 HISTO

Shiloh United Methodist Church, 1856-2006 287.675839 SHILO

Victory Methodist Church SP 287.675839 THEY

Databases

Ancestry Library Edition is a searchable database that includes U.S. and other nations’ census records; birth, marriage and death records; military records; court, land and probate records; immigration records; family and local histories; and more.

This database can only be used at the library, on the computers with Internet access.

HeritageQuest is a searchable database that includes U.S. census records, searchable family and local history books, and PERSI, an index to genealogy and local history periodicals.

This database can be searched from your computer at home. Please pick up the GALILEO password at the library to do this.

Deeds and Mortgages

The clerk of court at the Carroll County courthouse has more deed books and their indexes.

Carroll County, Georgia Abstract of Deed Book 929.375839 WORD

v.1 1827-1836

v.2 1836-1843

v.3 1843-1855

Family Histories

Individual family histories are shelved at 929.2, alphabetical by family name.

Local Histories

Towns in Carroll County

Bowdon College: a Glorious History

SP 929.375839 BOWDO

Bowdon Has a Centennial (1954)
SP 975.839 DIGBY

Bowdon, the First Hundred Years, 1853-1953: A Pictorial History

975.839 BOWDO

The History of Bowdon College

SP 929.375839 CAS

Looking Back: Historical Sights of Bowdon Area Students

975.839 LOOKI

The March of Time (Bowdon, 1938-1946) 975.839 WHATL

The March of Time and Other Selected Columns (Bowdon, 1946-1951)

975.839 BIRD

At Home in Carrollton: A History Illustrated, 1827-1994 975.839 AT

My Small-Town Home Town, Roopville, Georgia (1985)

929.375839 HUFF

Several of the books listed below also have sections on towns in Carroll County.

Carroll County

Georgia's Last Frontier; the Development of Carroll County (1971) 975.839 BONNE

The Heritage of Carroll County, Georgia, 1826-2001 929.375839 HERIT

Letters from a T-Model Dad to His Space-Age Sons by O.B. Copeland COPELAND COP

Looking Back: A Pictorial History of Carroll County (1996) 975.839 LOOKI

Memorable Times During a Fortunate Journey by O.B. Copeland COPELAND COP

The Sesquicentennial-Bicentennial Edition of the Carroll County Story (1976)
975.839 SESQU

Maps

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of Bowdon from 1911 and 1922 are available on the library computers, through the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map database in GALILEO.