This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources that relate to Haralson County. They are located in Special Collections at the Tallapoosa Public Library.
| Birth Records | Cemeteries | |
| Census | Databases | |
| Local Histories | Maps | |
| Marriage Records | Military | |
| Newspapers/Obituaries | Yearbooks | |
The Haralson County Health Department has Haralson County birth records (from 1919 to the present). If you are looking for the names of someone’s parents, you may want to also look in the Census for the years when the person was a child.
Haralson County, Georgia Cemeteries (2004)
SP 929.575838 HARAL
The 1930 census for all counties in Georgia is also available on microfilm, at:
SP 929.3 GEORGIA CENSUS 1930 ROLL 368
On the library computers you can search the Ancestry database, which has all of the U.S. censuses, including the 1890 census fragment (most of that census was destroyed in a fire).
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.
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.
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.
Family histories are shelved at 929.2, alphabetically by family name.
The First One Hundred Years (1996)
SP 975.838 GREEN
To Be Continued: A Pictorial History of Tallapoosa, Georgia (1999)
REF 975.838 TALLA
No More Storms A-Comin’ (1995)
GOEBEL GOE
Growing Up in Tallapoosa, GA (2001)
JONES JON
Haralson County, Georgia: A History (1994)
SP 975.838 HARAL
Haralson County History Book (1983)
SP 975.838 HARAL
Haralson’s Heritage (1995)
SP 975.838 WILBU
Haralson County, GA : a Resource Guide for the Teaching of Social Studies in Haralson County, GA (1991)
SP 975.838 WILBU
Some Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of Tallapoosa are available on microfilm at the library.
All Sanborn maps of
Tallapoosa are available
through the
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map database. This database is available on
the library computers through GALILEO. Sanborn maps were made of Tallapoosa in
1888, 1890, 1895, 1903, 1909 and 1914.
Haralson County, Georgia, Marriage Records 1856-1940
SP 929.375838 HARAL
The Probate Court at the Haralson County Courthouse has more marriage and divorce records.
Roster of
the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865: Index
SP 929.3758 ROSTE
Georgia in the War, 1861-1865: a Compendium of Georgia Participants
SP 973.7458 JON
The library has the Tallapoosa Journal and its precursors on microfilm back to 1884.
Due to a lack of storage space, the recent issues of the Tallapoosa Journal will not available at the Tallapoosa library until they have been microfilmed (this generally takes 5-6 years).
