Welcome to Heard County GA
Your Source for Heard County Genealogy
and History

Davis Cabin - site where first Heard County
government was formed

Photo used by permission of L. Spoonmore

• About the GeorgiaGenWeb Project
• Heard County History
• Heard County Cemeteries no listings
• Heard County's Neighbors
• GeorgiaGenWeb Links
• Heard County Links
• Other Georgia Links
• Heard County Families
• Heard County Queries
• Heard County Surnames
• Heard County Historical Maps  showing formation from parent counties
• Heard County Images pictures of places in Heard County

Heard County History

Heard County, Georgia was created in 1830 and named for Governor Stephen Heard. The parent counties from which Heard County was organized from were Carroll, Coweta and Troup. U.S. Census reports are available for this county from 1840 to 1930. The county seat is Franklin.

The Path to the Neighbors Porch.....

• Carroll County
• Coweta County
• Troup County
• Randolph County AL

Use these links to visit the GAGenWeb pages for the counties surrounding Heard. You may have connections in these counties, too. And you may even find some surprises.

GA GenWeb Links

• Georgia Master County Index
• Gene Stark's Index of Names for all GenWeb Sites (Includes all Heard County lines.)
• The USGenWeb Archive Table Of Contents

If you have typed records of county census, cemetery records, marriage records, and such...they are needed here to share with others on the Internet. Please consider submitting your records so we all might benefit from them.

Heard County Links

Franklin, GA Home Page - visit the county seat. 18 Jan 2008

• Interactive Heard County Map  You can zoom in and out to find your way around and get more detail.  (NOTE: During business hours or other busy times, this can be very slow to load. But very good late at night.)
• Sites On the Web Relating to Heard County Genealogy (Lycos)

Other Georgia Links

Georgia County Map Northern Counties are shown in various colors. 15 Jan 2008
Georgia County Map Southern Counties are shown in various colors. 15 Jan 2008

• Georgia Genealogical and Historical Societies
• Georgia Vital Records Index
• Georgia State Archives
• Genealogical Bulletin Boards Of Georgia
• Georgia Life Histories - Mostly first person accounts of life in Georgia, collected during the Great Depression. Some historical and genealogical nuggets if you want to mine for them.
• University of Georgia Libraries
• Cindi Howell's List of GA Genealogy Sites - if Cyndi doesn't have it, you probably don't need it!

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Last update -- Thursday, 17-Jan-2008 23:28:44 CST