What's New!
Rabun Co., GA

August 15, 2007: added a deed from Samuel Hopper by William Dillingham, Sheriff, to Jasper Hopper, 1843.

July 4, 2007: added the following records: an index to the 1836 Tax Digest; a testator index (with notes on guardianship and slaves) of "Minutes, 1826 - 39, Rabun County"; added jury lists from 1850 - 1858; a testator index (with notes on guardianship and slaves) from "Official Bonds, 1849 - 1866, Rabun County"; a testator index (with notes on guardianship and slaves) from "Minutes: Inventory & Appraisement, 1850 - 1860".

April 29, 2007: added the following deeds: Absolem Brown to William C. Watson, 1860, John Martin to W. M. Carver, 1879, and Horatio Talley to Andrew Brown, 1834.

April 25, 2007: added jury lists for 1831 - 1845 and 1846 - 1849.

March 3, 2007: added an index of the Clayton, 587 District, 1900 Federal Census, Rabun Co., GA.

January 28, 2007: added an abstract of the 1861 Tax List.

October 15, 2006: added a survey and tombstone photos for Page Cemetery; added a testator index for Will Book D, 1932 - 1959.

October 14, 2006: added 1830 - 1930 Federal Census data for the surnames Foster, Forster, Forrester, etc., submitted by Don Tucker.

October 14, 2006: added minutes from 1861 and 1862 from a church thought to be Camp Creek Baptist Church, contributed by Gail Smith Boyle.

September 18, 2006: added a list of soldiers who fought in the Florida Indian Wars, 1837 1838, contributed by Marian Miller.

February 4, 2006: added testator indices and miscellaneous items from Records of Letters of Administration and Guardianship & Wills, Book B, 1870 - 1888 and Administrators, Estates, Guardians & Trustees: Wills 1878.

February 2, 2006: added some tombstone photos from Persimmon Baptist Church Cemetery; added the family Bible of Samuel and Tabitha Langston Beck.

January 16, 2006: added McCurry Cemetery with tombstone photos; added some deed abstracts from Deed Book V.

December 28, 2005: added a testator index and miscellaneous items for Wills, Inventories and Appraisements 1838 - 1859; testator index and homestead exemption, etc. from Minutes of the Ordinary's Office 1860 - 1868; Index to Will Book C, 1881 - 1929; A List of Indigent People who Drew Factory Yarn, January 1864; Salt List, February 5, 1864.

April 26, 2005: added pages 571, 572, and 573, 1860 Federal Census.

April 25, 2005: added pages 568, 569, and 570, 1860 Federal Census.

April 24, 2005: added obituaries for Capt. S. M. Beck, 1902; Mrs. John Butts, 1899; Mr. W. M. Darnell, 1899; Infant Dorsey, 1902; Miss Laura Dotson, 1899; John Moore, 1899; John B. Moore, 1914; Miss Laura Wall, 1914; and Andrew Watts, 1899.

April 17, 2005: added pages 566 and 567, 1860 Federal Census, Rabun Co., GA.

April 12, 2005: added Kelly Cemetery survey and pictures of tombstones.

February 11, 2005: Placed a complete testator index for Will Book B, 1863 - 1888, online.

December 11, 2004: began merging the Rabun Co., GAGenWeb site back onto USGenNet.

September 21, 2004: added abstracts of deeds and other records from pages 37 through 50 of Deed Book A.

September 14, 2004: added a link to "1909 Road Tax Payers".

August 20, 2004: added abstracts of deeds and other records from pages 31 through 36 of Deed Book A, and also added miscellaneous conveyances to the deed index.

May 25, 2004: added links to the plain version and the HTML, indexed version of Record of Poor Children, 1857 - 1862.

March 28, 2004: added links to online images for the 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses.

February 18, 2004: updated the Family Group Sheets page with links to new FGS (part of the USGenWeb Family Group Sheet Project) and added a FGS template.

October 6, 2003: added abstracts of deeds from Deed Book N and Deed Book Q (see the deed index), and the land estate of William Holden, 1893.

July 25, 2003: added links to the following court records: Homestead Exemption, Marinda Curtis, 1889

July 17, 2003: added abstracts/summaries of miscellaneous deeds and other property transactions from Deed Book A, Deed Book B, and Deed Book C (indexed here).

May 21, 2003: added links to the following estate records: Nisie Darnell, 1899.

May 21, 2003: added the estate records of Samuel Beck, 1870, submitted by Marian Miller.

May 20, 2003: added the estate records of Drewry Wall, 1848, submitted by Marian Miller.

May 14, 2003: added a biography of the family of Jeremiah Burton, submitted by Gerre Byrd.

May 7, 2003: added the marriage record of Columbus Markus and Martha Garrett, submitted by Donna Peeples.

May 1, 2003: the new marriage database kicked off with approximately 100 to 150 marriages submitted by Marian Miller.