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Lincoln County, Georgia                         A Proud Member of the Genealogy Trails Group Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Lincoln County, Georgia. This County is available for adoption. Our goal at Genealogy Trails is to help you track your ancestors through time and place by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This is a continuation of our original, Illinois Genealogy Trails History and Genealogy Project and we are excited about this opportunity to expand into other states. We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact us. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as our Illinois websites are. If you think you might be interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information and instructions on signing up.. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists Any data we come across will be added to this site. We regret that we are unable to perform any personal research for you. It was created on February 20, 1796. The county seat is Lincolnton, Georgia On February 20, 1796 Lincoln County became the twenty fourth county in the state of Georgia. Before then it was part of Wilkes county which is just west of Lincoln County. Lincoln County was named after an American patriot from the revolutionary war named General Benjamin Lincoln. He was born in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1733, and also played a big role in the John Burgoyne’s campaign. Some say in a very popular myth that he played a major role in the surrender of Yorktown in 1781. In 1809 he retired and soon died in 1810. Cities and towns Chennault Lincolnton ONLINE DATA Only the links in color are active. EMail Us Newspaper Data Marriages Census Misc Wills History Biographies Military Cemeteries           Website updates: 27 Dec 2007: County History Adjacent Counties Elbert County Wilkes County McDuffie County Columbia County McCormick County, SC If you think you might be interested in hosting one of the above counties, you can read the Volunteer Information page Here ~ Please Report Broken Links ~ Visit our National Genealogy Trails Website Copyright © 2007 by Genealogy Trails - Contributors retain all copyrights.