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Oglethorpe County, Georgia                         A Proud Member of the Genealogy Trails Group Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Oglethorpe 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 your data contributions. If you think you might be interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information and instructions on signing up. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact us. Any data we come across will be added to this site. We regret that we are unable to perform any personal research for you. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists Oglethorpe County is named for Georgia's founder, James Oglethorpe. The county was founded on December 19, 1793. The county seat is Lexington Cities and towns Arnoldsville ~ Crawford ~ Lexington ~ Maxeys ~ Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles History Marriages Military Newspaper Data Obituaries Villages Wills  Website Updates: June 2013: WW2 Honor List for Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Force - transcribed  by Peggy Thompson Bio: BARROW - Transcribed by LA Bauer   May 2013: Vesta, a post-hamlet- Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz Bio for WATTERS - Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz March 2013: Towns Winterville, a town Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz Stephens, a town Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz Smithonia, one of the important towns Transcribed by Kristen Bisanz Obit for POPE, BURWELL T. - Transcribed by Jeanne Kalkwarf   Feb 2011 List of Cemeteries and another Bio LUMPKIN Biography for James Oglethorpe, Death List for 1919 to 1921- Villages-1840 Pensioners   Sep 2009: Obits for BROWN, CALDWELL, CRAWFORD, MARTIN, PASS, PROSSER, SMITH, THOMAS  Jan 2008: CULBREATH death notice   Adjacent Counties | Elbert County (northeast) | | Wilkes County (east) | | Taliaferro County (southeast) | | Greene County (south) | | Oconee County (west-southwest) | | Clarke County (west) | | Madison County (north) | 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 © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.