The Georgia black book : morbid, macabre & sometimes disgusting records of genealogical value / by Robert Scott Davis, Jr.
Item details
- ISBN: 0893082910
- ISBN: 9780893082918
- ISBN: 0893086002
- ISBN: 9780893086008
- ISBN: 0893088145
- ISBN: 9780893088149
- Physical Description: volumes <1-3> : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Easley, S.C. : Southern Historical Press, ©1982-2007.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Vol. 2 has subtitle: More morbid, macabre & sometimes disgusting records of genealogical value--just when you thought it was safe to get back into genealogy. Includes indexes. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (v. [1], pages [393]-397). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Vol. 1. A tribute to my state -- Horse thieves and other charming people, 1754-1823 -- Liars, 1810-1838 -- Convicts, 1817-1850 -- Murders, murderers and murder victims, 1823-1869 -- Convicts, 1851-1871 -- Insane asylum inmates, 1853-1870 -- Principal keeper's reports, 1866-1873; list of convicts to fill gaps in chapter 5 -- Racial incidents, 1865-1868 -- Central register of convicts, 1867-1879 -- More murders, murderers and murder victims, 1869-1900 -- Central register of convicts, 1872-1897 -- Other sources equally disgusting. Vol. 2. Genealogical sources relating to felons, felony victims, asylum inmates, and others -- Divorces and feme sole in Acts of the Georgia Legislature, 1793-1868 -- Names changed in the Legislative Acts of Georgia, 1800-1856 by John E. Moseley -- Georgia defaulters of the Federal Direct Tax of 1812 -- Georgia widows and orphans of the War of 1812 (1812-1819) -- Georgia State Insane Asylum inmates, 1842-1853 -- Georgia Civil War depredations and state troops' courts-martial -- Artificial limbs for Georgia veterans, 1866-1867 -- Reports of racial violence, 1868-1871 -- Widows and orphans of the Civil War and the Georgia Masonic Orphans Home lottery, 1870-1876 -- Some names in state prisoner records, 1877-1886 -- 1880 Census of the Georgia Asylum -- Pardon and parole files, 1858-1942. |
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