Searching for your ancestors can be very time-consuming yet rewarding. GeorgiaPioneers.com offers a broad spectrum of records online to assist in this work. One member of some years recently published a 600-page family history that included some of the connecting documents found on Georgia Pioneers. This is not a site to thumb through, as it contains genealogy records in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. (Also, some miscellaneous information in Arkansas, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania).
This vast collection is available to members of GeorgiaPioneers.com.
Never before has such an extensive collection of records from many resources been gathered and placed online. I spent 65 years traveling around, collecting genealogy resource materials! Here is what one subscriber recently said:
“Thank you for sharing your expertise and a massive library.”
The first subscribers of Georgia Pioneers beat inflation with a Big Stick!
Because the collection is so broad and growing, researchers continue their membership yearly. We still have subscribers from the beginning of the website twenty-five years ago. Those who elected to join using PayPal were “grandfathered” in at the initial rate. We continue this practice. Also, you can pause your PayPal account and return later at the same rate. This way, your membership price will never increase as long as you use PayPal.
When I first began searching for my ancestors (1960), there were no indexes to genealogy books, census records, etc., and no Internet. One had to do some digging.
Recent additions to the website include records from
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
The first route for immigrants to America was along the Wilderness Trail from Pennsylvania, which included trails through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. Small settlements were made along the way, near a fort. More than one county was involved, and county boundaries were frequently changed. Thus, the researcher must search records to unravel family histories. And a fascinating story is there, waiting for discovery.
The map below of the Wilderness Trails provides an excellent guideline of where to search beginning in the 1730s.