Coweta County Wills and Estates

The maps have been scanned in such a manner as to provide details for locating creeks, branches, rivers, lakes, churches, schools and cemeteries. This will enable you to better locate the old homeplace using the description from old non-specific deeds. Also, a convenience in locating both private and public cemeteries in the area.

Genealogy Tips.

Annual Returns should be researched from the opening of the probate record until the end, following the report of each year. This practice is vital to locating heirs and marriages. Every recipient of the estate should be noted and that name searched in the marriage records as daughters married local neighbors who may also have purchased items from the estate, etc. The vouchers represent "receipts" of heirs, merchants and other transactions. That is where you will find the names of husbands, as married daughters could not directly inherit. Researchers should also research Henry, Fayette and Spalding Counties.