Historical and Genealogical Research

Paul K. Graham

Certified Genealogist SM

Publications

Books

1807 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees. Decatur, Ga.: The Genealogy Company, 2011. Documents the record of title transfer from the State of Georgia to an individual for each land lot distributed through the lottery process in 1807. (Buy the hardcover book.)

Admission Register of Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1842-1861. Decatur, Ga.: The Genealogy Company, 2011. Includes full transcriptions of the admission records for the state mental hospital’s first 888 patients. (Buy the hardcover book.)

Research in Georgia (with Linda Woodward Geiger). NGS Research in the States Series, Special Publication 101. Arlington, Va.: National Genealogical Society, 2011. A concise guide to the history, records, and research facilities of Georgia. Available in print or PDF download. (Buy the research guide.)

Georgia Land Lottery Research. Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Genealogical Society, 2010. A how-to guide for understanding the Georgia land lottery system of land surveying and distribution. (Buy the land lottery guide.)

Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts. Decatur, Ga.: The Genealogy Company, 2010. Includes fifty individual county maps showing militia district boundaries and watercourses in the headright region of Georgia. (Buy the atlas.)

United States Utility Patents, 1836-1853. Decatur, Ga.: The Genealogy Company, 2011. Provides a record of the number, issue date, inventor, and title of the first 10,000 numbered patents, issued from July 1836 to September 1853. (Buy the patent index.)

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees. Decatur, Ga.: The Genealogy Company, 2004. Documents the record of title transfer from the State of Georgia to an individual for each land lot distributed through the lottery process in 1805. (Buy the paperback reprint.)

1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draws. Decatur, Ga.: The Genealogy Company, 2005. An index to the List of Persons Entitled to Draws for the 1805 Land Lottery, listing most of the households in Georgia in the year 1803. (Buy the hardcover book.)

Articles, Research Guides, Reviews, and Transcriptions

“Edward Arista Vincent: Antebellum Immigrant, Cartographer, and Architect.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 95, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 391-407.

A Blue Ridge Family for Alsaph Briggs Barker.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 98, no. 2 (June 2010): 85-100.

The Search for Fulton County’s Stolen Records.” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 45, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 217-221.

Researching Individual Native Americans at the National Archives at Atlanta,” National Archives at Atlanta (Spring 2009).

“Google Your Family Tree: Unlock the Hidden Power of Google, by Daniel M. Lynch.” [Book Review] Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly 24 (March 2009): 10.

Foreign-born Voters in Savannah and Chatham County, 1867.” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 44, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 373-398; Part 2, vol. 45, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 35-66; Part 3, vol. 45, no. 2 (Summer 2009): 151-163.

Genealogical Research at the DeKalb History Center.” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 44, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 133-139.

Historical Records of Urban Georgia.” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 43, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 87-90.

“Courthouse Indexes Illustrated, by Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG.” [Book Review] Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly 21 (September 2006): 95.

Understanding the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery Registration.” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 40, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 171-173.

Media

Georgia Genealogy Crash Course, Family Tree University.

Sunny McClellan Morton, “Atlanta City Guide,” Family Tree Magazine 12, no. 2 (March 2011): 37-40.

Wevonneda Minis, “Jumping Hurdles in Native American Research,” Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.), 10 August 2009.

Andisheh Nouraee, “DeKalb’s Oldest House and Paul K. Graham.” Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 6 March 2008.