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Rockdale
County,
Georgia
A Proud Member of the Genealogy
Trails Group
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Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for
Rockdale County, Georgia.
This County is available for adoption.
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through time and place by transcribing genealogical and historical data
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Any data we come
across will be added to this site.
We regret that we are unable to perform any personal research for you.
Rockdale County was
created on October 18, 1870, by act of the Georgia General Assembly and
received its name from Rockdale Baptist Church (est. 1846), which was
named after the granite strata that rests under the county's red clay
top soil. A bill introduced by John F. Hardin and John Harris carved
Rockdale out of the northern portion of Newton County; parts of
Rockdale County also came from neighboring Henry, Walton, Gwinnett, and
DeKalb counties. Conyers, Rockdale's only incorporated town and urban
center, became the county seat.
Prior to Rockdale becoming a county, the land had been inhabited by the
Creek and Cherokee; the boundary between the two native nations, the
Hightower Trail, ran directly through area.
The county seat is Conyers, Georgia
Cities and towns
Conyers -- Ebenezer
(unincorporated) -- Honey Creek (unincorporated)
Lakeview Estates (unincorporated) -- Magnet (unincorporated) --
Milstead (unincorporated) -- Pleasant Hill (unincorporated)
Princeton (unincorporated) -- Salem (unincorporated) -- Smyrna
(unincorporated)
Union Grove (unincorporated) -- Zingara (unincorporated) --
Oak Hill (unincorporated)
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Online Data
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Biographies
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Births
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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church Histories/Records
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County Records
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Court Records
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Deaths
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Family Bibles
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History
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Marriages
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Military
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Newspaper Data
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Obituaries
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Surnames
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Wills/Legal Records
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Website
Updates:
List of Cemeteries, List of Deaths 1919 to 1925, 1880
Mortality Schedule, Obits, Biographies
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