Pickens County Historical and Genealogical Resource

Pickens County, Georgia, was created 5 December 1853 from Cherokee and Gilmer Counties (see Georgia Laws 1853, page 306). The county seat is Jasper, GA 30143. In 1947 there was a courthouse fire resulting in the loss of some marriage records, but most of the burned marriage records have been reconstructed.

A great many resources for historical and genealogical are available. View a complete list of available resources.

The Genealogy Explorers

Join the Genealogy Explorers on the last saturday of each month, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at the Pickens County Library, Jasper, Georgia. All individuals interested in exploring their famiy history or genealogy are welcome.

The Explorers are a genealogical study group led by Don Thompson.

Records of Pickens County

• Pickens County Churches
• Town Creek Church

Records of Pickens County Families

Hamilton Mayfield, Civil War Veteran (please be patient, this page may load slowly)

Records of Pickens County

Cherokee Indians resided in the North Georgia Mountains as well as parts of North Carolina and Tennessee, before they were forced to remove to the west when White men wanted their land. The Cherokee Land Lottery and the Cherokee Gold Lottery of 1832 distributed the land the Cherokees had ceeded to Georgia by treaty. The Cherokee Indians are remembered today by the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association.

Records for Pickens County, Georgia, and her residents, have been created by the Federal Government (e.g., census records, military records, etc.); the State of Georgia (e.g.the 1832 Cherokee land lottery, state copies of tax digests, Confederate pension records, etc.); Pickens County (property records, probate records, vital records, etc.); and private records (church records, newspapers, etc.). Many (but not all) federal, state, county, and private   records are available on microfilm, and a very few indexes and/or abstracts are available on-line.

The Pickens County Library (Sequoiah Regional Library System of which Pickens County is a part) catalog is on-line. It includes media about Pickens County in book and microform. A catalog search of Pickens County will list a great number of records. You may also wish to search for more general types of records such as church, deeds, etc.

According to the Pat Bryant's Georgia Counties: Their Changing Boundaries [revised by Ingrid Shields (Atlanta: Secretary of State, 1983)] Pickens County's boundaries changed as follows: Pickens