An 1818 statute of the Georgia legislature required all free persons of color to register with th...

The records in this book by Michael Ports are based upon an original Bibb County minute book for ...

Volume II in this series by Michael A. Ports contains transcriptions of the freeblack registers f...

The county's Inferior Court, made up of five justices of the peace for the county, tried any civi...

This is the fifth and final volume in a series by Michael A. Ports; it consists of transcriptions...

Baltimore County clerks began recording marriage licenses filed there in 1777. The first manuscri...

On June 9, 1825, Governor George M. Troup signed into law the authorization for a lottery of form...

Michael Ports continues his assault on Jefferson County, Georgia, source records with this ambiti...

These Georgia tax digests are a significant genealogical resource, especially prior to 1820, a pe...

This is the fourth volume of Michael Ports's transcriptions of Baltimore County marriage records;...

The Inferior Court had jurisdiction over county business matters, such as care for the poor, buil...

This volume is a transcription of the free black registers for the Georgia counties of Elbert, Ha...