Genealogy Projects tagged with georgia counties on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Cherokee County, Georgia, USA

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, Georgia Cherokee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1831, covering a vast area northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River (except for Carroll County). It was named after the Cherokee people who lived in the area at that time. The discovery of gold in local str...

  • Lumpkin County, Georgia

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lumpkin County, Georgia.= Official Websites =This area was settled by the Cherokee, who also occupied areas of what became delimited as southeastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.Lumpkin County was created on December 3, 1832. The county was named for Wilson Lumpkin, who at the time was Governor of Georgia. In the 1830s, gold w...