US Southern Colonies Province of Georgia Team

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Welcome to the team page for the Province of Georgia, US Southern Colonies Project. This page has information about team members, team goals, and additional resources. Click here for links to other Colonial Teams. Click here for a page that focuses on the history and development of the Province of Georgia. Click here for Province of Georgia Reliable Sources.

The Province of Georgia team focuses on profiles of persons who lived in Georgia, including settlers and officials, up to 4th July 1776.

The Team

How To Join Our Team

Sticker for your Profile: {{Member|Southern Colonies}}

Team Leader: Sandy Patak I currently live in Georgia. I am heavily researching the founding settlers, to include those that came as Trustees and those that came on their own. I am happy to do a Fold3 Lookup. I also have a copy of the "A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia" book with names, dates, sometimes occupations and religion.

Team Members (add your interest area/focus):

• Ginny Fields -
• Cindy Crafton- many of my ancestors immigrated through Virginia and the Carolinas. They ended up in Georgia where I now live.
• Sandy Patak - Adding Cemetery Categories and Tombstones Photos, Adding & Improving Profiles of Founding Settlers, Locally Researching Georgia Settlers and their Districts/Parishes.
• Melissa Dunn Miller - Trying to help other as much as possible while learning about family from North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. I've hit a wall.
• Michelle (Hartman) Detwiler Currently I have been working on USBH Plantations projects, creating plantations, and adding lists of enslaved who live there. Some of the plantation owners I have researched have very poor profiles. I have learned to create good profiles, clean up the not so good ones, and add real sources to them. This area of research seems to cross over into Southern Colonies bio improvement and sourcing and why I signed on to help here.
• Steve Lake Returning to Southern Colonies and Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas, Georgia Teams
• Thomas Lawrence- The Toombs Family arrived in Virginia in 1650, then became huge landed people in Georgia from land Bounties,
• James Little - about James
• Chad Olivent - Both parents from Georgia. Lots of connections pre 1776, including a handful of Salzburgers.
• Robby Nesbitt - interested in Provinces of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Colony of Virginia as that is where there are the most connections.
• Alan M. Pendleton - Working on early Irish settlers in Queensborough Township. I mostly work with Mccullar and McGee profiles of that time period. Adding Oglethorpe's Forty Irish "Convict" to WikiTree.
• Tralawney Reeder- Member of Province of Carolina, Colony of Virginia, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia Teams. I am interested is finding more information about the Rhodes and related families from Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia.
• Helen Rice: Interest areas are improving profiles of my ancestors, adding details and family. Working on profiles of the settlers of Ebenezer.
• Mary Richardson - Scottish Carolina immigrants who fought in the skirmishes before the revolution and received Georgia bounty for service in American Revolution
• Melissa Reed ancestors have been scattered throughout the southern colonies since 1600s. Most ended up settling in South Carolina and Georgia
• Ken Spratlin - Currently compiling and properly sourcing all records for Spratlin(g) surname in Virginia pre-1800. Many removed to GA and SC, and then west.
• Jerry Medlock- All of the Colony Teams and the Jamestowne Team are of interest to me. I feel like I can add something to them all. Our own DNA connection is exciting.
• Kathy Zipperer -- Working with Amanda Torrey on Salzburgers.
• Marsha Sturdivant - Currently working on the Heards in northern Georgia, from Virginia and connected to Heardmont, Georgia. Working on the Province of Georgia Maintenance Categories: Needs Biography and Needs Research.
• Paul Tolleson rejoined SoCOL 7/10/23
• Eve Warren Mayes - about Eve
• Dawn Watson interested in the Carolina, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia teams 11/23/2023
• Michael Whitehurst Whitehurst and Cooke ancestors came here in the early 1600s.
• Carol Wilder -
• Tara Wildes - Researching the early settlers in the city of Savannah and the Wiregrass Region of Georgia.

Goals

To improve the profiles of people born or settled in the Province of Georgia prior to 1776 so that they are researched as accurately and thoroughly as they can be, that they are fully sourced, biographies are written, family added and, if possible, so that they are connected to the global family tree. Generally, you would only add one Colony-level Colonists category. Province of Georgia Sample Profile: Thomas Gibbons (1757-1826)

• Add new Province of Georgia Profiles with complete sourcing and biography
• Improve on existing Georgia Colonists Profiles with complete sourcing and biography
• Add the {{US Southern Colonist Sticker|Georgia}} Sticker to all Profiles of Georgia Colonists.
• Connect Province of Georgia Profiles to the Global Family Tree
• Adding Project Protection for needed Profiles by Requesting PPP from the Southern Colonist Team.

Categories

• The Upper Level Category for Province of Georgia includes Parishes. If you know the Parish for the Profile, please find/add the appropriate Parish Category.
• The Upper Level Category for Immigrants from Various Countries including England and Ireland. If other Countries are needed, please request from your Team Leader. If you know from where the Profiled Individual migrated from, please add the appropriate Immigrant Category.
• The Category for All Southern Colonists - Georgia Colonists Profiles prior to July 4th, 1776.
• Please do not use the Province of Georgia Category for Profiles. Use this Sticker instead: {{US Southern Colonist Sticker|Georgia}}.

Tasks

Team Volunteers Needed

Contact Sandy to coordinate your efforts with Team Members

1. Adding the first Jewish Settlers to the Province of Georgia
2. Adding the Georgia Moravians settlers, 1735-1745
3. Adding the Colonial members of Midway Congregational Society and Church
4. Help with adding Oglethorpe's Forty Irish "Convict" to WikiTree.
5. Help with adding the Queensborough Township: Scotch-Irish expansion of Georgia, 1763-1776
6. Go through the list of Georgia Colonists and ADD the appropriate Immigrant Location

Current Team Mini Projects

Contact Sandy to coordinate your efforts with Team Members

1. Add 112 People to WikiTree who became the First 40 Families to arrive in Georgia. They arrived on the Ann Passenger Ship.
2. Adding the Salzburgers of Georgia to WikiTree Category:Georgia_Salzburgers
3. Adding the First Quakers to Category:Wrightsboro Monthly Meeting, Wrightsboro, Georgia - Province of Georgia, Wrightsborough, Georgia Settlement
4. Adding the Georgia Scottish Highlanders to WikiTree Category:Georgia_Scottish_Highlanders from the Passenger List
5. Adding/Improving Existing WikiTree Profiles for the Trustees of Georgia.

Ongoing Tasks

1. Identify existing Profiles on WikiTree that are categorized as {{US Southern Colonist}} *(if Not Project Protected)* OR {{US Southern Colonist Sticker}} and replace with {{US Southern Colonist Sticker|Georgia}}
2. Identify existing Profiles on WikiTree that are not categorized as Southern Colonist|Georgia and add this sticker: {{US Southern Colonist Sticker|Georgia}}
3. Improve on all Profiles of Georgia Colonists where needed.
4. Add New Georgia Colonists Profiles to WikiTree with accurate sourcing and biography.
5. Further Categorize Existing and New Province of Georgia Profiles to include but not limited to: Georgia Cemeteries, Immigrants to Georgia, Parishes and Georgia, Slave Owners, Georgia, Slaves in coordination with the US Black Heritage Project.
6. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Georgia state tribes. Georgia's two largest tribes were Creek and Cherokee.
7. Here you can search for your own ancestors - including those who are American Immigrants. Check to see if any of your ancestors are found through the search are "new to you" and if their profiles could use some attention, categorization, etc.

Maintenance Tasks

1. Scan Category:Georgia,_Needs_Profiles_Created for our timeframe and add Family Profiles to these existing Profiles.
2. Scan Category:Georgia,_Needs_Biography for our timeframe and Biographies to these existing Profiles.
3. Work on Current Georgia Southern Colonists Profiles that need Researched or Relationship Reviewed or A Biography.
4. Work on Current Georgia Southern Colonists Profiles that Need Sources or are Unsourced.
5. Work on fixing profiles we manage in the database errors report (search for Georgia)
6. Work on fixing PPP / Project Management DBE report for Wikitree-24
7. Work on profiles in the Georgia Project Maintenance Categories that need attention. Many fit in our Province of Georgia Timeline.

General Georgia Tasks

1. Scan Category: Georgia to make sure no people have been added to it that fit our Southern Colonists Timeline. If any are found, add them to the Southern Colonists|Georgia category with the sticker.
2. Help answer questions on G2G that are tagged with Georgia.
3. Help with Georgia errors in general when time allows. (See also Georgia Errors.)
4. If you have any Georgia resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the Georgia Resources Page.
5. If you live in Georgia, please consider adding your name to the Georgia Research Assistance page (see Offering Your Assistance).

Resources

• Wikipedia Page on The Province of Georgia |Province of Georgia on Wikipedia.
• Resource Page for Colony of Georgia which provides a breakdown on early settlements, resources, maps, images.
• A Great Short Primer on Province of Georgia that provides facts in an easy to read format.
• Georgia Archives
• Colonial Wills of Georgia
• A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia Coulter and Saye, editors. Athens, Georgia. The University of Georgia Press. 1949.
• List of Europeans to Georgia, original handwritten book,
• Library of Congress, Establishing the Georgia Colony 1732-1750
• Atlanta Archives
• Hofer, J. M. GEORGIA SALZBURGERS.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, 1934, pp. 99–117. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40576312. Accessed 21 Dec. 2020.
• Indigenous Peoples of Georgia includes Tribes and Bands of Georgia and Reservations.
• Austin, Jeannette Austin The Georgians : genealogies of pioneer settlers. Baltimore Genealogical Pub Co, 1984. A few of Oglethorpe's Original Settlers are included but this is mostly those settlers from other States after the American Revolution.
• Mary Bondurant Warren (1930-2021) transcribed MANY colonial Georgia records & published them, both in printed format as well as Kindle on Amazon. Her 10-volume set of the Georgia Governor & Council Journals has many details of life in Georgia from 1753 (when the Trustees turned the colony back to the King) until the end of the Revolution (1783). The printed volumes are fully indexed & have maps & pictures. Search for "British Georgia" on Amazon for the volumes that pertain to the colonial era of GA.

Sources

This Team uses Standardized Sources that are collected at Province_of_Georgia_Reliable_Sources.

Colonial Teams

• Province of Maryland Team
• Colony of Virginia Team
• Province of Carolina (Pre-1712) Team
  • Province of North Carolina (1712-1776) Team
  • Province of South Carolina (1712-1776) Team
• Province of Georgia Team