All microfilm may be purchased through University of Georgia Newspaper project:  http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/titlelist.html  Thank you Laurel Baty for the information on the local newspapers.

Religious papers are a great source for early newspaper obituaries--many obituaries were published free of charge (most local newspapers charged per word for obituaries). The Methodists had numerous religious periodicals, the most notable for Georgia being "The Southern Christian Advocate." Brent Holcomb has published several volumes of abstracts from this paper.

Wofford College also has an online index to the obituaries in the "Southern Christian Advocate" starting with 1837. http://www.wofford.edu/sandorteszlerlibrary/archives/archivesObituarySearchForm.asp  A search for the place "Bartow" turned up 16 entries. Using "GA" there were over 2000 entries. Two entries appear for "Adairsville" and 6 for Cartersville. Many obituaries may not mention a city or state--so it a good idea to search by name.

The "Nashville Christian Advocate" obituaries (another Methodist periodical) have been abstracted by Jonathan K. T. Smith and all of his abstracts are on-line at: http://www.tngenweb.org/records/davidson/  There is a search engine just for the Nashville Christian Advocate entries and there are several early entries for Cass County, GA.

There are many Baptist papers for GA--the most notable being the"Christian Index" --obituaries and marriages have been abstracted and published in a volume series by Mary Overby. The following link gives a number of resources for searching for information on Georgia Baptists: http://tarver.mercer.edu/archives/strategies/biograph.htm

    Courtesy of   9/2006