This is a guide to some basic genealogy resources that relate to Haralson County. They are located in Special Collections at the Buchanan-Haralson Public Library.
Birth Records
The Haralson County Health Department has Haralson County birth records (from 1919 to the present). If you are looking for the names of someone’s parents, you may want to also look in the Census for the years when the person was a child.
Cemeteries
Haralson County, Georgia Cemeteries (2004)
SP 929.575838 HARAL
Census
On the library computers you can search the Ancestry database, which has all of the U.S. censuses, including the 1890 census fragment (most of that census was destroyed in a fire). HeritageQuest, which is also available on the library computers, also has census records.
Census records for 1940 will not be available until 2012, for privacy reasons. Census records for 1950 will be made available in 2022, and so on.
Family Histories
Family histories are shelved alphabetically by family name at SP 929.2.
Local Histories
Towns in Haralson County
Bremen, Georgia 100 years, 1883-1983
SP 975.838 BREME
The First One Hundred Years [Tallapoosa]
SP 975.838 GREEN
No More Storms A-Comin’ [Tallapoosa]
GOEGEL GOE
Haralson County
Haralson County, Georgia: A History (1994)
SP 929.3758 NEWMA
Haralson County History Book (1983)
SP 975.838 HARAL
Carroll and Haralson Counties in Vintage Postcards
SP 975.839 WIGGI
Haralson’s Heritage (1995)
SP 975.838 WILBU
Marriage Records
Haralson County, Georgia, Marriage Records 1856-1940
SP 929.375838 HARAL
Applications for Haralson County Marriage Licenses (on CD).
1929-1952
Call the library to check if it is available yet.
The Probate Court at the Haralson County Courthouse has more marriage and divorce records.
Military
Brief History of the Thirtieth Georgia Regiment [Civil War]
SP 975.8 ADAMS
Red Clay to Richmond: Trail of the Georgia 35th Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. [Civil War]
SP 973.7 FOX
You can also search for military records, especially Civil War records and World War I draft cards, in the Ancestry database on the library’s computers.
Newspapers/Obituaries
Paper copies of the following papers are available at the library. Complete years are not available for many years. For some years of the years listed, only one newspaper issue from that year has been saved. Please call the library to check to see if they have a particular date.
Newspaper Archive (provided by historical society)
Banner Messenger 1900, 1974-1975
Bremen Gateway 1925-1927, 1934, 1936-1937, 1939, 1941-1945, 1956, 1961-1963,
1965-1970, 1974, 1976, 1980
Haralson Beacon Gateway 1986-1995
Haralson County Tribune 1921-1925, 1927-1979, 1981-1983
Tallapoosa Journal 1993-1995
The Tribune 1900-1903, 1906-1920
Times-Advertiser 1983
Telephone and Address Directories
Polk’s Bremen, Tallapoosa, Buchanan City Directory
1964, 1967
Yearbooks
Buchanan Elementary School 1970
Buchanan High School 1954, 1956
Buchanan Middle and Primary School 1987
Haralson County High School 1970-1974, 1977-1978, 1980-1981, 1983-1991
West Haralson Elementary School 2000
For more yearbooks, check with the library or media center at the particular school.
