Clues to Finding More Ancestors

Clues to Finding More Ancestors

One needs to really dig into old boring records to piece together the genealogy puzzle. The Colonial Records of Georgia denotes an vessel from London wrecking on a sandbar near St. Simon's Island about 1740. This ship sank and all its passengers were lost, including the infamous magistrate, Thomas Causton, who had traveled to London to clear his good name of charges brought against him for the mishandling of estates. Causton had arrived in February of 1733 along with General Oglethorpe, the first shipload of passengers to settle Georgia. For obvious reasons, it is impossible to find the names of all passengers who attempted to cross the seas. John Wesley kept a diary of his tenure in Georgia. It is full of interesting details about the early settlers, but also provides names of the settlers and his notations concerning baptisms, marriages and deaths. German immigrants and their origins as well as biographies of the first settlers to Georgia is available to members of Georgia Pioneers

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Index to Georgia Wills-See Names of your Ancestors