Clarke County Probate Records on FamilySearch.org
Images of many Clarke County, Georgia probate records are now available for free online. Use our indexes below to help you find the image you need, try the FamilySearch Georgia Probate Records search page, or browse the images on FamilySearch to look for the index in each volume.
Clarke County Probate Court Finding Aid
Clarke County, Georgia Probate Court Records Finding Aid
This finding aid is an outcome of the 1999-2000 grant funded by the Historical Repositories Grant Program of the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The main objectives of that project were to find, clean, sort, inventory, and arrange the Probate Court records of Athens-Clarke County as well as to develop a finding aid to easily locate the information. The original finding aid is a paper document with copies located in the Athens-Clarke County Probate Court and the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library. The reports contained in the finding aid were generated from a database that was developed as part of the project. The web version was adapted from the database reports and created with assistance from the Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society.
Although this finding aid is useful in many different ways, perhaps one of the most exciting aspects is that the estate and guardianship loose records are indexed and can be accessed by surname or by whole boxes. One can also see whether the record has been microfilmed and by using the key on the main page, tell where the microfilm is housed.
The records that were cataloged are housed at the Clarke County Courthouse in Athens, GA, but one is advised to make an appointment with the records clerk (who stays very busy!) and to check online resources available on FamilySearch and Ancestry.
Additional Clarke County Indexes and Records
Index of Clarke County Deed Book H
Deed Book H of Clarke County, Georgia 1807-1814, is not included in the master 1801-1906 Direct and Indirect Index. This link takes you to an Index for the missing deed book.
Clarke County Returns and Mixed Records Books ABCD – MM
Includes a chart of records found in each volume ABCD – MM and an alphabetical index of names found in volumes ABCD – JJ.
Index to Clarke County Returns and Mixed Records Book FF only
Book FF of the Returns & Mixed Records contains an Inventory and Appraisement
of the estates of 1881-1914.
Index to Clarke County Will Books A – D
Includes the name of the testator, will book, and page number on which the will is located. Locations of the administration, inventory, appraisal, and sale of the estate are indicated when possible as well as the availablity of loose papers associated with the will that have been uncovered.
Index to Clarke County Will Book E
Includes the name of the testator, will book, and page number on which the will is located.
Clarke County Superior Court, February Term, 1827
Minutes for the Clarke County Superior Court from the February Term, 1827 as they appeared in The Athenian, Friday, March 2, 1827
1880 Clarke County, Georgia Petit Jury List
Petit jury list transcribed from the Southern Watchman July 2, 1880
1831 to Febry 1840 Clarke County, Georgia Inferior Court Jury Lists
from Clarke County, Georgia Inferior Court Minutes
1831 to Febry 1840 Clarke County, Georgia Poor Lists
from Clarke County, Georgia Inferior Court Minutes
Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society 