GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY RESEARCH REQUESTS  

The staff of the Lake Blackshear Regional Library System will gladly assist you with any genealogy or local history questions that you might have. 

In order to determine if your question falls within the scope of the library's resources, you should make initial contact with the library staff at the library serving the area about which you have an interest, by visiting the library, by telephone, by email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  ), or by regular mail. 

If after that initial contact, you and the library staff determine that your questions might be answered through further research by the library staff, you will be asked to send the following to that library:

• A document clearly stating your questions, along with all of the relevant information (i.e. names, birth dates, death dates, marriage dates, city names, county names, etc.)
• A stamped, self-addressed envelope
• A check for $5.00 to cover the cost of the first five copies.  Checks should be made out to the library you are contacting.
• The maximum number of copies you are willing to pay for at $1.00 per copy after the first five.

Please be aware that while all of our counties have local history sections in one or more of their libraries, some of the libraries in our system are small.  The staff at those smaller libraries may refer you to another library in our system. 

Below is a list of the counties served by our library system and the libraries in those counties:

 CRISP COUNTY (Includes the cities of Cordele and Arabi):

CORDELE-CRISP CARNEGIE LIBRARY

115 East 11th Avenue

PO Box 310

Cordele, GA  31010-0310

229 276-1300

Monday and Wednesday 10:00-6:00

Tuesday and Thursday 10:00-8:00

Friday and Saturday 10:00-4:00

DOOLY COUNTY (Includes the cities of Byromville, Dooling, Lilly, Pinehurst, Unadilla and Vienna) :

DOOLY COUNTY LIBRARY

1200 East Union Street

Vienna, GA  31092

229 268-4687

Monday 1:30-6:00

Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 8:30-6:00

Friday 8:30-4:00

Saturday 8:30-1:00

ELIZABETH HARRIS LIBRARY

312 Harman Street, P.O. Box 930

Unadilla, GA  31091

478 627-9303

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 8:30-6:00

Friday 9:00-4:00

Saturday 9:00-12:00

 

BYROMVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

452 Main Street, P.O. Box 6

Byromville, GA  31007

478 433-5100

Tuesday and Thursday 4:00-6:00

Saturday 10:00-12:00

SCHLEY COUNTY (includes the city of Ellaville):

SCHLEY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

54 South Broad Street

P.O. Box 365

Ellaville, GA  31806

229 937-2004

Monday 10:00-4:30

Tuesday and Thursday 10:00-6:30

Friday 10:00-4:30

Saturday 10:00-2:00

SUMTER COUNTY (includes the cities of Americus, Andersonville, Leslie, DeSoto and Plains.:

LAKE BLACKSHEAR REGIONAL LIBRARY

307 East Lamar Street

Americus, GA  31709

229 924-8091

Monday 10:00-6:00

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:00-8:00

Friday and Saturday 10:00-4:00