NAMES CHANGED LEGALLY IN GEORGIA, 1800-1856

NAMES CHANGED LEGALLY IN georgia , 1800-1856 One of the problems facing the genealogist is tracing persons whose NAMES have been CHANGED . In georgia , alterations and changes innames and legitimizations were made by legislative act until the Act of March 6, 1856 which gave this power to the Inferior Court ofthe county of residence This Act established the procedure for adopting a child so as to render it capable of inheriting, the procedureto change a name and the procedure for the father of an illegitimate child to render the child legitimate. The name changes listed heregive as much information as could be gleaned from the Acts of the General Assembly from 18oo to 1856. In some cases only theprevious name and the new name is given. In other cases, specifically in case of legitimizations, the NAMES of the fathers and countiesof residence also were given. NAMES for which no footnotes are indicated are given in the list as a name altered and CHANGED without aspecific reason, though in some cases it would seem that these were legitimizations.

NAMES CHANGED LEGALLY IN GEORGIA, 1800-1856 One of the problems facing the genealogist is tracing persons whose names have been changed. In Georgia, alterations and changes in names and legitimizations were made by legislative act until the Act of March 6, 1856 which gave this power to the Inferior Court of

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