The offices that publish

The Archives, the Governor’s executive acts and the statewide services portal: three very different front doors to state paperwork.

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  Reading a church archive from far away

  A church’s archive documents presence the way a government file does: appointments, correspondence, buildings and membership; distance changes the access, not the method.

  • Church archives
  • Finding aids
  • Remote research

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  When the official record is silent: what ephemera preserves

  Official files capture acts and decisions; the working life around them survives in programmes, session sheets and itineraries nobody was required to keep. How researchers fill that silence.

  • Ephemera
  • Archives
  • Unofficial documents

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  The documents the Governor’s office publishes

  Executive orders, signed legislation, appointments and proclamations sit together under one Executive Action heading, next to constituent services and a press archive.

  • Executive orders
  • Signed legislation
  • Proclamations

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  What the Georgia Archives holds and how to consult it

  Collecting since 1918, attached to the University System of Georgia, open Tuesday to Saturday in Morrow, with Virtual Vault, Finding Aids, the GIL catalog and an Ask an Archivist form.

  • Virtual Vault
  • Finding Aids
  • Ask an Archivist

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  Keeping your own copies of portal files

  Documents pulled from state and county portals change or vanish when sites are rebuilt; this page sets out how to keep, date and verify your own copies.

  • Portals
  • File keeping
  • Checksums

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  Reading a public figure through his own papers

  Speeches, letters and drafts are the primary record of what a public man said; this page sets out what the papers can prove and where a reader finds the texts.

  • Primary sources
  • Papers
  • Quotation

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  Using georgia.gov to find a state service

  One flat index, a short list of most-used services and a rotating front page: the statewide portal is a routing layer, not a records system, and knowing that saves a detour.

  • Services A-Z
  • Register a Business