Named in the honor of William Schley, Schley County was created in the year 1857 with an area of 167.82 sq mi. About 5K people with the enriched cultural varieties of White, Native American, Black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others including more than 1.4K households and 1K families live here. Ellaville forms the county seat and the largest town of Schley.

Tracing one’s family roots or tracking the lineal history on divorce verdicts, land registration deeds, birth, immigration and naturalization details, census figures, military service history and war martyrs achievement niceties, marriage registration page and volume number, death and obituary news along with burial and cemetery reports, along with will and estate data is now a matter of seconds using the Schley County data website.