Alabama Genealogy – Free Alabama Genealogy

This Alabama state page of our website provides direct links to major databases and historical titles and information found on Alabama genealogy and history, whether they exist on our site, or across the web.

Alabama Black Genealogy

  • Alabama African American Records
    • WPA Slave Narratives
      Slave narratives are stories of surviving slaves told in their own words and ways. Unique, colorful, and authentic, these slave narratives provide a look at the culture of the South during slavery which heretofore had not been told.
    • Alabama, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
      The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads. This collection corresponds with NARA microfilm publication M1900, Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872.
    • Alabama African American Cemeteries
    • Alabama African American Census
    • Alabama African American Census, Mortality Schedules, and Slave Schedules
    • Alabama Slave Owners
      Many wills contained information about slaves.  Reading these wills may provide the reader with a clue on their ancestors.

Alabama Historical Archives

  • Alabama Archives
    • Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections
      • Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
        This digital collection contains over 20,000 images from the Alabama Department of Archives and History holdings. It includes a wide range of photographs, prints, and drawings from the early nineteenth century to the present day covering many topics and individuals from all walks of life.
      • Alabama Textual Materials Collection
        This collection contains a selection of textual materials such as letters, diaries, minutes, fliers, clippings, and excerpts from books. State publications, the Alabama Historical Quarterly, the Alabama Official and Statistical Register, and the History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography are in separate collections.
      • Alabama Maps Collection
        This collection contains a sampling of maps from the extensive holdings at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The maps span 300 years, documenting not only Alabama’s geographic past, but also that of the region, nation, and continent.
      • Alabama Folklife Collection
        This collection features a selection of images and audio recordings from the Archive of Alabama Folk Culture (AAFC). The AAFC was established in 2007 in order to house and make available the body of fieldwork gathered by the Alabama Folklife Association
      • Alabama Genealogy and History Publications
        To commemorate Alabama’s bicentennial, the genealogical and historical community has partnered with the Alabama Bicentennial Commission and the Alabama Department of Archives and History to create a portal to publications documenting the story of the state’s people and its past. Much of this collection will consist of the newsletters and journals produced by historical and genealogical organizations, but other relevant resources may be added as well.
      • Alabama Civil War Newspapers
        In honor of the Civil War sesquicentennial, ADAH has begun a project to make all of its newspapers from that era available online. These issues have been digitized from microfilm.
      • History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
        The History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, written by Thomas McAdory Owen, was published in 1921 by the S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. The company had approached Dr. Owen in 1911 with a proposal that he produce a history and biographical dictionary of the state
      • Alabama Historical Quarterly
        Collection contains the 119 issues of the Alabama Historical Quarterly published by the Alabama Department of Archives and History in 1930 and between 1940 and 1982.
      • Alabama Writer’s Project Collection
        The Works Progress Administration (WPA), the principal relief agency of the second New Deal, was an attempt to provide work rather than welfare during the Great Depression. Under the WPA, buildings, roads, airports and schools were constructed.

Bibles from Alabama Families

Alabama Cemeteries

Alabama Census Records

  • Alabama Census Records
    • Alabama Mortality Census Records
      The 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1885 censuses included inquiries about persons who had died in the twelve months immediately preceding the enumeration. The 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 Alabama mortality census all survived. Mortality schedules list deaths from 1 June through 31 May of 1849–50, 1859–60, 1869–70, 1879–80, and 1884–85. They provide nationwide, state-by-state death registers that predate the recording of vital statistics in most states. While deaths are under-reported, the mortality schedules remain an invaluable source of information.
    • Alabama State Census Records 1820-1866
      This database contains state censuses from Alabama for the years 1820, 1850, 1855, and 1866. Each of these censuses recorded the names of the head of households and the number of other household inhabitants according to gender and age categories. Some years also included race categories and distinguished between individuals who were free and slave.
    • Alabama, State Census, 1855
      Index to the census taken in Alabama in 1855 at FamilySearch.
    • Alabama, State Census, 1866
      Index of the 1866 census from Alabama at FamilySearch. This census lists head of household and has statistical information about the makeup of the household. In some counties, the records indicate whether there were soldiers in the household who were killed, disabled, or died of sickness.
    • 1910 Alabama Census Map

Alabama Church Records

  • Alabama Church Records
    • The Clayhill Church Register 1887-1939
      Clayhill Church is off County Road 5511 in Brundidge, Pike County, Alabama. These images are digital representations of their complete church register covering the years of 1887-1939. This is a valuable source of genealogical information for those who comprised the membership of this church. It’s also a great complement to any transcription of its cemetery as it may include information on the unreadable headstones, and those who have no headstones. Included within this register are birth, baptism, death, burial and membership information. Unfortunately there was no marriage information recorded.
    • Church & Synagogue Records Database
      This collection consists of records from churches and synagogues in Alabama, and includes major denominations such as Baptist, Catholic, Church of Christ, Episcopal, Jewish, Methodist and Presbyterian. Records that can be found in the collection include minute books, registers, and other record books, scrapbooks, bulletins and souvenir programs, church histories, membership letters, cash books, pamphlets, pastor biographies, baptism records, and funeral records. 

Alabama Genealogy County Websites

Alabama County Genealogy

  • Autauga County Alabama Genealogy
    An extensive collection of material relating to Autauga County Alabama genealogy, includes vital records, cemeteries, census, history, and other records.

Alabama Court Records

Alabama Directories

  • 1867 Voter Registration database
    The Alabama 1867 voter registration records were created as a direct result of a Reconstruction Act passed by the United States Congress on March 23, 1867. The act required the commanding officer in each military district to hold, before September 1, 1867, a registration of all male citizens, 21 years and older, in each county who were also qualified to vote and who had taken the loyalty oath. Each registrant visited the local registration office, took the oath, and was listed in the Voter Registration record. Individuals ineligible to register included Confederate veterans and any person who had previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, as an officer of the United States, as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, and who later engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or gave aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, and whose “disability” had not been removed by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress.

Alabama Genealogy Databases

  • Alabama Databases at Ancestry
    Ancestry is the largest provider of genealogy data online. The billions of records they provide have advanced genealogy online beyond imagination just a decade ago. While some of these databases are free, many require a subscription.

Alabama Genealogical and Historical Societies

Alabama History

  • Alabama History
    Albert James Pickett writes about a history he is passionate about. The early history of Alabama. Unlike other Alabama history books you may read however, his view is very unique. He lived at a time when he knew many of the original founders of the state of Alabama, and he interviewed many eye witnessed to the events he writes about.

Alabama Immigration Records

Alabama Land Records

  • U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
    3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.

Alabama Maps

Alabama Military Records

  • Alabama Colonial Forts
    List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
  • Revolutionary War
  • 1840 Pensioners Database
  • Alabama Civil War Records
    • Alabama Civil War Map
      Map depicting the battles fought within the state of Alabama during the Civil War.
    • Alabama Civil War Census Records, Confederate
    • Alabama Civil War Enlistment Records
    • Alabama Civil War Miscellaneous Records
    • Alabama Civil War Muster Rolls
      This information has been collected from a variety of sources. It provides the names of soldiers who fought for the various companies for the Confederacy during the Civil War. It is a work in progress.
    • Alabama Civil War Pension Records
    • Alabama Civil War Rosters
    • Alabama, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers
      Confederate service records of soldiers who served in organizations from Alabama. The records include a jacket-envelope for each soldier, labeled with his name, his rank, and the unit in which he served. The jacket-envelope typically contains card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers, Union prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, inspection reports; and the originals of any papers relating solely to the particular soldier. For each military unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by the soldier’s surname. The Military Unit field may also display the surname range (A-G) as found on the microfilm. This collection is a part of RG 109, War Department Collection of Confederate Records and is National Archive Microfilm Publication M311.
    • Alabama, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
      Union service records of soldiers who served in the First Regiment of Alabama Cavalry.The records include a jacket-envelope for each soldier, labeled with his name, his rank, and the unit in which he served. The jacket-envelope typically contains card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers,prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, inspection reports; and the originals of any papers relating solely to the particular soldier. For each military unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by the soldier’s surname. The Military Unit field may also display the surname range (A-G) as found on the microfilm. This collection is a part of RG 94, Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917 and is National Archive Microfilm Publication M276.
    • Alabama Confederate Service Cards
      On-line database, also available on self-service microfilm. This series contains information about individual soldiers from Alabama and was compiled from original sources such as muster rolls, pension files, and records at the National Archives. Service cards typically include the name of the soldier, his home county, his age at the date of his enlistment, the date and place of enlistment, and the company and regiment. Cards may also include a list of the engagements the soldier took part in; whether he was killed, captured, or wounded; and date of parole. The source of information is often cited. Arranged alphabetically by surname.
    • Confederate Officers Photograph Album
      This collection contains one hundred and ninety-two cartes-de-visite photographs of officers who served in the Confederate army. The majority of the officers served as either major generals or brigadier generals in the Confederate forces. The collection includes the photographs of many lesser known officers as well as the famous; such as Robert E. Lee, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, John Tyler Morgan, Stonewall Jackson, and JEB Stuart.
    • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
      Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
    • Civil War Service Database
      Information in this database was compiled from a multitude of sources at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Beginning in the early 1900s, the Archives staff read through muster rolls, newspapers, governors’ records, veterans’ censuses, and state pension records to create a card file that was arranged alphabetically by servicemen’s names. Each time a source was discovered, a new card was created; thus, an individual might have multiple cards. The records also include entries for slaves. Search for ‘slave’ in the surname field. The information on the cards was transcribed in this searchable database.
    • Alabama Civil War Pension Records
    • Alabama Civil War Rosters
    • Alabama, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers
      Confederate service records of soldiers who served in organizations from Alabama. The records include a jacket-envelope for each soldier, labeled with his name, his rank, and the unit in which he served. The jacket-envelope typically contains card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers, Union prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, inspection reports; and the originals of any papers relating solely to the particular soldier. For each military unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by the soldier’s surname. The Military Unit field may also display the surname range (A-G) as found on the microfilm. This collection is a part of RG 109, War Department Collection of Confederate Records and is National Archive Microfilm Publication M311.
    • Alabama, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
      Union service records of soldiers who served in the First Regiment of Alabama Cavalry.The records include a jacket-envelope for each soldier, labeled with his name, his rank, and the unit in which he served. The jacket-envelope typically contains card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers,prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, inspection reports; and the originals of any papers relating solely to the particular soldier. For each military unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by the soldier’s surname. The Military Unit field may also display the surname range (A-G) as found on the microfilm. This collection is a part of RG 94, Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917 and is National Archive Microfilm Publication M276.
    • Alabama Confederate Service Cards
      On-line database, also available on self-service microfilm. This series contains information about individual soldiers from Alabama and was compiled from original sources such as muster rolls, pension files, and records at the National Archives. Service cards typically include the name of the soldier, his home county, his age at the date of his enlistment, the date and place of enlistment, and the company and regiment. Cards may also include a list of the engagements the soldier took part in; whether he was killed, captured, or wounded; and date of parole. The source of information is often cited. Arranged alphabetically by surname.
    • Confederate Officers Photograph Album
      This collection contains one hundred and ninety-two cartes-de-visite photographs of officers who served in the Confederate army. The majority of the officers served as either major generals or brigadier generals in the Confederate forces. The collection includes the photographs of many lesser known officers as well as the famous; such as Robert E. Lee, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, John Tyler Morgan, Stonewall Jackson, and JEB Stuart.
    • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
      Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
  • World War 1 Records
  • World War II
  • Korean War Casualty List
  • Vietnam War Casualty List

Alabama Native American Records

Alabama Newspapers

Alabama Vital Records

  • Alabama Vital Records Information
  • Alabama County Courthouse Addresses
  • Births
    • Alabama Births and Christenings
      Name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state of Alabama for the years of 1881-1930. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 6,841 records. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.
  • Deaths
    • Alabama Deaths and Burials
      Name index to death and burial records from the state of Alabama for the years of 1881-1952. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 110,202 records. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.
    • Alabama Deaths
      Name index to death certificates from the state of Alabama, 1908-1974.
    • Alabama Mortality Schedules
      Mortality schedules are useful for tracing and documenting genetic symptoms and diseases, and for verifying and documenting African American, Chinese, and Native American ancestry. By using these schedules to document death dates and family members, it is possible to follow up with focused searches in obituaries, mortuary records, cemeteries, and probate records. They can also provide clues to migration points and supplement information in population schedules.
  • Marriages
    • Alabama Marriages
      Name index to marriage records from the state of Alabama for the years of 1816-1957. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. This set contains 1,472,271 records. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.
    • Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950
      This collection of marriage records for Alabama counties includes: a) indexed records with images; b) indexed records without images; and c) images which can be browsed but do not have searchable indexes. The indexed records without images display a message “Image is Unavailable” when you attempt to view the image. The browse records are grouped by film number / digital film number (DGS). Each film is arranged by county, volume and date. Images will only be available for 84% of this collection when it is complete. Digital images and indexes will be added as they become available.

Alabama Wills

  • Alabama Wills
  • Alabama, Estate Files, 1830-1976
    Index and images of estate files created by the probate courts of various Alabama counties. Probates were generally recorded in the county of residence. This collection covers probate records created 1830-1976, but the content and time period of the records will vary by county. Files from Madison, Monroe and Talladega counties have not been indexed, but are arranged in alphabetical order by the deceased’s name. Additional records may be added to this collection. Check the wiki or browse the collection to determine current coverage.
  • Alabama, Probate Records, 1809-1985
    This collection includes digital images of various probate records created in the county courts in Alabama. It includes wills, administrations, guardianship’s, estate inventories, bonds and other records.
  • Alabama Slave Owners
    Many wills contained information about slaves.  Reading these wills may provide the reader with a clue on their ancestors.

Alabama Yearbooks

Alabama High School Yearbooks

Jefferson County

  • Bessemer Alabama
    • Bessemer Academy Yearbooks
      27 volumes of yearbooks from Bessemer Academy in Bessemer Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1972-2006, and are not all inclusive.
    • Bessemer High School Yearbooks
      12 volumes of yearbooks from Bessemer High School in Bessemer Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1925-1963, and are not all inclusive.
  • Birmingham Alabama
    • Altamont High School Yearbooks
    • Banks High School Yearbooks
      23 volumes of yearbooks from Banks High School in Birmingham Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1959-1989, and are not all inclusive.
    • Berry High School Yearbooks
      10 volumes of yearbooks from Berry High School in Birmingham Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1966-1986, and are not all inclusive.

Alabama Junior High School Yearbooks

Jefferson County

  • Birmingham Alabama

Alabama Private School Yearbooks

Yearbooks where the private school covers more years than a high school.

Jefferson County

What’s New in Alabama Genealogy?

Funeral Log Books

Alabama Funeral Home Records

This page links to known Alabama Funeral Records whether they be available online or offline. Funeral records are an invaluable source of genealogical information that can provide insight into the lives and deaths of our ancestors. They offer a wealth of details on the deceased and their family, including their names, ages, dates of death, causes of death, and other key information. While funeral records can be found in a variety of places, genealogists must be careful when interpreting the information they contain, paying close attention to accuracy and cultural context. By using funeral records in their research, genealogists can…
Civil War Cannon

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrants

This article helps you access the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrants for free. Following two simple steps, one to search, and the other to browse the actual microfilms, you can quickly find your ancestors Revolutionary War pension record, or Bounty-Land record and download the images. During 1800-1900 the United States issued more than 80,000 pensions and bounty-land-warrants to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, their spouse, or their children. Was your ancestor one of them?

Baylor & Shortridge Receipt Book, 1822-1835

These are written notations of court judgements from Baylor & Shortridge Attorneys and cover the years of 1822-1835. Baylor & Shortridge were attorneys in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Hiram Shortridge was born in Kentucky and moved to Tuscaloosa in 1822.Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1793, and arrived in Tuscaloosa in 1822. Together these two men created the firm of Baylor & Shortridge. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor was whom Baylor University was named after.

Winchester Star

Alabama Online Historical Newspapers

Historically, there have been over 2300 newspapers published in Alabama. This list represents those Alabama online historical newspapers which have been digitally copied. At present, there is limited free online access for digital newspapers which have been published in Alabama. Whether this is due from lack of available copies, or other reasons, is not known. Perhaps it reflects a lack of a central repository for historical Alabama newspapers? We can only hope that the amount available will continue to increase. You will find over 500 Alabama newspapers are online at Newspapers.com. They are linked below with a $ sign to…

1925 The Kalista, Bessemer High School Yearbook, Bessemer, Alabama

Bessemer High School Yearbooks

The Birmingham Public Library Digital Collection includes 12 volumes of yearbooks from Bessemer High School in Bessemer Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1925-1963, and are not all inclusive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 12 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or their individual pages downloaded from the following links for free! 1925 The Kallista1926 The Kallista1944 The Kallista1948 The Kallista1949 The Kallista1954 The Kallista1955 The Kallista1956 The Kallista1957 The Kallista1958 The Kallista1959 The Kallista1963 The Kallista 

1973 Reflections, Bessemer Academy, Bessemer, Alabama

Bessemer Academy Yearbooks, Bessemer, Alabama

The Birmingham Public Library Digital Collection includes 27 volumes of yearbooks from Bessemer Academy in Bessemer Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1972-2006, and are not all inclusive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 27 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or their individual pages downloaded from the following links for free! 1972 Rebels1973 Reflections1974 Reflections1975 Reflections1976 Reflections1980 Reflections1981 Reflections1982 Reflections1983 Reflections1985 Reflections1986 Reflections1988 Reflections1989 Reflections1990 Reflections1991 Reflections1995 Reflections1996 Reflections1997 Reflections1998 Reflections1999 Reflections2000 Reflections2001 Reflections2002 Reflections2003 Reflections2004 Reflections2005 Reflections2006 Reflections

1966 Caravel, Berry High School Yearbook, Birmingham, Alabama

Berry High School, Birmingham, Alabama Yearbooks

The Birmingham Public Library Digital Collection includes 10 volumes of yearbooks from Berry High School in Birmingham Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1966-1986, and are not all inclusive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 10 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or their individual pages downloaded from the following links for free! 1966 Caravel1967 Caravel1968 Caravel1969 Caravel1970 Caravel1971 Caravel1975 Caravel1976 Caravel1984 Caravel1986 Caravel

1959 Contrails, Banks High School Yearbook, Birmingham Alabama

Banks High School, Birmingham, Alabama Yearbooks

The Birmingham Public Library Digital Collection includes 23 volumes of yearbooks from Banks High School in Birmingham Alabama. These yearbooks cover the years of 1959-1989, and are not all inclusive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 29 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or their individual pages downloaded from the following links for free!
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United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955

3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of…
Winchester Star

Chronicling America Historical Newspapers

Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and…
1850 Madison County Alabama Mortality Schedule optimized

Alabama Mortality Census Records

The 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1885 censuses included inquiries about persons who had died in the twelve months immediately preceding the enumeration. The 1850, 1960, 1870, and 1880 mortality census for Alabama all survived. Mortality schedules list deaths from 1 June through 31 May of 1849–50, 1859–60, 1869–70, 1879–80, and 1884–85. They provide nationwide, state-by-state death registers that predate the recording of vital statistics in most states. While deaths are under-reported, the mortality schedules remain an invaluable source of information.
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Henry County Alabama Biographies

These 59 people who once resided in Henry County, Alabama, have had biographical details published online or in book form. Please click on their names to view the biographies available for each of them. Aycock, William B. Baker, Joseph Beach, Henry M. Bradley, William E. Capps, William Jefferson Crawford, A. C. Crawford, James R. Crawford, James W. Darby, John Isaac Dawsey, John F. Dawsey, Thomas J. Drewry, John W. Espy, John Jolly Espy, Joseph S. Espy, Thomas M. Forrester, B. A. Foster, John Webb Fowler, J. L., Dr. Gordon, Alexander C. Helton, James Herring, Bright W. Holley, Francis M. Irwin,…

World War 2 Casualties - Army, Airforce

Alabama World War 2 Casualties – Army, Air Force

This database contains War Department casualties (Army and Army Air Force personnel) from World War II for Alabama. Information provided includes serial number, rank and type of casualty. The birthplace or residence of the deceased is not indicated. An introduction explaining how the list was compiled, a statistical tabulation, and the descriptions of the types of casualties incurred are also included.
Land Ownership and Township Plat

Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898

These township plat maps began with the Public Lands Survey in the United States initiated by the Land Ordinance Act of 1785, and this collection includes maps for all or parts of Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. Maps were prepared from survey field notes taken by deputy surveyors and can include physical details and man-made improvements. They also indicate township and section lines, section numbers, acreage of holdings, and sometimes names of landholders.
Winchester Star

Small Town Newspapers

Small Town Papers gives you free access to the people, places and events recorded in real time over the decades or even centuries! Browse and search the scanned newspaper archive from 1846 up to the current edition! Their archives contain millions of names of ancestors not found anywhere else. Enhance your Ancestry research with their high resolution scanned newspaper archive. Find distant relatives and discover your ethnic heritage by reading the articles about family and friends written back in the day.
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The Clayhill Church Register 1887-1939

Clayhill Church is off County Road 5511 in Brundidge, Pike County, Alabama. These images are digital representations of their complete church register covering the years of 1887-1939. This is a valuable source of genealogical information for those who comprised the membership of this church. It’s also a great complement to any transcription of it’s cemetery as it may include information on the unreadable headstones, and those who have no headstones. Included within this register are birth, baptism, death, burial and membership information. Unfortunately there was no marriage information recorded.

A Description of the Towns on Coosau and Tallapoosa Rivers

Tal-e-see, from tal-o-fau, a town, and e-see, taken. Situated in the fork of Eu fau-le on the left bank of Tal-la-poo-sa, opposite Took-au-bat-che. Eu-fau-be has its source in the ridge dividing the waters of Chat-to-ho-che, from Tal-la-poo-sa, and runs nearly west to the junction with the river; there it is sixty feet wide. The land on it is poor for some miles up, then rich flats, bordered with pine land with reedy branches, a fine range for cattle and horses. The Indians have mostly left the town, and settled up the creek, or on its waters, for twenty miles. The…

Claybank Cemetery Dale County Alabama

Claybank Cemetery Ozark Alabama

Margaret Claybank Cemetery is located about two miles from Ozark, Alabama on Ozark – Daleville Highway. This cemetery enumeration was performed in 1948 by Eustus Hayes and as such will provide details on headstones which may no longer be present in the cemetery. Lizzie E. Dowling June 25, 1853 – Oct 31, 1938. Wife of N. B. Dowling. N. B. Dowling Aug 15, 1853 – Mar 28, 1938. Hus of Lizzie E. Dowling. Leila Belle Dowling May 26, 1876 – Jan 14, 1933. Dau of S. L. & Sarah Jane Dowling. Samuel L. Dowling Nov 3, 1841 – Jan 15,…

North America Indian Names of Places in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana

The Indians all over this continent had names, traditions, religions, ceremonies, feasts, prayers, songs, dances all, more or less, with symbolism and allegory, adapted to circumstances, just as all other races of mankind. But the world has become so familiar with the continued and ridiculous publications in regard to everything touching upon that race of people that a universal doubt has long since been created and established as to the possibility of refinement of thought and nobleness of action ever having existed among the North American Indian race, ancient or modern; and so little of truth has also been learned…

Mayhew, Brainard, Elliot, and Monroe Missions

From 1822, to the time they were dispossessed of every foot of their ancient domains, and driven away to a then wilderness, the schools increased in numbers, and the ordinances of religion were augmented, and a deeper interest manifested every where over their country never witnessed before; as they, previous to that time, had had intercourse with the debased of the White Race, by whom they had been taught in the school of vice, and nothing but vice: therefore the North American Indians have been accused, from first to last, of having no conception of an over-ruling providence the Creator…

Choctaw Traditions – The Council Fire, The Nahullo

The faces of the Choctaw and Chickasaw men of sixty years ago were as smooth as a woman’s, in fact they had no beard. Sometimes there might be seen a few tine hairs (if hairs they might be called) here and there upon the face, but they were few and far between, and extracted with a pair of small tweezers whenever discovered. Oft have I seen a Choctaw warrior standing before a mirror seeking with untiring perseverance and unwearied eyes, as he turned his face at different angles to the glass, if by chance a hair could be found lurking…

Choctaw Traditions

It is stated of the Papagoes, 1 that an ancient tradition of their tribe proclaims the coming of a Messiah by the name “Moctezuma.” They affirm that, in the ancient past, he lived in Casa Grande, the famous prehistoric temple on the Gila River; that his own people rebelled against him and threatened to kill him, and he fled to Mexico. But before leaving them he told them that they would experience great afflictions for many years, but eventually, at the time of their greatest need, he would return to them from the…

The Old Farm House: The Pioneer Home of a Choctaw Chief, Leflore, and of the Oak Hill School

Memoirs of the LeFlore Family

The Cravat families of Choctaws are the descendants of John Cravat, a Frenchman, who came among the Choctaws at an early day, and was adopted among them by marriage. He had two daughters by his Choctaw wife, Nancy and Rebecca, both of whom became the wives of Louis LeFlore. His Choctaw wife dying he married a Chickasaw woman, by whom he had four sons, Thomas, Jefferson, William and Charles, and one daughter, Elsie, who married- a white man by the name of Daniel Harris, and who became the parents of Col. J. D. Harris, whose first wife was Catharine Nail, the…


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  1. known as the short-haired Indians of the Southwest[]

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