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Alabama Genealogy Databases – Subscription May be Required
Statewide Genealogy
- Alabama, Confederate Pension and Service Records, 1862-1947
- Alabama, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908
- Alabama State Census, 1820-1866
- Alabama, Convict Records, 1886-1952
- Alabama Death Record of State Convicts, 1843-1951
- Alabama History, 1540-1872
- Alabama Soldiers in the Korean War, 1950-1952
- Alabama, Surname Files, 1901–2005
- Alabama Census, 1810-90
- Alabama Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1865
- Alabama, Questionnaires of Widows of Confederate Soldiers, 1927
- Alabama Deaths, 1908-59
- Alabama Divorce Index, 1950-1959
- Alabama Marriages, 1809-1920 (Selected Counties)
- Alabama, Marriage Collection, 1800-1969
- Alabama, Military Card Files,1917-1918
- Alabama, National Guard Index Cards, 1897-1924
- Alabama, Marriages, Deaths, Wills, Court, and Other Records, 1784-1920
- Alabama Revolutionary War Soldiers
- Alabama, Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921
- Alabama, WWII Military Dead and Wounded, 1944-1946
- Alabama Marriages to 1825
- Alabama Notes, Volumes 3 and 4
- Alabama Census Returns, 1820
- Alabama Notes, Vol. I
- Alabama Notes, Vol. II
- Alabama Notes, Vol. III
- Alabama Notes, Vol. IV
- History of Alabama : and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period
- The Coosa River Valley : from De Soto to hydroelectric power
- Woodward’s reminiscences of the Creek, or Muscogee Indians, contained in letters to friends in Georgia and Alabama
- Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870
- Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama
- Early Settlers of Alabama, Part I
- Early Settlers of Alabama, Part II
- Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
- Alabama newspapers and periodicals
- Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872
- A blockaded family
- Brief historical sketches of military organizations raised in Alabama during the Civil War
- Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
- Early settlers of Alabama
- Hand-book of Alabama : a complete index to the state, with map
- A history of the Sixtieth Alabama Regiment
- Makers and romance of Alabama history : embracing sketches of the men who have been largely instrumental in shaping the policie
- Membership roster, September, 1956
- Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account of the state’s political, military, professional and industrial progress, toget
- Notable men of Alabama : personal and genealogical, with portraits
- Reminiscences of public men in Alabama : for thirty years : with an appendix
- Revolutionary soldiers in Alabama : being a list of names, compiled from authentic sources, of soldiers of the American Revolut
- Alabama source book
- Alabama cemetery records
- Alabama census returns, 1820
- Alabama notes
- The Alabama Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
- Gleanings from Alabama newspaper files
- A history of Alabama : for use in schools : based as to its earlier parts on the work of Albert J. Pickett
- A history of Lumsden’s Battery, C.S.A.
- A history of Methodism in Alabama
- Index for compiled service records, Alabama units, Florida war
- Inventory of the church archives of Alabama.
- Memorial of the inhabitants in the Cherokee country : (State Department records, endorsed August, 1819).
- Red Eagle and the wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama
- The sesquicentennial of statehood, Alabama : an exhibition in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., December 14, 1969 to A
- Guide to public vital statistics in Alabama
- Inhabitants of Alabama in 1816
- Northern Alabama : historical and biographical.
- History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Alabama : 1763-1891
- A blockaded family : life in southern Alabama during the Civil War
- Web: Alabama Coal Mine Fatalities 1898-1938
- Web: Alabama, Find A Grave Index, 1750-2012
- Aunt Sally, or, The cross the way to freedom : a narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams
Alabama County Specific Genealogy at Ancestry
- Autauga County, Alabama 1850 census
- Baldwin County, Alabama, 1860 federal census and schedule of deaths
- A brief history of Baldwin County
- Population index to the 1855 Baldwin County census
- Backtracking in Barbour County : a narrative of the last Alabama frontier
- History of Barbour County, Alabama
- History of Eufaula, Alabama
- Barbour County, Alabama tombstone inscriptions
- Index of Book A, Minutes of Probate Court, Bibb County, Alabama
- Census of 1830 and 1840 of Blount County, Alabama
- Cemetery records, Blount County, Alabama
- Bullock Co., AL, Old Confederate Cemetery
- History of Bullock County
- The history of Butler County, Alabama : from 1815 to 1885 : with sketches of some of her most distinguished citizens and glance
- 1860 census, Butler Co., Alabama
- Butler County, Alabama History, 1815-1885
- Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama)
- Polk’s Anniston (Alabama) city directory, 1931
- Reminiscenses [sic] of the early days in Chambers County
- Surname index of 1840 Census, Cherokee County, Alabama
- Chilton County and her people
- Cemetery records of Choctaw County, Alabama
- Alokoli: (a Choctaw Indian word meaning “a cluster or collection”) : the Choctaw County bicentennial book
- A glance into the great South-east, or, Clarke County, Alabama and its surroundings : from 1540 to 1877
- History of Clarke County
- Clarke County, Alabama marriage records
- Clarke County, Alabama and Its Surroundings, 1540-1877
- Piney Wood echoes
- Index to tomb inscriptions, Coffee County, Alabama
- My Colbert County families : Lanes, Prides, Goodloes, Rutlands, & Bartons
- The facts about Muscle Shoals
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Colbert County
- Two hundred years at Muscle Shoals : being an authentic history of Colbert County, 1700-1900 : with special emphasis on the sti
- History of Conecuh County, Alabama : embracing a detailed record of events from the earliest period to the present : biographic
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Conecuh County
- The Evergreen Old Historical Cemetery in Evergreen, Alabama, Conecuh County
- Conecuh County, Alabama History
- Early records of Coosa County, Alabama, 1832-1860
- Covington Co., AL, Bushfield Cemetery
- An early history of Crenshaw County
- The Cullman Banner (Cullman, Alabama)
- The Cullman Democrat (Cullman, Alabama)
- The Southern Immigrant (Cullman, Alabama)
- Cemetery records of Dale County, Alabama
- Inscriptions from the cemeteries of Dale County, Alabama
- Miscellaneous records, Dale County, Alabama
- History of the First United Methodist Church of Ozark, Alabama
- The first hundred years : a history of the Selma Baptist Church of Christ, commonly known as the First Baptist Church of Selma
- Memories of old Cahaba
- DeKalb County, Alabama Marriage Index, 1836-1916
- Cemetery records of DeKalb County, Alabama
- A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-
- A history of Tallassee for Tallasseeans
- Etowah County, Alabama cemetery records
- Cemetery survey, Etowah County, Alabama
- Interstate Directory Company’s Gadsden, Alabama city directory, 1931
- A history of Hokes Bluff, Alabama
- Cemetery records, Fayette County, Alabama : and neighboring counties
- Palmetto country
- 1963 reprint of Snedecor’s 1855-1856 directory of Greene County, Alabama
- History of Greensboro, Alabama : from its earliest settlement
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Hale County
- Indiana Progress (Abbeville, Alabama)
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, Alabama)
- History of Jackson County
- Church of the Advent : its history and traditions
- Early days in Birmingham : a printing of the original papers of the Pioneers Club, whose members were eye-witnesses to the even
- Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama : historical and biographical, 1887.
- Ruhama : the story of a church, 1819-1945
- The book of Birmingham
- Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama: History and Biography, 1887
- Web: Birmingham, Alabama, Obituary Index, 1930-1996
- Birmingham, Alabama Directories, 1888-90
- Cemetery records of Jefferson and Walker Counties, Alabama
- The kidnapped and the ransomed : being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife “Vina,” after forty years of slav
- 1820 state census of Lawrence County, Alabama
- The Alabama Courier (Athens, Alabama)
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Lowndes County
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Marengo County
- Alabama and Mississippi Connections
- Spanish and British Land Grants in Mississippi Territory, 1750-1784
- Early Settlers of Alabama
- Mobile, Alabama City Directories, 1890-92
- Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1813-1855
- Bi-centennial celebration, May 26-28, 1911, of the founding of Mobile by Jean Baptiste de Bienville, 1711
- Colonial Mobile : an historical study, largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin and the old South West fro
- The founding of Mobile, 1702-1718 : studies in the history of the first capital of the province of Louisiana, with map showing
- Ghosts of old Mobile
- Mobile : fact and tradition, noteworthy people and events
- Mobile of the five flags : the story of the river basin and coast about Mobile from the earliest times to the present
- Remember Mobile
- Highlights of 75 years in Mobile
- Montgomery, Alabama Directories, 1880-95
- City directory and history of Montgomery, Alabama
- Recollections of the early settlers of Montgomery County, Alabama
- Annals of northwest Alabama : including a reprint of Nelson F. Smith’s History of Pickens County, Ala. (1856)
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Talladega County
- The Scenic resources of the Tennessee Valley : a descriptive and pictorial inventory
- U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
- History of Walker County : its towns and its people
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Wilcox County
- Inventory of the county archives of Alabama: Winston County