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PATRON + MONDAY MUSINGS – Genealogy thoughts and brick wall tips

Some thoughts about family history research..... Photo of Genealogy Tree of Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland undocumented 1884 (Library of Congress) Can a first…

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PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Blankenship, Reuben born 1765 and Blankenship, Daniel born 1761 Revolutionary War Soldiers

This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK. Books…

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PATRON + Simpson manuscript – March 2nd, 1819, Congress passed an act admitting Alabama Territory into the Union of States.

Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…

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PATRON + First ribbon cane molasses, cherted road and cotton mill were started by these men in Greensboro, Alabama

Firsts in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama1 Ribbon Cane The first genuine ribbon (or sugar) cane ever successfully planted in Hale county was cultivated seven miles…

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PATRON + Native-Americans from Oklahoma visited Alabama on 1st Flag Day in World War Memorial Building

Completed in 1940 with Works ProgressAdministration Funds (WPA), Alabama's World War Memorial Building houses the Alabama Department of Archives and History today. The dedication…

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PATRON + One-room schoolhouses were popular in early Alabama as these photographs indicate

Education was important to early pioneers of Alabama. One-room schoolhouses, log houses in communities, private homes, schoolhouses on large plantations, private academies, and mission schools…

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PATRON – Citizens of Florence mentioned in the following stories From the Florence Times October 6, 1905 – Lauderdale County, Alabama

Transcribed stories From the Florence Times October 6, 1905 – Lauderdale County, Alabama NEW MANUFACTURE FOR FLORENCE Railway Supply and Manufacturing Company Organized The…

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PATRON + [film – photos] Did you know that men from the city of Bay Minette, Alabama stole the courthouse records from Daphne, Alabama

The city of Bay Minette is in Baldwin County, Alabama and it is the County seat. Located in the central part of the county,…