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When I began my my personal genealogy quest, I often spent days in courthouses, libraries, and cemeteries as well as considerable expense copying records…
Volume One - Book one of four After the Revolutionary War, free bounty land was offered by the federal government to citizens and soldiers…
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Tap here to see how to Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF JOEL MURPHREE OF TROY, ALABAMA 1864-1865 Introduction…
Daniel Milton James, son of William or Thomas James was born around 1760 in North Carolina. He married Rebecca Mossle (b 1770 NC – d.…
(This true story is hard to think about today, but it probably happened many times--particularly during epidemics.) Make sure she's dead by Peg Crum My…
Though it has not been completely proven, some researchers believe Kenneth Stewart who arrived in North Carolina from Scotland is the first immigrant to…
"My primary dislike is the wealth of MISINFORMATION generated by well-meaning people, MYSELF included, that somehow remains online even when there is irrefutable proof…
EASON FAMILY SAND MOUNTAIN by Dale Henson My great-grandmother, Celia Delwoth Eason (born 1848) moved to Sand Mountain, Alabama from Newton County, Georgia with…
See: Lt. David Moniac, a Creek Native American, was the first minority graduate of West Point DAVID TATE TO CADET DAVID MONIAC LETTER OF 1822* April…
This Patron+ story is also in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants - A Collection of Lost and Forgotten Stories First Territorial Governor Lived In…
Many of Andrew Jackson's men settled in Alabama (written in 1910) Of the men with (Andrew) Jackson, mustered out just after this affair, (the…
Read about more events that happened on this date in ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume 1 at Amazon.com The first edition of the Birmingham Iron…
On August 11, 1939, the city of Birmingham, Alabama baseball fans were excited about the purchase of the Birmingham Barons by the Cincinnati Reds'…
Stories and ghostly tales from the 1930s of how Shades Valley in Jefferson County, Alabama was named (WPA Alabama Writer's Project) There are at…
Alabama Marriage Notices from the 1852 South Western Baptist Newspaper 2-4-1852 Married on the 14th inst., by the REV. A. VANHOOSE of Aberdeen, Mississippi,…
In 1860, parents were given these instructions for Parents sending their sons to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. PAGE 1 Unlock thousands…
Ghost stories or a part of Alabama's past. Below are three unedited stories from 1939 written by a WPA writer who interviewed three African-Americans…
In 1883, there was an attempt to burn the Woodstock Hotel in Anniston, Alabama in 1883 (Transcribed from Anniston Hot Blast, Anniston, Alabama, October…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) continued below Three countries, England,…
Lafayette did not dance on his visit to Cahaba, Alabama Lafayette in Cahaba, Alabama by Jack Kytle (WPA Alabama Federal Writer's Project) Written in…
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(Transcribed from The Shelby Guide, Columbiana, Alabama January 11, 1870) CALERA CORRESPONDENCE CALERA, ALABAMA, JAN. 10, 1870 ED. GUIDE: As Calera is in the…
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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SAMUEL FORWOOD PART II HARFORD DEMOCRAT BEL AIR, MARYLAND. Friday Morning, May 11th , 1888. A native of Harford County,…
Are you researching ancestors in Lawrence County, Alabama? This may help. Lawrence County was created by act of the Territorial Legislature of February 4,…
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This is an excerpt from the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records FREDERICK MONROE…
This story is an excerpt from A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES & GENEALOGIES VOLUME I ARCHIMEDES M. MAHAN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY…
