THINGS I LEARNED WITH AGE Girl eating ice cream ca. 1920s (Library of Congress) The older I get, the fewer things seem worth waiting…
This biography is included in the Books Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II and First Families of Lawrence County, Alabama. PETER W.…
Concord Baptist Church, Choctaw County, Alabama (Transcription Written by Mr. S. W. Wilson, of Butler, Alabama 1946) The following is a copy of the…
( News Transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) Brooks Lawrence delivered a sermon to a large audience at the…
This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) The power of the Creek Nation was crushed at the Battle of Horseshoe…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) On the road leading from St. Stephens in Washington County, Alabama, lived the renowned Choctaw Chief Pushmataha.…
THE BOWIE LETTERS, 1819 and 1821 Edited by Virginia K. Jones Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960…
(Transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Peacock and sons Clarence and Henry of River…
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II. JOHN A. GOODSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY ( b.…
Yankee holiday Thanksgiving was not observed as a holiday in Alabama until 1858 when the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and North and South…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
ORIGINAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY MARRIAGE LICENSES (The County seat of Montgomery County as of these dates, was located at Fort Jackson, in the…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
The Iron Age was a Birmingham newspaper owned and edited by W. C. Garrett and Frank V. Evans in the early days of Birmingham.…
During the Great Depression in America, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight…
Patron member story This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume I: News of people and events transcribed…
On Thomas Woodcock: Here lie the remains of Thomas Woodhen, The most amiable of husbands and excellent of men, N. B. His real name…
JAMES B. SIMPSON Biography and Genealogy (Nov. 23, 1857 - Jan. 1898) Greenville and Montgomery County, Alabama James B. Simpson or "Jim Simpson," as…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I ISAAC NEWTON LANGSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1775 d. aft.…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII THOMAS HAYNES BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. ca. 1770)…
This story is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Many people are surprised to discover that they have…
Our traditional Thanksgiving Day was started in 1621 when Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast. However, Native American groups throughout…
Yellow fever epidemics were particularly difficult in Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama during 1853 and 1870s. Recently, a mass burial site was uncovered in Montgomery,…
THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA 1908 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS Find your southeast Alabama ancestor in this great KINDLE Book. Immediate download! Dothan was a…
Robertson & Phillips My ancestors on one side of the family are Robertsons. I have traced them back to the 1200’s in Scotland. On…
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