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This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume II- Scroll to bottom to see Table of Contents of…
Most Essential Part of Keeping House in Summer Miniature Iceless Refrigerator is Made by Inverting an Unglazed Earthenware Flowerpot in a Dish or Pan…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) GOLD MINES OF ALABAMA (From the Tuscaloosa Monitor ca. 1855)…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXIX The location of the buildings used by the Confederate States during the…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV- Scroll to see Table of Contents of this book…
FUNNY FRIDAY A MUSICAL BED (From Abbeville Advertiser, Abbeville, Alabama, March 17, 1859) The last novelty from Germany is a musical bed, which receives…
MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part IV By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April, 1897, and were…
(Transcribed from Union Springs Herald, Union Springs, Alabama October 7, 1885) According to Wikipedia, “Midway is a town located in eastern Bullock County, Alabama,…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume X Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
We take colors in our clothes for granted today but our ancestors had to dye their clothes for colors. It was a rather lengthy…
Rotten Potatoes by Johnny Ponder My Momma said that she spent her entire childhood eating rotten potatoes. I’m not kidding. In East Texas everybody…
(Transcribed from Union Springs Herald, Union Springs, Alabama October 7, 1885) OLD TIMES Reminiscences of Union Springs SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE AMONG THE FOUNDERS…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V JAMES P. STILES BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1860- d.…
APPLE CUSTARD RECIPE FROM 1890s Pare, core & quarter a dozen large juicy pippins. Stew among them the yellow peel of a large lemon…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVII The winter months of 1863 were not passed before the South began…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume II- Scroll to bottom to see Table of Contents of…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer GOVERNOR CHARLES HENDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1860-1937) Pike County, Alabama Charles Henderson…
Two misers were forever immortalized on their tombstones The wretched man who moulders here Cared not for soul or body lost, — But only…
MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part III By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April, 1897, and were…
The following article is an excerpt from The Birmingham News May 18, 1924, written by Frank Willis Barnett a staff Correspondent to The Birmingham…
Benton County, Alabama is no longer in existence. These are records from 1855! (continued below) (Excerpts transcribed from THE AMERICAN EAGLE, Jacksonville, Alabama, Nov.…
MURPHY'S LAWS OF FAMILY RESEARCH Your great-grandfather's obituary states that he died, leaving no issue of record The town clerk you wrote to in…
We need a good life and this one from 1920 should do it! (Excerpt from The Starkville News, Starkville, Mississippi – April 16, 1920)…
MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part II By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April, 1897, and were made…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
In history books, John Hunt has been credited with being the first white settler of Huntsville, but there was another white settler in the…
The new bustling business district of the city of Birmingham, Alabama was almost destroyed by fire in 1905- Here are some actual news accounts…
Did you know.....????? April 23, 1957 - "An earthquake with its epicenter near Guntersville affected parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, but caused little…
Washing clothes was a major task in the past and there were techniques to getting the clothes really clean as can be seen by…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
