PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF FATHER RYAN1 By Kate Coles Donegan (Taken from an undated collection of papers and essays in the collections of Virginia Clay…
{Can you imagine being forced to serve in the militia until the age of 50?} THE MILITARY FORCES OF ALABAMA by THOMAS M. OWEN,…
The Strange Bedfellow by Shannon Hollon My great grandfather Robert Bearden(pawpaw) (1898-1984) was a true outdoorsman cut from the same cloth as Davy Crockett.…
Where are you celebrating New Years Eve? As the sun sets on 2016, people from all over World gather to see ball drops and…
This article and more abstracts are also available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of…
Jackson's Oak is located in Historic Village Point Preserve in Daphne, Baldwin County, Alabama. This giant tree, which is 95 feet tall, with a…
MARRIAGES from 1800s See marriages below Marengo County, Alabama This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume…
On this day, December 30th, in 1868, the county of Baker was created from portions of Autauga, Shelby, Bibb, and Perry, by a legislative…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) First news reports indicated that the move to Indian Territory was going well from the following letter…
HON. A. H. CURTIS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1829 – aft. 1896) Perry County, Alabama Hon. A. H. Curtis, of Marion, Ala., was born in Raleigh,…
I don't know what I'd do without my coffee each morning. It is simple to make today, but in 1852 making a good cup…
CHAPTER TWELVE by By HON. E. A. POWELL (transcribed from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, 1886) WHAT…
[These photographs of Birmingham, Alabama were taken in 1936.] Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. Most of the original settlers were of English…
(Excerpts from HISTORY OF ROANOKE1The Roanoke Leader, Roanoke, Alabama November 1956 - 1957, presented as a Public Service, THE COMMERCIAL BANK) Roanoke, Alabama was…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) THE STATE OF ALABAMA – PERRY COUNTY Probate Court Regular Term, Dec.…
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Marriage & Death Notices in the October – December 1878 Shelby Guide This was published in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL Fall 1985 It has been…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume X Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 ALABAMA NOTES Made in 1883-1884 (During 1883 and 1884, Dr. Palmer,…
There are many historic houses and buildings in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama. Camden is an incorporated town and county seat of Wilcox County, situated…
(Note*this article, written in 1900's was transcribed verbatim in order to provide accurate information) FREEDMEN'S BUREAU IN ALABAMA The Freedmen's Bureau was a bureau in…
ALABAMA DEATHS FROM WW I is an essential book for research in Alabama around the turn of the century. Makes a great gift! This…
There was a split in the Baptist Church of Alabama in the early days - this is why EARLY BAPTIST HISTORY of ALABAMAi Baptists…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) After Colonel Crowell was cleared, General Gaines continued to visit and negotiate with…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver Chapter 2 Much history is entombed in court house records. After these official legal…
The abstracts and more can be found in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV Alabama Marriage Notices from the 1852 South Western Baptist Newspaper …
Do you have the Abney surname in your Alabama ancestry? Don't waste precious time and money completing genealogy research others have done! Take advantage…
In my personal genealogy research, I often spent days in courthouses, libraries and cemeteries, as well as considerable expense copying records only to discover…
These news abstracts and more are also available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume V GENEALOGY QUERIES published in 1940 Below are…
UNIVERSITY CADET CORPS (transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 05, No. 01, Spring Issue 1943) (In June, 1903, correspondence was conducted between Mr.…
