The brother of a girl who made a living by selling eggs thus pays loving tribute to her memory and advertises his own business:…
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Transcribed From Our Mountain Home (Talladega, Alabama) March 21, 1900 Lots of women save all their classic music for other…
DEDICATION OF THE JOHN T. MILNER BRIDGE December 12, 1929 Address by General R. E. Steiner As a boy, I lived in Greenville, Alabama,…
A second part of the transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899. EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA…
REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi Foreword (This transcribed excerpt was written before 1958) Nestled among the rolling…
Some fun thoughts about genealogy and history. I like the first and last one best. The one who dies with the most ancestors wins!…
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ORANGE VALE OLD HOMES OF TALLADEGA COUNTY1 (KINGSTON, MT. IDA, SELWOOD, THORNHILL, ALPINE) BY MARY WELCH LEE (MRS. SCEARS LEE) A few miles on…
Sometimes, incidents like the following story are why we have difficulty tracing certain family members in our ancestry. This transcribed newspaper extract was published…
A. B. DAWSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1800-aft. 1840) Georgia, Coosa County, Alabama (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George Evans…
View Post AN EXCERPT FROM EARLY HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY ALABAMA (Covering the period from 1821 to 1900) 1 By MRS. MARGARET PACE FARMER2…
Warning: This excerpt includes some vocabulary and harsh words that would not be used today. Please remember the times in which it was written.…
WATERWORKS OF GREENSBORO, HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA1 (Published in 1908) It is a far cry from “the old oaken bucket that hung in the well”…
FEATURED BOOK - Searching for Nannie B: Connecting Three Generations of Southern Women by Nancy Owen Nelson How would you be affected if your…
EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL OF MRS. GOVERNOR JOHN GAYLE 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama's seventh Governor, left a journal which her descendants…
Transcribed from July 22, 1921, The Ashland Progress
(Includes many early residents of Coffee County, Alabama) Residents of Coffee County, Alabama have a 'can-do' spirit. Though frequented by fires and floods,…
Too Many McKnights (submitted by Joe McKnight) My Paternal grandfather, William Charles McKnight, was born in Calhoun County, GA. in 1864 and migrated to…
(The following has been transcribed from Chapter Two of Jefferson County and Birmingham History 1887 by Teeple & Smith Publishers) JEFFERSON COUNTY AS IT WAS…
Elyton in Jefferson County, Alabama was the location of many early settlers of Jefferson County. This story reveals some of the earliest residents. (Please note…
Journalistic Warfare: The Atlanta Constitution, the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Rube Burrow Interview by William Warren Rogers, Jr A sensational headline, "Rube Talks Constitution…
ARRESTED A Probate Judge Arrested Under Requisition from the Governor of Texas, Charged with Stealing a Horse1 (From the Troy Enquirer 1880) Yesterday Mr.…
John Washington Mackey was an early pioneer of Perry County, Alabama is believed to have been the son of John G. and Mary Mackey…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I DAVID JOHNSON GOODLETT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1804-1878) Lawrence County,…
I started something new specifically for those interested in family research and genealogy in Alabama. Collected genealogy information As I conducted research for interesting…
PATRON + Thanks to the untiring efforts of these men the telegraph and telephone finally came to Greensboro, Alabama Communication with the outside world…
These epitaphs for wives reveal the state of the marriage Here lies the body of James Robinson and Ruth, his wife; Their warfare is accomplished.…
Limestone County, Alabama land was claimed by both the Chickasaws and Cherokees EARLY LIMESTONE COUNTY, ALABAMA The territory embraced in Limestone County was at…
Surprise! Genealogy research doesn't always turn up heroes and royalty. Sometimes you may find a criminal or horse thief and it may be hard…
