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PATRON + Family Legends and Stories Debunked!

Everyone has them. Family legends in genealogy abound and often become more embellished with each generation. Many times, after diligent research you may find…

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PATRON – Vintage 1939 photographs of the progress in education and schools at Gee’s Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama

During 1937, the  Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt's New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the…

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Anne Newport Royall – the tornado of 1822, cure snake bite, politics & the day all the citizens of Huntsville fled town

Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was by some accounts the first professional woman journalist in the United States. When her…

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PATRON + The Alabama Territorial Government met- first Acts passed included a divorce

The transcribed Acts below, which include an Act for a divorce,  were passed when the Government first met on the 3rd and 4th of February, 1818. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, FIRST GENERAL…

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PATRON + Great Depression experiment – Skyline Farms – [vintage photographs] Part 3 – The men had to build their own homes

Skyline Farms, a resettlement community in 1935, to provide help to farmers in the Great Depression was built by the resettled farmers in Jackson…