There is an unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama buried on Secession Hill. According to the South Carolina League of the South "The grave of…
Jefferson County was created by an act of the legislature December 13, 1819. The territory from which this county was formed was taken from…
By Jean Butterworth Attending a small Baptist church in the country when I was young was a very different experience than attending church today.…
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CORN BREAD By Inez McCollum Corn bread is older than our country. Native Americans were making corn bread when the settlers came to America. …
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First Capital of Colonial French Louisiana "On January 20, 1702, French colonists, led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, establish Fort Louis de la Mobile on a…
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Here is how our ancestors took care of some common problems they faced. Some are helpful today. Weighing cheese, Arthur Rothstein 1937 (Library of…
SEE ALL BOOKS BY DONNA R CAUSEY THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama…
My mother, Ellorine Cottingham Morgan, was President of our Cottingham Reunion many times during the 1990s. In this story she wrote for a reunion…
(The following story is the first section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of Mobile, Blakeley, St. Stephens, and Jackson,…
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Volume One - Book one of four After the Revolutionary War, free bounty land was offered by the federal government to citizens and soldiers…
When I began my my personal genealogy quest, I often spent days in courthouses, libraries, and cemeteries as well as considerable expense copying records…
Did you know that the Federal Census taken every ten years is part of our Constitution and essential for our democracy to continue? America's…
Tap here to see how to Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF JOEL MURPHREE OF TROY, ALABAMA 1864-1865 Introduction…
Daniel Milton James, son of William or Thomas James was born around 1760 in North Carolina. He married Rebecca Mossle (b 1770 NC – d.…
(This true story is hard to think about today, but it probably happened many times--particularly during epidemics.) Make sure she's dead by Peg Crum My…
Though it has not been completely proven, some researchers believe Kenneth Stewart who arrived in North Carolina from Scotland is the first immigrant to…
"My primary dislike is the wealth of MISINFORMATION generated by well-meaning people, MYSELF included, that somehow remains online even when there is irrefutable proof…
EASON FAMILY SAND MOUNTAIN by Dale Henson My great-grandmother, Celia Delwoth Eason (born 1848) moved to Sand Mountain, Alabama from Newton County, Georgia with…
See: Lt. David Moniac, a Creek Native American, was the first minority graduate of West Point DAVID TATE TO CADET DAVID MONIAC LETTER OF 1822* April…
This Patron+ story is also in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants - A Collection of Lost and Forgotten Stories First Territorial Governor Lived In…
Many of Andrew Jackson's men settled in Alabama (written in 1910) Of the men with (Andrew) Jackson, mustered out just after this affair, (the…
Read about more events that happened on this date in ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume 1 at Amazon.com The first edition of the Birmingham Iron…
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