Our traditional Thanksgiving Day was started in 1621 when Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast. However, Native American groups throughout…
Yellow fever epidemics were particularly difficult in Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama during 1853 and 1870s. Recently, a mass burial site was uncovered in Montgomery,…
THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA 1908 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS Find your southeast Alabama ancestor in this great KINDLE Book. Immediate download! Dothan was a…
The following is an abridged excerpt from an article that was originally published in a New York newspaper and republished in the Jacksonville Republican…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I OBEDIAH LANGSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1801 d. aft.…
SAMUEL NOBLE A Sketch by His Daughter, Mrs. Kate Q. Roberts1 Samuel Noble, pioneer of the iron industry in the South and prophet of…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK! DR.…
On November 22, 1989, Kathryn Thornton, a native of Montgomery and graduate of Auburn University, became the first woman to fly on a military…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Andrew Jackson is often credited with the enforcement of the Native-Americans removal from…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VII- Scroll to the bottom to see Table of…
The Five Cent Store by Inez McCollum I'm not sure whether I was fourteen or fifteen when I started working on Saturday's at the…
Store closings and social distancing were practiced in October 1918 to help eradicate the Spanish flu which became an epidemic. (Transcribed from The Montgomery…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I DORANTON PATTON NEWTON LANGSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1812 –…
This biography can be found in Alabama Descendants of ELISHA COTTINGHAM (ca. 1755-ca. 1820 and Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1)…
Recently, there has been talk of restoring and reopening Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama as a mental health facility in Mobile County. Searcy…
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War Between…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXX The religious and social life of the people in 1866 began to…
LIFE IN COAL MINES Tedious Work Combined With Constant Danger Explosions and Falling Walls are Sources of Terror to Miners and Their Families -…
Read this Patron member article and more abstracts in the eBook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume IV: MONROE COUNTY, ALABAMA MARRIAGES Monroe County, Alabama Click…
This is an excerpt from the book Vinegar of the Four Thieves Our ancestors wanted to be beautiful so they often came up with…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I and more genealogy information can be found in the book Alabama…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK. Books…
ELLICOTT'S STONE There is a historical marker East of Hwy 43 and south of Bucks, Alabama in Mobile County that is the "oldest historical…
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER XIV Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
(Excerpts transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) TWO ESCAPE FROM JAIL Prisoners Take Door From Hinges and Walk Out…
Some Genealogy Humor I'd rather be looking for dead people than have them looking for me! I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK. Books…
I don't remember feasting at Thanksgiving by Sharon Dean Agte I don't remember feasting at Thanksgiving. It was a staid, quiet dinner. We would…
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