Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 Society Notes, Clubs Personal Mrs. Roy McCord is resting nicely following a…
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF FATHER RYAN1 By Kate Coles Donegan (Taken from an undated collection of papers and essays in the collections of Virginia Clay…
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.…
ROBERT BENJAMIN BURNS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1864-aft. 1904) St. Clair, Benton and Talladega County, Alabama Robert Benjamin Burns, was a merchant of Lincoln, Alabama,…
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…
(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,…
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…
SOUTHERN BATTER BREAD Scald 1 quart of milk in double boiler and stir in 1 quart of water-ground corn meal, a little at a…
Many deaths occurred in the State of Alabama in the year 1926 from the Spanish flu epidemic when the Alabama Freemasons were flourishing. This…
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War Between…
(Excerpt transcribed from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume I., published 1921) Early COVINGTON COUNTY, ALABAMA Covington County was created by…
Extreme sports are not new. There were many stuntmen, often called 'death dodgers' that put on shows at state fairs throughout the country in the…
WILLIAM VAUGHAN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1861-aft. 1921) Limestone, Madison and Jefferson County, Alabama William Vaughan, attorney-at-law, Birmingham, Alabama was born in Limestone county, Alabama,…
Old Cough Remedies (Submitted by Amanda Gallatin) In the 19th century, common homeopathic cough remedies were mixtures of sugar and aromatics (like lemon or…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume V- Scroll to bottom to see Table of Contents of…
These news abstracts and more are also available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume V - NAMES FROM MARRIAGE LICENSES AND SOME NAMES…
HONEYBEES AND BEE-KEEPING IN ALABAMA (Transcribed from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume 1 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen 1921) Bee-keeping is…
CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY Episcopal, Huntsville, Ala (A reprint from the program issued by the Church on its Centennial Anniversary, 1843-1943.) The first officially…
Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was by some accounts the first professional woman journalist in the United States. When her…
