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…
PATRON – October 1915 news in Grand Bay of a stranger's death, severe insect bites, a family devastated by fever, and more. . .…
POISONED BY ICE CREAM (Transcribed from the Times Daily, July 11, 1890, Florence, Alabama) The following persons who reside in East Florence were made…
PATRON - Did you know that the Daughters of the American Revolution in Alabama established a school in 1924 in Grant, Alabama that still…
MONTEVALLO Transcribed from The Shelby Guide, Columbiana, Alabama May 4, 1868 We paid a visit to this flourishing town last Saturday. It is situated…
PATRON - Amazing! 1887 descriptions of early residents of Jefferson County, Alabama The following excerpt describing early residents of Jefferson County, Alabama is from…
Lumber for the White House in St. Stephens was acquired with a whipsaw. This excerpt was transcribed from Clarke County, Alabama, and Its Surroundings,…
(Transcribed from The Guntersville Advertiser, Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914) GUNTERSVILLE LOCAL ITEMS Guntersville will have a big celebration on the 4th of July.…
Imagine how much simpler it will be for our descendants to track our lives? We have birth and death certificates, social security numbers, and…
Here is the story from the June 27, 1891 Times Daily newspaper in Florence, Alabama. STARTLING CHANGE Alabama Takes the First Place long held…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII JOSEPH MASON KENNEDY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1853-aft. 1910)…
Early CRENSHAW COUNTY ALABAMA Crenshaw County was created by the legislature, November 24, 1866 out of Butler, Coffee, Covington, Pike and Lowndes Counties. It…
Lachlan McGillivray, a youth of sixteen summers, lured by reports of Indian adventures and wonderful scenery in the New World, ran away from his…
THE STATE BANK The rapid influx of population into the new State of Alabama increased the demand for articles manufactured at a distance, and…
Visitors, politics and a rape are included in these news extracts from June 2, 1876, in Blount County, Alabama (Transcribed extracts from The Bangor…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) PART V THE END OF THE WAR Of course,…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) ABSALOM PRATT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1793-1845) Bibb County,…
It is hard to imagine now, but in 1937 Alabamians feared death from malaria during the summer. Transcribed From the Tuscaloosa News June 22, 1937…
A number of National Register of Historic Places listed plantations are located a few miles from Faunsdale in Marengo County, Alabama. Faunsdale Plantation Faunsdale Plantation…
MOBILE THE EMPORIUM OF ALABAMA1 (Excerpt written in 1901) Mobile County was formed out of Washington County in 1813 by proclamation of David Holmes,…
The people of Gordo were shocked when their new water tank containing 68,000-gallons crashed to the earth on April 23rd, 1935 as the following…
(From The Evening Post, New York, New York, August 21, 1817) Much valuable information to emigrants and others, is contained in the following letter…
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…
Interesting news article from the Daily State Sentinel (Montgomery, Alabama) April 13, 1868 The oldest woman in Alabama is Mrs. Sallie Samson, living in…
(From The Evening Post New York, New York August 21, 1817) Much valuable information to emigrants and others, is contained in the following letter…
The following are actual copies of correspondence received by the Family History Department. I have a hard time finding myself in London. If I were…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935 Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 By…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) (Note: There has been some confusion as to…
Photograph of Gordon's School in 1897 - "Eight teachers employed. Average attendance of pupils - 400." Names of school children in Gordon School that…
Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. The…
