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Alabama is a state
located in the southeastern region of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee
to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida
and the Gulf of Mexico to the south,
and Mississippi
to the west. The state of Alabama was named after the river. The Alabama
River was named by early European explorers after the Indian tribe that lived
in the territory and first appeared in 1540 spelled as "Alibamu",
"Alibamo" and even "Limamu" in the journals of the
Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto (c.1500-1542). Alabama's history as a state began in
1819 when delegates gathered in a cabinetmaker's shop in Huntsville to write
the Alabama Constitution. In 1819 construction began on what was later to be
known as Fort Morgan at Mobile Point. On December 14, 1819 Alabama entered
the union as the 22nd state. In 1846 the state capital was moved to
Montgomery. Alabama was established on 14 December 1819, and the official
state website is located at http://www.alabama.gov/. County records vary widely from county to county in both
quality and quantity. Some have been carefully preserved while others have
been much abused and neglected. Some records have simply disappeared. Other
scattered records are now preserved by the Alabama Department of Archives and
History, the University of Alabama Library, and the Samford University
Library. |
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Alabama
Department of Archives & History -
624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130-0100; Phone: (334) 242-4435 ·
Alabama Historical Commission - 468 South Perry Street, PO Box 300900, Montgomery, AL
36130-0900 ·
Alabama Department of Public Health, Center for
Health Statistics
- RSA Tower, 201 Monroe St. Suite 1150, Montgomery, AL 36104; (334)206-5418 ·
Alabama Department of Human Resources, Family and Children's Services Division - 50 N. Ripley St., Montgomery, AL 36130; (334) 242-9500 ·
Alabama Indian Affairs Commission - 669 S. Lawrence St.,
Montgomery, AL 36130; (334) 242-2831 |
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Autauga
Baldwin
Barbour
Bibb
Blount
Bullock
Butler
Calhoun
Chambers
Cherokee
Chilton
Choctaw
Clarke
Clay
Cleburne
Coffee
Colbert
Conecuh
Coosa
Covington
Crenshaw
Cullman
Dale
Dallas
De Kalb
Elmore
Escambia
Etowah
Fayette
Franklin
Greene
Hale
Henry
Houston
Jackson
Jefferson
Lamar
Lauderdale
Lawrence
Lee
Limestone
Lowndes
Macon
Madison
Marengo
Marion
Marshall
Mobile
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Perry
Pickens
Pike
Randolph
Russell
Shelby
St. Clair
Sumter
Talladega
Tallapoosa
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Washington
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following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
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Bennett; Bishop; Bobo; Dickson; Harris; Henderson; Long; Mayfield; McVicker; Yarborough |
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To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
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that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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Our Ancestral Counties
The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a
specific ancestral county, go to our Ancestral
Locations home page. Here you will find
additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information about
our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our
database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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Alabama Cities - profiles of 6,119 Alabama cities,
towns & neighborhoods Alabama Physical Features such as lakes, islands & steams Alabama Cultural Features such as schools, parks, hospitals
& airports Alabama Civil Features such as Native
Areas and Political
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* includes but not limited to Cemeteries, Churches,
Locales, Military Installations;
Populated Places, Post Offices, Schools, Streams, and Trails |
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Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
state lines. |
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Baine (See
Etowah) Benton (See
Calhoun) Blaine (See
Etowah) Cahawba
(See Bibb) |
Cotaco (See Morgan) |
Hancock (See Winston) Jones (See Covington) |
Sanford (See Lamar) |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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Resources
which enhance our knowledge of the places inhabited by our ancestors are almost
as important as their names. The
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U. S. State. |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium > Genealogy
> USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb - Libraries
on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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·Alabama State Facts
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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