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Searching for your Alabama ancestors? Looking for historical facts? Dates? Events? This book will lead you to the places where you'll find answers.

Here are hundreds of direct sources--governmental, archival, agency, online--that will help you access information vital to your investigation.

Tracing Your Alabama Past sets out to identify the means and the methods for finding information on people, places, subjects, and events in the long and colorful history of this state known as the crossroads of Dixie. It takes researchers directly to the sources that deliver answers and information.

This comprehensive reference book leads to the wide array of essential facts and data--public records, census figures, military statistics, geography, studies of African American and Native American communities, local and biographical history, internet sites, archives, and more.

For the first time Alabama researchers are offered a how-to book that is not just a bibliography. Such complex sources as Alabama's biographical/genealogical materials, federal land records, Civil War­era resources, and Native American sources are discussed in detail, along with many other topics of interest to researchers seeking information on this diverse Deep South state.

Much of the book focuses on national sources that are covered elsewhere only in passing, if at all. Other books only touch on one subject area, but here, for the first time, are directions to the Who, What, When, Where, and Why.

Robert Scott Davis, a professor of history at Wallace State College in Hanceville, Ala., is the author of more than twenty books, including Requiem for a Lost City: Sallie Clayton's Memories of Civil War Atlanta and Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works. ... Read more

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excellent resource
This is an excellent resource for anybody intending to do genealogical research for Alabama roots. Complete guide to finding resources.

Tracing Your Alabama Past
Awesome book with tons of information.
This book lists numerous books, areas of research, where and how to search Alabama records.
This book will save you alot of leg work. Tells how and where to look for Alabama info. A must have if you are a serious Alabama reasearcher.

Tracing your Alabama Past
This book is great for the true researcher.
It gives the years in which each County conatins what records which will save a lot of phone calls & trips.
It refers to other wonderful books that one can get to trace something inparticular. It also refers to finding Alabama research in other States which I found most helpful. ... Read more

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Where?!?
This book includes a rather comprehensive indexing of the myriad Native American town names in Alabama, but a map which illustrated the location of some or most of these towns sure would have been a big help.The narrative location descriptions just don't help me.I'm disappointed. ... Read more

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This is an index to 9,000 wills filed and probated in Alabama between 1808 and1870. A project of the Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, it wasoriginally compiled at the suggestion of the Department of Archives and History of the State ofAlabama. The actual compilation was undertaken by a team of DAR chapter and statecommittees and is based on wills filed in the Department of Archives and History. The indexitself is a model of simplicity, giving, in alphabetical order, the name of the testator, the countyof probate, the identity of the record source (usually a will book), the date of the book, and thepage number; in sum, all that the researcher might require in securing further information fromthe original records. ... Read more

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This is really two books in one. The first part, originally published by Col. Saundersin a series of newspaper articles between 1880 and 1899, is a compendium of genealogicalandbiographical sketches of the early settlers of Lawrence County, Alabama and of Alabama itself.Based on first-hand accounts as well as the author's encyclopedic recollections, it offers glimpsesof people and events that are otherwise beyond the reach of our present-day resources. Avowedly "popular" in approach, it is nonetheless a unique and invaluable record of Alabama'searliest settlers.

The second part of the work, compiled by Col. Saunders' granddaughter, contains detailedgenealogies of nearly 100 Alabama families. Compiled from a multitude of original records, aswell as approved secondary sources, these genealogies usually commence with the immigrantancestor and progress through a chain of descents down to representatives of the line in themid-nineteenth century. They are replete with biographical detail and are often preceded by a listof everyone of the surname mentioned in early court records. The following is a list of some ofthe families treated in this section: Baldwin, Bankhead, Banks, Bibb, Billups, Blair, Cantzon,Clark, Clay, Coleman, Cox, Donohoe, Dubose, Dudley, Dunn, Elliott, Flint, Fountaine, Foster,Fry, Gholson, Goode, Gray, Harris, Hill, Hopkins, Hubbard, Kennedy, Lanier, Ligon, Lowe,McCarthy, McGehee, Maclin, McMillan, Manning, Maury, Moore, Mumford, Oliver, Ormond,Poellnitz, Ray, Richardson, Saunders, Shelton, Sherrod, Shorter, Speed, Swoope, Tait,Taliaferro, Thompson, Tillman, Urquhart, Walthall, Watkins, Webb, Weeden, Wells, White,Withers, Wyatt, Tates, and Young. ... Read more

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Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. Now in her book, Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide, Frazine provides the information and guidance to help locate the resources available for researching African American records in archives, libraries, and county courthouses throughout the state. The idea for this guidebook rose out of her lecturing throughout the country and having noticed that reference guides on African American family history resources seemed to exist for every state except Alabama. This was regrettable not merely for researchers on African American history in Alabama. In fact, Alabama's records play an especially important role in U.S. family history research because of the migration patterns of Alabama's freedmen, first to urban areas of Alabama and then to northern cities, a trend that continued throughout the first part of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Insightful
This genealogy was well worth the price, actually a bargin.The information was indept and accurate.The seller was swift with the product. ... Read more

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Pioneers and Residents of West Central Alabama Prior to the Civil War
I have seen this book before when it first came out, but could not afford to buy it at that time.I am very happy to be able to purchase it at this reassonable price. ... Read more

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Presented chronologically, each flag is represented as it was when created. ... Read more

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An interesting and valuable book for Civil War Historians
This is one of Glenn Dedmondt's books of Civil War Flags of the Confederacy the others in the series include Civil War Flags of Louisiana, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

There are illustrations of the flags that Alabama Regiments flown in battle and in camp.Stories behind the flags tell of how they were made and presented to the units that fought for the Confederacy.These stories are interesting and a valuable resource to the Civil War Historian who is interested about individual regiments that fought for the Confederacy.

The regiments that fought certainly had a wide variety of flags.From the basic 1st National Flag and its varieties, to the Army Of Northern Virginia aka "The Confederate Battle Flag" that units made modifications to as well as quite unique flags that were presented by the Ladies of various towns, all these flags are shown either in illustration or in pictures.This makes for quite enjoyable and interesting reading.

Some of the flags flown met with violent ends.Some were captured in battle by Union Soldiers.Other flags were secretly secured by soldiers who would of rather been killed then give up their flags.Some of these flags that were flown in battle had their color bearers shot while charging the regiment (in some circumstances 3 to 9 color bearers were killed while flying the same flag in battle).These make interesting and tragic stories that will keep the reader way into the night-time hours looking at the flags and their history.

This series is an invaluable tool for the Civil War Researcher/Historian, as well as the "arm-chair" historian who would like to know more about the Civil War.

Highly Recommended!! ... Read more

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George Wallace & Alabama's State Government
George Wallace dominated Alabama politics for a quarter century. Consider the six elections Alabama held for Governor between 1962 and 1982. Voters elected Wallace four times and elected his wife once (when he was ineligible to run for re-election).

Wallace has been the subject of many books (such as Dan Carter's The Politics of Rage and Stephen Leshar's George Wallace: American Populist). But previous books focus on Wallace's impact on national politics. In Stand Up for Alabama, Jeff Frederick examines Wallace's impact on Alabama.

Stand Up for Alabama is a success. Frederick portrays Wallace as a governor who spent his time campaigning instead of trying to run Alabama. The book shines when Frederick explains how Wallace and Alabama's legislature interacted; the relationship was contentious and the relative power of each side shifted as voters' opinions of Wallace shifted.

The book has a few drawbacks. Conservative readers won't like Frederick's steady criticism of Wallace's opposition to tax increases. At times, the narrative bogs down when it cites reams of statistics comparing Alabama's government programs to those of neighboring states.

At 400 pages, Stand Up for Alabama requires a commitment from its readers. But politics junkies with an interest in state government and civil rights will want to read Stand Up for Alabama.
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The book opens with a selection of correspondence that will acquaint readers with James Edmonds Saunders. The first section of this book contains recollections of the early settlers of north Alabama; touching on a wide variety of topics and numerous indiv ... Read more

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Descendants of Matthew Russell and Related Families of Jackson County, Alabama, depicts the life of Matthew Russell and identifies his descendants and their related families; someof whom settled in Jackson County, Alabama.The book is divided into thirteen independent Parts with each part representing the earliest known progenitor and lineage of that particular family.Some of the families identified herein are Allen, Allison, Arnold, Cabe, Crawford, Davis, Doran, Harwell, Henry, Jenkins, Loyd, Lyda, McClatchey, McCrary, Millican, Owens, Phillips, Prince, Rorex, Rudder, Sanders, Smith, Stewart, Talley, Taylor, Thomas, Thornton, Walker, Wallace, Williams, Wimberly, and Wynne, plus many more.For continuity purposes spouses are shown in both families and children are initially identified with their parents; when appropriate children are further identified within the text. Connections between various families are shown by cross-references.Collecting and organizing this vast amount of information and materials occurred over a period of thirty-five years.It represents the efforts of many family historians who shared their carefully preserved memorabilia with the author to assure that memories of their families would never fade.Many contributors are identified within the text while others are shown in endnotes. The combined efforts of everyone involved in this endeavor accumulated more than eight thousand individually indexed names. Expanded Foreword and Introduction inserts, hopefully, will enhance the readability of the work.The Foreword defines and describes the book's organization and presentation.The Introduction attempts to create an awareness in the reader of the conditions some immigrants faced in their country of origin that probably influenced their decisions to undertake the arduous ocean voyage to America; it also touches on various problems they immediately encountered upon arrival and subsequent settlement.Family units diminish with the passing of each generation.Genealogy provides a record and link of our forefathers to those families of the future.Through genealogy there will always be a record of a family's journey through time. ... Read more