This is a list of free Alabama Genealogy Records at FamilySearch.

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Alabama Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Alabama Birth Records

• US – United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index
• Alabama – Alabama Births and Christenings, 1881-1930, index
• Alabama – Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930, index links to images
• Alabama – Index to birth and death certificates, 1917-1919
• Alabama – Alabama newspaper clippings: taken from Georgia newspapers, 1814-1907
• Alabama – Report for 1935
• Alabama – Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Alabama – Alabama notes
• Alabama – Alabama records
• Alabama – Arthur’s in Oklahoma/Alabama
• Alabama – Guide to public vital statistics in Alabama

Alabama Marriage Records

• US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index
• US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
• Alabama – Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950, index & images
• Alabama – Alabama County Marriages, 1818-1936, index
• Alabama – Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957, index
• Alabama – Alabama county marriage records : a miscellaneous collection of records for the most part compiled by various local D.A.R. chapters and presented to Birmingham Public Library
• Alabama – Alabama, county marriages, 1809-1950
• Alabama – Alabama, WPA county archives marriages, 1936-1940
• Alabama – Marriage book, Lawrence Co., Ala. Tax list, Orange Co., N.C. Deed Bk., Orange Co., N.C. Miscellaneous marriages, Ala., N.C., Tenn.
• Alabama – Marriage certificates (Alabama); index, 1936-1959, 1936-1992
• Alabama – [Marriage records 1840-1979] : [various counties in Texas and Alabama]
• Alabama – Some marriages of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia
• Alabama – Orena V. Grant genealogical collection, marriage and cemetery records, from Southeastern, North, and South Central states
• Alabama – Alabama newspaper clippings: taken from Georgia newspapers, 1814-1907
• Alabama – Report for 1935
• Alabama – Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Alabama – Alabama notes
• Alabama – Alabama records
• Alabama – Arthur’s in Oklahoma/Alabama
• Alabama – Guide to public vital statistics in Alabama
• Alabama – County divorce reports, 1818-1929; indexes, 1908-1937;, 1818-1937
• Alabama – Divorce cases, 1816-1847
• Alabama – Divorces, 1938-1992; index, 1950-1959, 1938-1992
• Coosa County – Coosa County, Alabama marriages : books A, B, & C

Alabama Death Records

• US – United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index
• US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
• US – United States Social Security Death Index, index
• US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• US – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
• Alabama – Alabama Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952, index
• Alabama – Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974, index links to images
• Alabama – Alabama deaths, 1908-1959
• Alabama – Alabama deaths, 1908-1974; index to deaths, 1908-1959
• Alabama – Alabama death census, Autauga-Winston counties, 1870
• Alabama – Alabama death schedules
• Alabama – Deaths of state convicts, 1884-1951; deaths of county convicts, 1885-1922, 1884-1951
• Alabama – 1860 mortality schedules for Alabama : Autauga thru Winston counties
• Alabama – Alabama source book
• Index to birth and death certificates, 1917-1919
• Alabama – Alabama newspaper clippings: taken from Georgia newspapers, 1814-1907
• Report for 1935
• Alabama – Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Alabama – Alabama notes
• Alabama – Alabama records
• Alabama – Arthur’s in Oklahoma/Alabama
• Alabama – Guide to public vital statistics in Alabama

Cemeteries

• United States, Cemetery Abstracts, index links to images
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• Alabama, Friends of Magnolia Cemetery, Funeral Books, 1911-1965, index links to images
• Alabama, Mobile Magnolia Cemetery Interment Cards, 1836-1995, index & images
• BillionGraves Index, index links to images
• Find A Grave Index, index links to images
• Alabama cemetery inscriptions
• Alabama cemetery records
• Alabama genealogical records
• Alabama records
• Alabama records, v. 22, family and cemetery
• Cemeteries of Jackson County, Alabama and boundary areas
• Cemetery records and/or tombstone incriptions : [Clay]
• A Comprehensive listing of interments in the Cottondale cemetery, Cottondale, Alabama since 1871
• Florida and Alabama church, cemetery and Bible records
• Miscellaneous Bible and cemetery records
• Miscellaneous genealogical records of Alabama
• Miscellaneous records
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Miscellaneous records from various states
• Miscellaneous records of Alabama : cemetery and Bible records
• Mountain Creek Soldiers Home headstones, 1913
• Report for 1935
• Revolutionary soldiers buried in Alabama
• Some Alabama cemetery records : reprinted from “The Alabama Genealogical Register”
• Some tombstone inscriptions from Alabama cemeteries
• Vernon Parish cemeteries (also other parishes, and Mississippi and Alabama, Texas)
• Orena V. Grant genealogical collection, marriage and cemetery records, from Southeastern, North, and South Central states
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Alabama tombstone inscriptions
• Fort Williams Cemetery, Fayetteville, Alabama
• Master file relocation card index for grave and cemetery removal and relocation, 1934-1954

Obituaries

• United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
• United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
• Alabama obituaries, 1987-2014
• Alabama obituary names
• Data sheets alumnae Alabama conference female college, 1856-1909

Wills & Probate

• Alabama Estate Files, 1830-1976, index & images
• Alabama, Madison County Chancery and Circuit Court Records, 1829-1968
• Alabama, Sumter County Circuit Court Files, 1840-1950
• United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955
• United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874
• Alabama, Jefferson County Circuit Court Papers, 1870-1916
• Alabama, Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880
• Alabama, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
• United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Alabama notes
• Alabama records
• Alabama, probate records, 1809-1985
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Report for 1935
• Alabama source book
• Index to Alabama Wills 1808-1870
• Index to Alabama wills, 1808-1870

Alabama Residence Records

Census

• 1800 – United States Census, 1800, index & images
• 1810 – United States Census, 1810, index & images
• 1816 – Inhabitants of Alabama in 1816
• 1820 – 1820 state census of Lawrence County, Alabama
• 1820 – Alabama census returns, 1820: and an abstract of federal census of Alabama, 1830
• 1820 – Index to Alabama census returns, 1820
• 1820 – State census for Alabama for the year 1820
• 1820 – United States Census, 1820, index & images
• 1830 – Alabama 1830 and Arkansas 1840 census index
• 1830 – Alabama census returns, 1820 : and an abstract of federal census of Alabama, 1830
• 1830 – Alabama, 1830 and 1840 federal census : population schedules
• 1830 – Public Records : [Census: Alabama 1830 – Clay family name]
• 1830 – United States Census, 1830, index & images
• 1835 – Cherokee Nation east, roll of 1835
• 1840 – Alabama U.S. 1840 census: [head of households]
• 1840 – Alabama, 1830 and 1840 federal census: population schedules
• 1840 – United States Census, 1840, index & images
• 1850 – Alabama 1850 census index
• 1850 – Alabama records
• 1850 – Alabama, 1850 federal census: population schedules
• 1850 – Owsley charts: master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
• 1850 – Persons of interest in 1850 census, Bibb County, Alabama
• 1850 – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images
• 1850 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images
• 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images
• 1850 – United States census, Alabama, 1850: Autauga thru Wilcox counties
• 1855 – Alabama 1855 census index
• 1855 – Alabama State Census, 1855, index
• 1855 – Alabama, state census, 1855
• 1855 – State census for Alabama for the year 1855
• 1860 – 1860 mortality schedules for Alabama : Autauga thru Winston counties
• 1860 – Alabama records
• 1860 – Alabama, 1860 federal census : population schedules
• 1860 – Owsley charts : master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
• 1860 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860, index & images
• 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images
• 1866 – Alabama State Census, 1866, index links to images
• 1866 – Alabama, state census, 1866
• 1866 – State census for the state of Alabama in the year 1866
• 1870 – 1870 census index to selected Alabama counties
• 1870 – Alabama death census, Autauga-Winston counties, 1870
• 1870 – Alabama, 1870 federal census : population schedules
• 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images
• 1880 – Alabama death schedules
• 1880 – Alabama, 1880 federal census: soundex and population schedules
• 1880 – Alabama, 1880 federal census: soundex and population schedules
• 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images
• 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
• 1890 – United States Census, 1890, index & images
• 1900 – Alabama, 1900 federal census: soundex and population schedules
• 1900 – Alabama, 1900 federal census: soundex and population schedules
• 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
• 1900 – United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940
• 1907 – Alabama, Madison County, census and pension rolls of Confederate soldiers, 1903-1927
• 1907 – Census or enumeration of Confederate soldiers residing in Alabama, 1907
• 1910 – Alabama, 1910 federal census: soundex and population schedules
• 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
• 1920 – Alabama, 1920 federal census: soundex and population schedules
• 1920 – Alabama, 1920 federal census: soundex and population schedules
• 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
• 1930 – Alabama, 1930 federal census: soundex and population schedules; NARA microfilm publication T626 and M2049
• 1930 – Alabama, 1930 federal census: soundex and population schedules ; NARA microfilm publication T626 and M2049
• 1930 – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index
• 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
• 1940 – Alabama, 1940 population census: population schedules
• 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images
• Census records and Cherokee muster rolls
• The Jacobs collection

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• Maps in the Samford University Library: an annotated list
• History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography
• Handbook of Alabama: a complete index to the state, with map

Directories

• Reference book (and key) containing ratings of merchants, manufacturers and traders generally
• A register of students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901

Land and Property

• Alabama notes
• Alabama population relocation files, 1934-1954
• Alabama records
• Certificate no. [21442?] 1839 Sept. 8, land patent issued to George M. Duke
• County boundaries, 1808-1910
• First settlers of the Mississippi Territory
• Inventory of publicly owned lands for Walker County, Alabama : as of October 1939
• Land grants and patents, 1819-1850
• Letters and surveying contracts received by the General Land Office from the Surveyor General for Alabama, 1817-1832
• Memorial of the inhabitants in the Cherokee country : State Department records, endorsed August, 1819
• Mississippi provincial archives, 1763-1783; English dominion : transcripts of archives in the Public Record Office, London, England
• Original Spanish, French and English documents, 1788-1798; index, 1788-1798, 1788-1798
• Owsley charts : master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
• Tax lists, 1811 and 1812, Madison County, Miss. and a few Alabama land entries
• Tribal officers, 1866-1914, Financial records of Tribal Officers, 1905-1913 and National Council, 1820-1907
• Alabama source book
• Card files

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

• United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
• United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
• United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images
• Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky mixed relocation files : NARA, Record Group (RG) 142 (Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority), 1937-1954
• Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at ports in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, 1890-1924 : NARA RG85 publication T517

Taxation

• Internal revenue assessment lists of Alabama, 1865-1866

Naturalization & Citizenship

• Birmingham roll of attorneys, 1885-1947; unidentified index, 1885-1947
• Declarations of intention, Huntsville, 1875-1894
• Declarations of intentions, naturalizations, and petitions, 1855-1964
• Military petitions, for Montgomery, Alabama, 1918
• Naturalization records (Birmingham, Alabama), 1908-1963
• Naturalization records (Birmingham, Alabama), 1910-1941
• Naturalization records, Mobile, 1931-1969
• Naturalization records, Selma, Alabama, 1909-1929

Passport

• United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images

Pension

• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images
• Alabama, Confederate pension applications, ca. 1880-1930’s
• Confederate pension applications, ca. 1880-1930’s
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Report for 1935
• Confederate pension records, 1928-1921

Alabama Daily Life Records

Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks

• Corolla
• The genesis of public education in Alabama
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the state of Alabama, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M810
• Southern University graduates in Greensboro, Alabama
• University of Alabama students’ records with genealogical data

Bible Records

• Family Bible record collection – Alabama
• Alabama genealogical records
• Alabama records, v. 22, family and cemetery
• Florida and Alabama church, cemetery and Bible records
• Mid-south Bible records
• Miscellaneous Bible and cemetery records
• Miscellaneous genealogical records of Alabama
• Miscellaneous records
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Miscellaneous records of Alabama : cemetery and Bible records
• Report for 1935
• Tombstone inscriptions from Masonic Cemetery of El Paso, Texas : and family bible records of Tennessee, Alabama, 1797-1954

Bibliography

• A bibliography of Alabama
• Check list of Alabama imprints, 1807-1840

Biography

• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama families : [index of] names found in the Memorial record of Alabama … published in 1893
• Annals of northwest Alabama
• A book of the South : featuring Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Tennessee Valley
• History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography
• History of Alabama and her people
• How they got there
• Makers and romance of Alabama history : embracing sketches of the men who have been largely instrumental in shaping the policies and in molding the conditions in rapid growth of Alabama, together with the thrilling and romantic scenes with which our history is resplendent
• Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account of the state’s political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people
• Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account of the state’s political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people
• Necrology
• Necrology
• Necrology
• Necrology
• Necrology
• Northern Alabama, historical and biographical
• Northern Alabama, historical and biographical
• Notable men of Alabama : personal and genealogical with portraits
• Reminiscences of public men in Alabama, for thirty years : with an appendix
• Reminiscences of public men in Alabama, for thirty years : with an appendix
• Report for 1935
• Revolutionary soldiers in Alabama : being a list of names, compiled from authentic sources, of soldiers of the American Revolution, who resided in the state of Alabama
• Who’s who in Alabama volume 1, 1939-1940
• Who’s who in the central states : a biographical dictionary of leading men and women of the Central States
• History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography
• Alabama official and statistical register

Business Records & Commerce

• Alabama : her resources and what she is doing with them
• Tribal officers, 1866-1914, Financial records of Tribal Officers, 1905-1913 and National Council, 1820-1907
• Whiskey traffic and gambling suppression, 1880-1909

Centennial Celebrations

• Alabama day : proceedings of the celebrations of the anniversary of the admission of the state of Alabama into the Union, Dec. 14, 1899-Dec. 14, 1903
• How Bienville saved Mobile : second of a series of children’s plays in commemoration of the close of a century of statehood

Church

• Alabama, births and christenings, 1881-1930
• Alabama, deaths and burials, 1881-1952
• Alabama, marriages, 1816-1957
• Alabama genealogical records
• Baptist churches in Alabama, 1847-1969
• Biographical dictionary of Alabama Baptists 1920-1947
• Book of Kahl Montgomery, 1817-1970 : history, church records and sunday school records
• A Catholic history of Alabama and the Floridas
• The formation of the Alabama synod
• Handbook of the Alabama Conference Historical Society, M.E. church, South. 1910
• A history of Methodism in Alabama
• History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida : being an account of the amazing march of Methodism through Alabama and West Florida
• A history of the Central Association of Alabama : from its organization in 1845 to 1895
• History of the Clear Creek Baptist Association, 1874-1957
• The history of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Alabama prior to 1826
• History of the Liberty (East) Baptist Association of Alabama
• History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Alabama, 1763-1891
• A memorial history of the Baptists of Alabama : being an account of the struggles and achievements of the denomination from 1808 to 1923
• Memorial sketches of the lives and labors of the deceased ministers of the North Alabama conference, Methodist Episcopal church, South (1870-1912)
• Methodist Episcopal churches, South, 1883-1925, Alabama
• Mississippi Baptist
• Report of the Alabama History Commission to the governor of Alabama, December 1, 1900
• Some old churches of the black belt
• Annual genealogical report, Form E, 1907-1951, record of members, 1888-1943; record of children blessed, 1898-1922
• Baptist churches in Alabama, 1817-1969
• Baptist churches in Alabama, 1837-1969
• Baptist churches in Alabama, 1847-1969
• Book of Kahl Montgomery, 1817-1970 : history, church records and sunday school records
• Church records (Alabama), 1868-1992
• Data sheets alumnae Alabama conference female college, 1856-1909
• Data sheets for ministers in Alabama and West Florida Conference, ca. 1809-1962
• Florida and Alabama church, cemetery and Bible records
• Methodist Episcopal churches, South, 1818-1963, Alabama
• Methodist Episcopal Churches, South, 1845-1908, Alabama
• Mississippi Baptist
• Primitive Baptist churches in Alabama, 1822, 1834-1962
• Primitive Baptist churches in Alabama,1805-1935
• Report for 1935
• Statistics of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Alabama
• Guide to vital statistics records in Alabama church archives, 1942
• Alabama, WPA inventory of church archives, 1936-1940
• Inventory of the church archives of Alabama : Protestant Episcopal Church

Court Records

• Alabama, Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880, index links to images
• Alabama, Jefferson County Circuit Court Papers, 1870-1916, index & images
• Alabama court records, 1874-1881,1936
• Alabama records
• Bankruptcy matter concerning R. E. Neville, Jr., 1997
• Birmingham roll of attorneys, 1885-1947; unidentified index, 1885-1947
• Confederate States of America District Court dockets, 1861-1863
• Misc. early court records of North Carolina & Alabama
• Northern Alabama Railroad Company versus Alabama Central Railroad Company
• Original Spanish, French and English documents, 1788-1798; index, 1788-1798, 1788-1798
• Report for 1935
• Tribal officers, 1866-1914, Financial records of Tribal Officers, 1905-1913 and National Council, 1820-1907

Description & Travel

• Alabama : a few remarks upon her resources, and the advantages she possesses as inducements to immigration
• Alabama : her resources and what she is doing with them
• Scenes in Alabama : published in twelve parts
• Summary geography of Alabama ; one of the United States
• Alabama : a guide to the deep South
• Handbook of Alabama : a complete index to the state, with map

Employment Records

• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
• Courts, judges, and lawyers of Mississippi, 1798-1935
• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama official and statistical register
• Biographies of governors of Mississippi Territory, 1798-1817

Ethnic Records

African American Records

• United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images
• United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images

Native American Records

• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
• Cherokee Nation east, roll of 1835
• A combination of a sketch of the Creek country, in the years 1798 and 1799 : and, Letters of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1806
• Index to the 1835 census of the Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi River
• Memorial of the inhabitants in the Cherokee country : State Department records, endorsed August, 1819
• Red Eagle and the wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama
• Report of the Alabama History Commission to the governor of Alabama, December 1, 1900
• A sketch of the Creek country, in the years 1798 and 1799, and, letters of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1806
• Tribal officers, 1866-1914, Financial records of Tribal Officers, 1905-1913 and National Council, 1820-1907
• Woodward’s reminiscences of the Creek, or Muscogee Indians : contained in letters to friends in Georgia and Alabama
• Registers of some of the descendants of the Creek Indians
• History of Alabama, and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period
• Index to Woodward’s reminiscences of the Creek or Muscogee Indians

Japanese American Records

• United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images

Other

• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• Alabama, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
• Minutes of the fourth annual session of the East Alabama Colored Musical Convention : held with New Bethel Church, White Oak Springs, Barbour County, Ala., Aug. 8,9 and 10, 1890
• Records of the field offices for the state of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1900
• The Curry family–Alabama mulattoos (1840)

Genealogy

• Alabama family genealogies
• Alabama genealogical records
• Alabama notes
• Alabama records
• Alabama, WPA life histories, stories, ex-slave tales, and short stories
• Ancestor charts
• Biographical dictionary of Alabama Baptists 1920-1947
• A Comprehensive listing of interments in the Cottondale cemetery, Cottondale, Alabama since 1871
• Early settlers of Alabama
• Early settlers of Alabama
• Genealogical gleanings from the South
• Genealogical records
• History of Alabama and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period
• History of the Liberty (East) Baptist Association of Alabama
• Miscellaneous family records
• Miscellaneous genealogical records of Alabama
• Miscellaneous records
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Pattillo papers, 1924-1966
• Revolutionary soldiers buried in Alabama
• Some Louisiana and Mississippi families from Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, 1652-1971
• Surname collection
• Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society
• Transformation of a wilderness
• The Alabama genealogical register
• Journal of the Genealogical Society of Okaloosa County, Florida : a journal of northwest Florida
• Settlers of Northeast Alabama
• Southern roots & shoots (Delta Genealogical Society : Georgia)
• Jackson County, Alabama miscellaneous private records
• Report of the Alabama History Commission to the governor of Alabama, December 1, 1900

Government & Politics

• Circular to the people of the fifth congressional district of Alabama
• For the making of a greater Alabama : an address on vital state issues
• Handbook of Alabama : a complete index to the state, with map
• Minutes of the sixth Masonic Conference of DeKalb County, Alabama : held with Hall of Fort Payne Lodge, A.F. and A.M., no. 437 : February 24th, A.D. 1898, A.L. 5898 : officers of the convention, W.T. Fuller, worshipful master, H.A. McSpadden, secretary
• Session of the Alabama legislature : a paper prepared for the Historical Society of Alabama
• Alabama official and statistical register
• Hand-book of Alabama : a complete index to the state, with map

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• Newspapers on microfilm, Samford University Library Microfilm Department
• Report of the Alabama History Commission to the governor of Alabama, December 1, 1900
• Alabama Department of Archives and History collection of early American history : Mayflower Society collection
• Alabama, Southern Claims Commision approved claims, 1871-1880
• Alabama, Southern Claims Commission approved claims, 1871-1880
• Alabama, WPA county archives inventory, 1936-1940
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 02, Federal Courts, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 03, Department of the Treasury, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 04, Department of War, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 05, Department of Justice, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 07, Department of the Navy, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 08, Department of the Interior, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 09, Department of Agriculture, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 10, Department of Commerce, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 12, Veterans’ Administration, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 16, Farm Credit Administration, no. 02, Alabama
• Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 17, Miscellaneous agencies, no. 02, Alabama

Historical Geography

• Statistics of the counties of Alabama

History

• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama : her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama as it is : or, the immigrant’s and capitalist’s guide book to Alabama
• Alabama day : proceedings of the celebrations of the anniversary of the admission of the state of Alabama into the Union, Dec. 14, 1899-Dec. 14, 1903
• Alabama day program : a suggestive program for the use of schools in the appropriate formal observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Alabama to the Federal Union, December 14, 1919
• Alabama history
• Alabama official and statistical register
• Alabama, WPA county historical sketches, 1936-1940
• Alabama, WPA library narratives by county
• Alabama, WPA life histories, stories, ex-slave tales, and short stories
• Annals of northwest Alabama
• Annals of northwest Alabama
• Art work of central Alabama cities
• A book of the South : featuring Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Tennessee Valley
• The building of the state
• Colonial and economic history
• Early history of Huntsville, Alabama : 1804 to 1870
• Early history of Southeast Alabama
• An early history of the Bear Creek watershed area of Northwest Alabama with emphasis on the Overton farm; a resource intern report
• Early settlers of Alabama
• Early settlers of Alabama
• Hand-book of Alabama : a complete index to the state, with map
• Handbook of Alabama : a complete index to the state, with map
• The Hill country of Alabama, U.S.A., or, The land of rest
• History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography
• History of Alabama and her people
• History of Alabama and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period
• History of Alabama, and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period
• A history of Alabama, for use in schools : based as to its earlier parts on the work of Albert J. Pickett
• How Bienville saved Mobile : second of a series of children’s plays in commemoration of the close of a century of statehood
• Indian massacres in Butler County in 1818
• Makers and romance of Alabama history : embracing sketches of the men who have been largely instrumental in shaping the policies and in molding the conditions in rapid growth of Alabama, together with the thrilling and romantic scenes with which our history is resplendent
• Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account of the state’s political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people
• Memorial record of Alabama : a concise account of the state’s political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people
• Minutes of the sixth Masonic Conference of DeKalb County, Alabama : held with Hall of Fort Payne Lodge, A.F. and A.M., no. 437 : February 24th, A.D. 1898, A.L. 5898 : officers of the convention, W.T. Fuller, worshipful master, H.A. McSpadden, secretary
• The mission of Francis Scott Key to Alabama in 1833
• Northern Alabama, historical and biographical
• Northern Alabama, historical and biographical
• On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the state of Alabama
• Press statements concerning the Historical Records Survey of Alabama
• Report for 1935
• Scenes in Alabama : published in twelve parts
• Sketches of Alabama towns and counties
• The story of Alabama : a history of the state
• Studies in southern and Alabama history : papers
• Tales of the hills and hollows
• WPA Alabama writers project, 1930’s
• Alabama Department of Archives and History collection of early American history : Mayflower Society collection
• History of Alabama and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period
• Mississippi provincial archives, 1763-1783; English dominion : transcripts of archives in the Public Record Office, London, England
• History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography
• The Alabama historical quarterly
• The Journal of Muscle Shoals history
• Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society
• Constitution and by-laws of the Alabama Society of New York City
• Handbook of the Alabama Conference Historical Society, M.E. church, South. 1910
• Membership roll & register of ancestors, vols. 1-3
• Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the state of Alabama, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M810
• Report of the Alabama History Commission to the governor of Alabama, December 1, 1900

Magazines & Periodicals

• Alabama official and statistical register

Newspapers

• Abstracts from Alabama newspapers
• Alabama newspapers and periodicals in 1915
• Alabama records
• Gleanings from Alabama newspaper files
• Newspapers on microfilm, Samford University Library Microfilm Department

Prisons/Prisoners Records

• Deaths of state convicts, 1884-1951; deaths of county convicts, 1885-1922, 1884-1951
• Tribal officers, 1866-1914, Financial records of Tribal Officers, 1905-1913 and National Council, 1820-1907

Public Records

• United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
• Public Records: [Alabama and Virginia marriages]
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the state of Alabama, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M810

Slavery & Bondage

• Alabama, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
• Alabama, WPA life histories, stories, ex-slave tales, and short stories
• H.C. Nixon papers, 1912-1913
• The large slaveholders of the deep South, 1860
• Original Spanish, French and English documents, 1788-1798; index, 1788-1798, 1788-1798
• Owsley charts : master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
• Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War : Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M809
• Records of the field offices for the state of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1900
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the state of Alabama, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M810

Social Life & Customs

• Annals of northwest Alabama

Societies

• Alabama blue book and social register
• Alabama regents of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
• History, Department of Alabama, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
• Lineage book of the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
• Membership roll & register of ancestors, vols. 1-3
• Membership roster, September, 1956 : the Alabama Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, roster and roll of honor, 1903-1956
• Sons of the Revolution in the State of Alabama
• Sons of the Revolution in the State of Alabama
• The Alabama Historical Society : reminiscences of fifty years
• Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society

Alabama Military Records

• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
• United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
• United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
• Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872
• Report of the Alabama History Commission to the governor of Alabama, December 1, 1900
• Alabama records
• Alabama state troops (militia), 1873-1898
• Genealogical records of Sherman Lee Pompey
• Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Florida War in organizations from the state of Alabama
• Mountain Creek Soldiers Home headstones, 1913
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the state of Alabama, 1865-1870: NARA, RG105, M810
• Report of the Alabama History Commission to the governor of Alabama, December 1, 1900
• Territorial militia and civil service, 1818
• Texas war with Mexico, 1835-1836
• Volunteer soldiers in the Cherokee War, 1836-39
• Index for compiled service records, Alabama units – Florida War

Indian Wars

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• Indian war service, 1812-1814
• Indian War, 1836
• Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee removal in organizations from the state of Alabama
• Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Creek War in organizations from the state of Alabama
• Index to compiled service records, Alabama units, Creek War, l836-l837

Revolutionary War

• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
• United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
• Revolutionary soldiers buried in Alabama
• Revolutionary soldiers in Alabama
• Revolutionary soldiers in Alabama
• Revolutionary soldiers in Alabama : being a list of names, compiled from authentic sources, of soldiers of the American Revolution, who resided in the state of Alabama
• Revolutionary War service, 1776-1783

War of 1812

• Graves of Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee volunteers buried near Ft. Williams, Ala.
• Indian war service, 1812-1814

Mexican-American War

• United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
• Mexican War service, 1846-1847

US Civil War

• Alabama Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
• Alabama Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
• Alabama, Census of Confederate Veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927, index & images
• Alabama, Confederate Pension Applications, ca. 1880-1930’s, index links to images
• United States Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons, 1865-1867, index links to images
• United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
• United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
• United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
• United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865
• United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866
• United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866
• Alabama Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
• Alabama Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
• Alabama, Census of Confederate Veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927
• Alabama, Confederate Pension Applications, ca. 1880-1930’s
• Alabama state militia, 1820-1865
• Alabama, Civil War service records of Confederate soldiers, 1861-1865
• Alabama, Civil War service records of Union soldiers, 1861-1865
• Alabama, Madison County, census and pension rolls of Confederate soldiers, 1903-1927
• Alabama, Southern Claims Commision approved claims, 1871-1880
• Alabama, Southern Claims Commission approved claims, 1871-1880
• Compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Alabama
• Confederate service record, out of state, Arkansas, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Florida, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Georgia, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Illinois, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Indiana, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Kentucky, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Louisiana, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Maryland, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Michigan, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Mississippi, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Missouri, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, North Carolina, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Ohio, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, South Carolina, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Tennessee, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Texas, 1861-1865
• Confederate service record, out of state, Virginia, 1861-1865
• Muster lists of the Alabama Confederate troops
• Alabama, Civil War service records of Confederate soldiers, 1861-1865
• Alabama, Civil War service records of Union soldiers, 1861-1865
• Alabama, Southern Claims Commission approved claims, 1871-1880
• Index to compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Alabama
• Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Alabama
• Confederate pension applications, ca. 1880-1930’s
• 1862 Alabama, salt list : Autauga, Butler, Choctaw, Conecuh, Coosa, Monroe, Montgomery, Tallapoosa
• Administrators of Confederate soldiers, 1862-1864
• Applications for relief by maimed Confederate soldiers
• Census or enumeration of Confederate soldiers residing in Alabama, 1907
• Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Alabama
• Confederate service record, 1861-1865
• Miscellaneous family relationships of Confederate soldiers, 1862-1864
• Negroes in the Confederate Army, 1860-1907
• Parents of Confederate soldiers, 1862-1864
• Roll of Confederate prisoners of war, paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, May 1865
• Widows of Confederate soldiers, 1862-1864
• [Alabama Confederate troops] : Master lists of the Alabama Confederate Troops
• A blockaded family : life in southern Alabama during the civil war
• Brief historical sketches of military organizations raised in Alabama during the Civil War
• The campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest and of Forrest’s Cavalry : with portraits, maps, and illustrations
• Civil War and reconstruction in Alabama
• Civil War return veterans list of indigent, 1876-1915, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
• The compilation of narrative histories or historical sketches of Alabama commands in the War between the States, 1861-1865
• Confederate soldiers of St. Clair, Shelby and Jefferson Counties, Alabama
• Forty-fourth Alabama Regiment
• A history of Lumsden’s Battery, C.S.A.
• History of the campaign of Mobile : including the coöperative operations of Gen. Wilson’s cavalry in Alabama
• History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate brigades, 1861-1865 : and, from Wakarusa to Appomattox, a military anagraph
• A history of the Sixtieth Alabama Regiment, Gracie’s Alabama Brigade
• Waiting for the moment
• Recollections of war times by an old veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet : how I got in and how I got out
• History of the First Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A.
• A history of the Sixtieth Alabama Regiment, Gracie’s Alabama Brigade
• Recollections of war times by an old veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet : how I got in and how I got out
• Alabama, census of Confederate veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927
• Confederate soldiers in Alabama, 1907-1927
• Alabama, census of Confederate veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927

Spanish-American War

• Spanish-American War service, 1898-1899

World War I

• Alabama, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919, index links to imagesUnited States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
• United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
• Alabama, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
• Alabama, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
• Alabama, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
• World War I service records, 1918-1919

World War II

• Alabama, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index & images
• United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, indexUnited States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
• United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
• Alabama, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945
• Alabama, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1945
• Alabama, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947
• Alabama, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1945

Korean War

• United States Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953, index

Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions

• United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images
• Alabama, Confederate pension applications, ca. 1880-1930’s
• Confederate pension applications, ca. 1880-1930’s
• Miscellaneous records (Alabama)
• Report for 1935
• Confederate pension records, 1928-1921

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• Alabama For Further Reading
• Alabama Record Finder
• Alabama Research Tips and Strategies
• Alabama Search Strategies
• Step-by Step Alabama Research, 1880-Present

Onsite Records

• Alabama onsite records from the FamilySearch Catalog

Onsite Records that are becoming available online

• Alabama onsite records from the FamilySearch Catalog that may be available online if you follow the link to an individual collection. For example, Alabama Obituary Names from the Catalog, with a digital version available here. You’ll scroll through the images similar to scrolling through a microfilm.