Alabama Genealogy

I’ve got an initial pass over all of the county pages now. So, there should be a bit of a profile on each county in the state of Alabama. Along with the profile will be some genealogy resource links, and other useful information for that county. As the site goes forward we will be adding more to the county pages, but they will be bits and pieces at a time instead of a huge bulk update like this has been.

This also marks what I would consider our GRAND OPENING! So…. once again WELCOME!

–UPDATE–

I’m sorry to say, there was a typo in the first press release referring to 64 Alabama Counties…. Of course there are 67. I’ve made attempts to get the releases edited, but some have not reflected the change. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Among the Native American peoples living within the present boundaries of Alabama in pre-contact times were ancestors of Alabama (Alibamu), Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Koasati, and Mobile people.

Spanish were the first Europeans to enter Alabama, claiming land for their Crown. They named the region La Florida.

Although a member of Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition of 1528 may have entered southern Alabama, the first fully documented visit was by explorer Hernando de Soto. He made an arduous expedition along the Coosa, Alabama and Tombigbee rivers in 1539.

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In many ways the pages of a site like this never get finished. Resources move, new ones come along and you get more ideas for information to put on the pages. But, the following county pages have had their first pass with information!

I’m really pleased because it marks the 10% mark. I’ve unfortunately had slow going on the pages here since I’ve been simultaneously working a major revision on another site. We’ve also got some great content in the way of posts lined up for the next several months, so…. things are really starting to feel like we’re getting this site off the ground!

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I’ve started work today on some of the county resource pages. Autauga County is looking a bit more complete at the moment than it was earlier with quite a few resource and information links as well as a profile of the county… (only 66 more to go….) I’ve also queued up some articles to be posted here in coming months. Depending on the timing of other work I hope to be able to push ahead with more of the county pages soon and potentially line up more posts. You should expect the posts will be coming out initially every other week. As events warrant though, I may break that schedule and publish more frequently.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Alabama became a state of the United States of America on December 14, 1819. After the Indian wars and removals of the early 1800s forced most Native Americans out of the state, white settlers arrived in large numbers. Wealthy planters created large cotton plantations based in the fertile central Black Belt, which depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans. Tens of thousands of slaves were transported to and sold in the state by slave traders who purchased them in the Upper South. Elsewhere in Alabama, poorer whites practiced subsistence farming. By 1860 African Americans comprised 45% of the state’s population of 964,201.

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