
This subportal is part of the State of Alabama Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities Auburn Birmingham Huntsville Mobile Montgomery
Pioneers of Dallas County, Alabama Dallas County was created on 2/9/1818. Please use the 12/14/1819 the date Alabama became a state plus 40 years 1/1/1860. If you and Questions or Exceptions please contact Chris L.Mathews. Exception will be considered based on the importance of the person to the community. Also, information from an Historic Society, City,County, or StateOfficial will be con...
Dallas County was created by the Alabama territorial legislature on February 9, 1818, from Montgomery County. This was a portion of the Creek cession of lands to the US government of August 9, 1814. The Creek were known as one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast. The county was named for Alexander James Dallas , US Secretary of the Treasury.. The county is traversed by the Alabama Ri...
Mobile County, Alabama Mobile County,AL was created on 12/18/1812. The state of Alabama was created in 12/14/1819 date will be used. If your relative was born before 12/14/1819 you may add them. If your relative you may add your relative after 12/14/1819 plus 40 years 1/1/1860. If you have questions or exceptions please contact Chris L.Mathews. Exceptions will be considered for people of hi...
Wikipedia The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System. Founded in 1831, UA is one of the oldest and the largest of the universities in Alabama. UA offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, Education Specialist, and doctoral degrees. T...
Oak Hill Cemetery Also known as Attalla City Cemetery Attalla, Etowah County, Alabama, USA
Forrest Cemetery Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama, USA
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Etowah County, Alabama. Official Website The territory of Etowah County was originally split among the neighboring counties. It was separated and established as Baine County on December 7, 1866, by the first postwar legislature, and was named for General David W. Baine of the Confederate Army. Because of postwar tensions and actio...
Covington County, named for Brig. Gen. Leonard Covington , was established on December 17, 1821. The Alabama state legislature changed the name to Jones County on August 6, 1868. Two months later on October 10, 1868, the original name was restored. The county was declared a disaster area in September 1979 due to damage from Hurricane Frederic and again in October 1995 due to Hurricane Opal. ...
Wikipedia Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 20,000 undergraduate students, and a total of over 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the M...
Pioneers of Escambia County, Alabama Escambia County, Alabama was created on 12/10/1868. If you relative was born before 12/10/1868 plus 40 years 1/1/1909. If you have Questions or Exceptions, please contact Chris L.Mathews.Exceptions will be considered on the importance of the person to the community. Also, information from an Historic Society,City,Coun ty or State Official will be cons...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Escambia County, Alabama. Escambia County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its county seat is Brewton. Escambia County is coextensive with the Atmore, AL Micropolitan Statistical Area; which is itself a constituent part of the larger Pensacola-Ferry Pass, FL-AL Combined Statistical Area....
Mason Cemetery Escambia County, Alabama, USA
Moore Cemetery Escambia County, Alabama, USA
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Pike County, Alabama. The area of present-day Pike County was inhabited by Native Americans from prehistoric times. Spain, France, and Great Britain all claimed the area, but except for scattered military outposts like Fort Toulouse near present-day Wetumpka, European inhabitants were concentrated along the Gulf Coast, with very few se...
This project is used to relate all units from Alabama who served in the Confederate Army. Wikipedia
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Alabama .Virtual Jewish World: Alabama, United States Virtual Jewish World: Table of Contents | North America | United States Early History While Jewish traders are known to have been active in Alabama as early as 1757, and a number of Jews lived in Mobile in the 1760s under British rule, it was not until the 1820s that the firs...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Alabama. Official Website Jefferson County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Legislature. It was named in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson. In a study of lynchings in the South from 1877 to 1950, Jefferson County is documented as having the highest number of lynchings of any county in...
Birmingham was founded on June 1, 1871, by the Elyton Land Company whose investors included cotton planters, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs. It sold lots near the planned crossing of the Alabama & Chattanooga and South & North Alabama railroads including land formerly a part of the Benjamin P. Worthington Plantation. The first business at that crossroads was the trading post and country sto...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Auburn, Lee County , Alabama. Official Website History Auburn was incorporated on February 2, 1839, in what was then Macon County , covering an area of 2 square miles. By that time, Methodist and Baptist churches had been established, and a school had been built and had come into operation. In the mid-1840s, separate academies for...
Mobile County is located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the third-most populous county in the state after Jefferson and Madison County Counties. As of the 2020 census, its population was 414,809. Its county seat is Mobile, which was founded as a deepwater port on the Mobile River. The only such port in Alabama, it has long been integral to the economy for providi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. Official Website Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County. It was established in 1702 by the French as the first capital of colonial La Louisiane (New France). During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the Uni...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Macon County, Alabama. Official Website The historic tribes encountered by European explorers were the Creek Indians, descendants of the Mississippian culture. Macon County was established by December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek, following the US Congress' passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Creek were removed...
Barbour County was established on December 18, 1832, from former Muscogee homelands and a portion of Pike County. Between the years of 1763 and 1783 the area which is now Barbour County was part of the colony of British West Florida. After 1783 the region fell under the jurisdiction of the newly created United States of America. The Muscogee Creek Confederacy was removed to territory west of th...
Autauga County was established on November 21, 1818, by an act of the Alabama Territorial Legislature (one year before Alabama was admitted as a State). As established, the county included present-day Autauga County, as well as Elmore County and Chilton County. At the time, Autauga (aka, Tawasa) Indians lived here. They were concentrated in a village named Atagi (meaning "pure water") situated ...