Tracing Your Alabama Past

Name: Tracing Your Alabama Past
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ISBN: 9781578064922

ISBN-10: 1578064929

ISBN-13: 9781578064922

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert Scott Davis

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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. 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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 11/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 277
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Robert S. Davis is director of the Family & Regional History Program and senior professor of history at Wallace State College, Hanceville, Alabama. His many publications include Requiem for a Lost City: Sallie Clayton's Memoirs of Civil War Atlanta and Ghosts & Shadows of Andersonville. His current projects include a biography of Colonel George Washington Lee, the controversial Confederate provost marshal of Civil War Atlanta.



List of Maps and Charts


Acknowledgments



Historical Background



Internet, Books, Bibliographies, Periodicals, Newspapers, and Manuscripts



Maps and Places



Biographical Sources



Statewide and Out-of-State Libraries and Archives



Special African American Research Materials



Church and Religious Groups



Prehistoric and Native American Sources



Colonial and Territorial Sources



Migration Sources to and from Alabama



Federal Land Records



Census Records



Other Special Federal Sources



City, County, and Community Sources



Vital Records: Births, Deaths, Divorces, and Marriages



Military Records



Special Reconstruction-Era Resources


Index