Alabama Genealogy & Family Trees

Learn when births, deaths, and marriages were recorded in Alabama, and how to obtain Alabama birth, death, marriage, divorce, and adoption records. Includes links to Alabama birth certificate, marriage certificate, and death certificate applications.

Find links to free online census records for Alabama from Mark E. Reed

Society Hill offers a good listing of genealogical and historical societies in Alabama with phone numbers, addresses, and Web sites (when available).

Well-maintained list of locality-specific resources, includes links to Alabama genealogy records, mailing lists, organizations, and archives - organized by county.

State resources on this huge volunteer Web site include census, vital records, queries, surname listings, publications, associations and libraries, lookup volunteers, and more!

A wonderful source of information on state and federal censuses, land records, county records, vital records, city directories, surname files, and African American research.

Society Hill offers a good listing of genealogical and historical societies in Alabama with phone numbers, addresses, and Web sites (when available).

Part of the worldwide Books We Own project, this Alabama page contains listing of genealogy and history books with volunteers willing to do lookups.

Find links to free online census records for Alabama, compiled by Mark E. Reed.

Learn how to research your Alabama ancestors with this free compilation of Alabama genealogy research strategies and resources. From FamilySearch.org.

Well-maintained list of locality-specific resources, includes links to Alabama genealogy records, mailing lists, organizations, and archives - organized by county.

State resources on this huge volunteer Web site include census, vital records, queries, surname listings, publications, associations and libraries, lookup volunteers, and more!

Family History Centers, outreaches of the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, are located throughout the world to help individuals search the records of their ancestors.

Learn how to research your Alabama ancestors with this free compilation of Alabama genealogy research strategies and resources. From FamilySearch.org.

A free message board devoted to Alabama queries.

John Fuller and Christine Gaunt maintain a wonderful list of genealogy mailing lists for Alabama and its counties, plus information on how to subscribe to each.

Browse this free registry, by state and county, to find transcribed cemetery data for the state of Alabama. A special project of USGenWeb.

Online census data transcribed by hard-working volunteers of this USGenWeb project. Some years and counties are not yet available.  Consider signing up to help!

A guide to obtaining copies of Alabama vital records, such as birth & death certificates, marriage licenses & divorce decrees.