| Huntsville Roots--Genealogy Research |
If you're researching your family tree in the Huntsville, Madison County area, you'll find lots of helpful sites to help the beginner or experienced genealogist including the Heritage Room at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library and the Maple Hill Cemetery, the biggest and oldest cemetery in Alabama. Maple Hill Cemetery has a special section for Confederate Soldiers who died in the Civil War plus lots of interesting and beautiful monuments. You might want to join the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society and receive their quarterly magazine, Valley Leaves, covering information on 9 counties in North Alabama and detailing how you, too, might qualify as a "First Family" of the Tennessee Valley.
For a list of records available in Madison County and where to write for them, plus some valuable tips for genealogists, visit the Lineage Genealogy site. The Family History Center is located on Sparkman Drive and is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It is open to the public on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Wednesday mornings. A second Family History Center in the south part of town is located on Byrd Springs Road, open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings and evenings. They also have a list of resources available at the center listed.
Don't miss out on all the information available from the USGenWeb project for Madison County, Alabama . The Sons of Confederate Veterans offers many links for Civil War research and extensive research in the Huntsville area. You can buy The Valiant Survivors: The United Confederate Veterans of Madison County or receive information on a particular veteran's records via email from them. Don't forget to check the Political Graveyard for Madison County, AL if you're looking for relatives who were politicians. You can shop at Big Spring Books for out of print, rare, used or antiquarian hard-to-find books. An inventory and search is available online.
No matter WHERE in the world you are researching ancestors, you can find some valuable information and links at Family Tree Magazine. Take advantage of their database search or enroll in a "Writing Your Life Stories" workshop. And last, but certainly not least, check out Cyndi's List of Alabama sources. Everyone who is using the internet for genealogical research knows about Cyndi and her exhaustive list of links. There's pure gold in them there links!
If you find a link that you think might help other Alabama genealogists, just let me know and I'll be happy to research it and add it to our Alabama Genealogy netlinks.
Big
Spring Books
Order old and rare books on genealogy, Civil War, and history of
Alabama.
Cyndi's
List of Alabama sources
Link to exhaustive genealogy information for research purposes.
Family
History Center
A resource from the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS open to the
public. A second location in Huntsville is Byrd Springs Road.
Heritage
Room
Genealogy room on upper floor at the HPL. Many sources of local
history and research available.
Huntsville-Madison
County Public Library
Online resources and services available.
Lineage
Genealogy
Tips to new genealogists and information on records for Madison
County are available at this site.
Madison
County, Alabama
USGenWeb project that contains county information resources.
Maple
Hill Cemetery
History of cemetery and list of those buried in the cemetery.
Political
Graveyard for AL
Database of politicians from the past.
Tennessee
Valley Genealogical Society
Nine counties of North Alabama join forces to research ancestors.
