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General Genealogy Info

General information for those starting to research their Alabama roots and family history.
Ancestry.com
This site tauts itself as "home of the largest collection of family history data online." You'll find most popular searchable databases and Ancestry World Tree.
Cyndi's List of Alabama sources
Just about every link you'd every want or need when researching your Alabama roots.
Family Search
Official site for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Searches Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index, and web sites (by last name only).
Family Tree Magazine
Free newsletter, tip of the day, site of the day, what's new feature, and search engine.
Genealogy
About.com site for everything connected to genealogy including Irish, Italian, German, and Jewish resources, oral histories, and royal genealogies.
Genealogy Funny Papers
This site contains funnies, graveyard humor, poems and limericks, and cartoons on everything genealogy.
Genealogy Helplist
  Volunteers willing to do free lookups at institutions near them for fellow genealogy buffs.
Genealogy.com University
Free online course in beginning genealogy, tracing immigrant origins, and internet genealogy.
Genealogy World
Online database, bulletin board, free articles, tutorials, help and guidance in getting own homepage, free graphics, and sample homepage templates.
GeneaSearch
Database to search for newsletters, historical societies books, and other genealogical material for your surnames.
Genie Angels
Volunteers who will obtain documents for you from places near them for their expenses only.
Legal Land Descriptions
Definitions of terms used in the Township and Range System in the Southern United States.
Mark Grace's Alabama Census Pages
Mark has scanned the original census of many Alabama counties including Walker, Dale, Coffee, Geneva, Hall, Upson, Pike, Clark, Conecuh, Floyd, Greene, Talladega, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Washington, Wilcox, and Walton.
National Genealogical Society
Tips on getting started, news and events, conferences, library, membership, educational opportunities, and a bookstore.
National Personnel Center
Repository of millions of military personnel, health, and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century.
Official Land Patent Records Site
Database search for two million Federal land title records for the Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.
Rhonda's Links to Look Up Volunteers
Volunteers who do free lookups for genealogy buffs.
RootsWeb
Free genealogy community with millions of pages of data.
Seventh Day Adventist Periodical Index
Search the index by subject, words in title, author, article title, journal title, obituary name or death date. Includes info on the periodical and the obituary indexes.
Social Security Death Index
Searable database from SSA's Master Death File on deceased persons who possessed SS numbers and whose death has been reported to the SSA.
The Cemetery Column
This site has everything associated with cemeteries: worldwide news, commentaries, reference library on funeral practices, law, and business, and genealogical research.
TopoZone
Use this site to find detailed topographic maps.

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