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• US territory status: part of Mississippi Territory in 1798, became Alabama Territory in 1817
• First available federal census: 1830
• Available colonial, territorial and state censuses: 1706, 1721, 1725, 1810, 1816, 1850, 1855 and 1866
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• Statewide birth and death records begin: 1908
• Statewide marriage records: 1936
• Counties: seven originally, 67 today
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• Public-land state
Web Sites
Resources
• Alabama Marriages Early to 1825 (Precision Indexing)
• Early Alabama Marriages, 1810-1850 (Family Adventures)
• Historical Atlas of Alabama by Donald B. Dodd (University of Alabama Press)
• Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870 complied by Alabama DAR (Southern Historical Press)
• Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama, 2 volumes, by Lucille Mai Ion Connick (self-published)
• Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers, 1819-1893 by Pauline Gandrud and Myra Jones (Southern Historical Press)
• Place Names in Alabama by Virginia O. Foscue (University of Alabama Press)
• Researching in Alabama: A Genealogical Guide by Marilyn Davis Barefield (Southern Historical Press)
• Research in Alabama by Wendy L. Elliott (American Genealogical Lending Library)
• Tracing Your Alabama Past by Robert Scott Davis (University Press of Mississippi)
Organizations and Archives
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