Profile managers: T Taylor [send private message], Allecia Mullins [send private message], Anon Murphy [send private message], and Alan Murphy [send private message]

Welcome!

Alabama Roots is a sub-project of The United States Project.

The Project Leader is Lisa R. Franklin.

The goal of this project is to provide a place for Alabamians to have help and discuss all things Alabama and their families.

We're always looking for new members! To join us simply add the category to your profile page and check out some of our To-Do ideas below. We will be more than happy to help you in any way we can as will any of the Alabama Project lead members. We'd like to focus on adding those folks who are linked with Alabama through history, as well as create free-space pages for important events and organizations.

To-Do List

Here are some of the tasks that we think need to be done. Project members have been working on them, and could use your help.

• The Description of Alabama and her families .
• Adding town-level categories to profiles
• Locate Alabama Notables that need to be added or improved (and work with the Notables project to get that done.)
• Errors on profiles from Alabama, as reported by the Database Errors Project.

What Members are working on

• Mayor David Vann, being worked with by Jenny Snyder
• Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations, being worked with by Jenny Snyder
• Early Alabama History space page (pre 1820) is being compiled by Lisa R. Franklin

Resources

• Early Alabama History
• Sweet Home Alabama: The Alabama Experience, 1993. Part 1, Part 2.
• Alabama State Archives
• University of Alabama
• Tracking Your Roots
• Encyclopedia of Alabama
• Military archives at Alabama Department of Archives and History
• Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War
• Alabama Resources, including state & federal census' at FamilySearch.org
• Birmingham Photos
• Alabama State Parks
• Alabama historical time line
• Alabama Archives, Libraries, and Societies on Ancestry.com
• Alabama on Archives.gov
• Alabama Revolutionary Soldiers on Archives.gov
• The Creek Indians in Alabama 19 Mar 2009 presentation of Kathryn Braund at the Alabama Department of Archives and History's ArchiTreats
• Birmingham Public Library Online
• Obituary Index : Birmingham Area Newspapers
• Alabama Genweb When you use this link, know the state genweb has records that the county may not have and the county has some records that are not available for the state, so you should search both places
• Alabama History.com
• Travel Guide: Birmingham, Alabama
• Small Town Flavor: Fairhope, Alabama
• Holtville, Alabama : A Rural Community -1945 American Town Educational Documentary
• Alabama City Remembered as Climactic Battle of Civil Rights Movement
• Video of Diane McWhorter Author "Carry Me Home"
• An OverView of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham Alabama
• Alabama's Invisible Seal 19 Nov 2015 presentation of David Robb at the Alabama Department of Archives and History's ArchiTreats
• Alabama Family History & Research By Robert S. Davis at ancestry.com.
• Historic Markers Across Alabama
• Alabama Department of Archives and History's "Who Are These People" - help identify Alabamians in old archives photographs.