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Baldwin County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Alabama DAR Genealogical Records Committee report. Series 2 volume Miscelaneous records
  • The ballad of Little River : a tale of race and restless youth in the rural South
  • Cemetery readings and census transcription
  • Miscellaneous Alabama cemeteries
  • My Cross Roads Church of God : an investigative history from my perspective
  • Pine Rest Memorial Park and Funeral Home Foley, Alabama
Census Records
  • 1850 U.S. census, Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Alabama 1860 agricultural and manufacturing census ... (vol. 3)
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Alabama census returns 1820 and an abstract of federal census of Alabama 1830
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1850 : seventh census of the United States
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1860 : eighth census of the United States
  • Baldwin County, Alabama; 1860 federal census and schedule of deaths taken by E. E. Carpenter
County / City / Family Histories
  • The 50 best small southern towns
  • 100 things to do on the Alabama gulf coast before you die
  • Across the creek : the history and genealogy of the communities, Phillipsville, Halls Fork and High Pine, Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Baldwin County
  • Baldwin vignettes : 100th anniversary, 1884-1984 : Snook family's 100th year in telephone communication service.
  • Belforest School history : 1896-1950 : Baldwin County Alabama School # 54
  • The best place to be : the story of Orange Beach, Alabama
  • A brief history of Baldwin County
  • Byways of Baldwin : it's people, history, scenic attractions and growth from 1936
  • Coastal kingdom : a history of Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Dead towns of Alabama
  • Elberta Golden Jubilee.
  • Fairhope
  • Fairhope, 1894-1954; the story of a single tax colony
  • Fairhope : a decade of stories
  • The fair hope of heaven : a hundred years after utopia
  • Foley
  • Foley steps forward : an anecdotal history since 1921
  • Formerly of Montpelier, a plantation
  • From cottages to condos / a cooperative effort between the GFWC Gulf Shores Woman's Club and the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau.
  • Grand traditions : Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama
  • Haunted Baldwin County, Alabama
  • The heritage of Baldwin County, Alabama.
  • Highlights and highways of Baldwin : the 1939 guide to Baldwin County.
  • Historic Baldwin County : a bicentennial history
  • A history of Baldwin County.
  • Little gems from Fort Morgan, the cradle of American history
  • A look back : stories of struggle and survival growing up and out of rural Alabama
  • Lulu's kitchen : a taste of the Gulf Coast good life
  • Man and mission : E.B. Gaston and the origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony
  • Once upon an island... / as told to and collected by the Gulf Shores Woman's Club ; project chairman, Day Fullbright ; editor, Patricia H. Bonkemeyer
  • Pig trails and open roads : stories of Central Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Portrait of Margaret Tate : mistress of Montpelier, a plantation
  • Real Fairhope folks
  • Shadows and sunshine; along the paths the Taensas trod.
  • She's bound to be a goer : Fairhope, Alabama and the steamboats of Mobile Bay, 1894-1934
  • The sleeping juror & other Baldwin County courtroom tales and history
  • Stump the librarian : a writer's book of legs
  • Tell it to an old hollow log : growing up in Daphne, Alabama
  • The Tensaw Country : north of the Ellicott Line, 1800-1860 : Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Thoughts from the heart : writings from the Gulf Coast of Alabama
  • A utopian heritage : the Fairhope Single Tax Colony
Court Records
  • Abstracts of will book A, 1809-1881 Mississippi Territory & Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Index to divorce cases of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama, 1816-1918
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • 1870 mortality schedule : Mobile and Baldwin counties, Alabama : persons who died during the year ending 1st June 1870
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1850 : seventh census of the United States
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1860 : eighth census of the United States
  • Deaths 1886-1894, Baldwin County, Alabama
Land Records
  • Baldwin County, Alabama, ancestral homesteads
  • Deed book A : Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Family maps of Baldwin County, Alabama : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Baldwin Co.)
  • Defence of Fort Morgan, August 1864
  • Entrance of Rear Admiral Farragut in to Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Abstracts of will book A, 1809-1881 Mississippi Territory & Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Alabama county marriage records (see vol. 2)
  • Baldwin County, Alabama, 1846-1875 : Cherokee County Alabama, 1821-1898.
  • Genealogical sources for marriage officiants of Baldwin County, Alabama, 1866-1910 : Jefferson Ellis, and other ministers of the gospel
  • Marriage records Baldwin County, Alabama, 1871-1889
  • Marriage records Baldwin County, Alabama, 1889-1898
  • Marriage records of Baldwin County, Alabama, 1800-1900
  • Records of marriage licenses granted and issued to freed negroes, 1866-1885, Baldwin County, Alabama
Military History & Records
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • The assault on Fort Blakeley : the thunder and lightning of battle
Periodicals
  • Quarterly / Baldwin County Historical Society
  • Yore lore
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