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Mobile County

Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records

Behind the wall : the Sisters of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama : their community, academy and retreat house, 1833-2002
Burial records Mobile County, Alabama
Cities of silence : a guide to Mobile's historic cemeteries
Friends and loved ones remembered : Mobile County Alabama cemeteries
A history of the Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama
A history of Church Street Graveyard, Mobile, Alabama, compiled by Col. and Mrs. Soren Nelson, under the auspices of Historic Mobile Preservation Society
Magnolia Cemetery : a collection of records from the gravestones of one of the oldest cemeteries in Mobile, Alabama, including the Confederate Rest, dating from 1828 to 1971
Magnolia Cemetery records : squares 1-5, Mobile AL
Mobile church records 1704-1813 : a partial reconstructed list
Mobile funerals, 1726-1764: Alabama Church Records of the French Province of Louisiana
Old Whistler cemetery tombstone inscriptions, 1828-1970
Pine Crest Cemetery Mobile, Alabama
Records of the Parish of Notre Dame De La Mobile, 1704-1764 : selected excerpts recorded in French
Roche-McKay funeral records
Sacramental records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Mobile, Volume 1, Section 1, 1704-1739
St. John's Church, Mobile, a history. Compiled from the Minutes of the vestries and the Church registers, 1853-1963
South-southwest Mobile County, Alabama cemeteries : Book 1
Tombstone inscriptions, Catholic Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama
West Mobile County Alabama cemetery list

Census Records

1867 voting registration, loyalty oaths, individual pardon applications
Alabama 1860 agricultural and manufacturing census ... (see vol.2)
Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
Alabama mortality schedule, 1850 : seventh census of the United States
Alabama mortality schedule, 1860 : eighth census of the United States
Birth notices / published by the Mobile Genealogical Society, Inc.
British Mobile inhabitants : a compendium of the inhabitants of Mobile and the Central Gulf Coast, 1763-1780
Census - 1850, City of Mobile, Alabama
Census 1855 [microform]
Creole Mobile : a compendium of the colonial families of the central Gulf Coast, 1702-1813
Gulf Coast colonials; a compendium of French families in early eighteenth century Louisiana
Lists of ships passengers, Mobile, Alabama
Mobile birth records 1810-1834
Mobile city directories, 1837-1859 [microform].
Mobile colonials, 1763-1813
Mobile County census, northern division, 1860
Mobile directory, 1837 and 1839
Spanish census reports at Mobile

County / City / Family Histories

100 things to do on the Alabama gulf coast before you die
The African ancestry of the founders of AfricaTown, Alabama
Africatown : America's last slave ship and the community it created
Alligators and me : my life in Alabama, 1968 : a memoir
Among the swamp people : life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta
Back home : journeys through Mobile
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
Bellingrath Gardens and Home : near Mobile, Alabama, a pictorial story in color, the garden for all seasons
Bits of charm in old Mobile
Blood : a memoir
Boyington Oak : a grave injustice
Carnival in Alabama : marked bodies and invented traditions in Mobile
Clotilda : the history and archaeology of the last slave ship
The confession of Dorothy Danner : telling a life
Cowbellion : the Antebellum Gulf Coast and the birth of America's Mardi Gras
Dead towns of Alabama
Directory and genealogy of the descendants of James and Rose McPhillips of Alabama
Dauphin Island, French possession, 1699-1763
Dear friends : letters from L.A.* (Lower Alabama)
Dear Shelby Leigh : memories of mid-century Mobile
Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America
From Mobile's past; sketches of memorable people and events
Ghosts of old Mobile
Free negroes in Mobile County, Alabama
From the back of the pews to the head of the class : the remarkable accomplishments of a segregated Catholic high school in the deep South
The Greater Gulf State
Haunted Mobile : apparitions of the Azalea City
The heritage of Mobile County, Alabama
Hidden history of the Mississippi Sound
Hidden history of Mobile
Historic photos of Mobile
A history and survey of community music in Mobile, Alabama [microform]
History of beautiful Dauphin Island : origin of street names
A history lover's guide to Mobile and the Alabama gulf coast
How to build a piano bench : lessons for success from a red-dirt road in Alabama
In the path of the storms : Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama coast
The journals of Henry Allen Lowe, Jr, 1869-1877
The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning
The majesty of Mobile
Mardi Gras in Mobile
Mobile, Alabama's people of color : a tricentennial history, 1702-2002
Mobile : American river city
Mobile aviation
Mobile baseball connection : history of baseball in Mobile, Alabama
Mobile: fact and tradition, noteworthy people and events
Mobile : photographs from the William E. Wilson collection
The Mobile River
Old Mobile photograph album / presented by First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Pedigree charts
Pink sheets and black ballots : politics and civil rights in Mobile, Alabama, 1945-1985
Port city crusader : John LeFlore and the Non-Partisan Voters' League in Mobile, Alabama
Preserved secrets : legends of the Wright Brothers, a cousin's story
Professional baseball in lower Alabama : minor leagues in Mobile since 1886
Remembering Mobile
Romances of Mobile, issued by Louisville & Nashville R.R.
Secret Mobile : a guide to the weird, wonderful, and obscure
She's bound to be a goer : Fairhope, Alabama and the steamboats of Mobile Bay, 1894-1934
South Alabama toward 2000 : human challenges
South Mobile : 1699-2018
Ten stars : the African American journey of Gary Cooper : Marine general, diplomat, businessman, and politician
Turn of the century Mobile: people and places
A voyage to Dauphin Island in 1720 : the journal of Bertet de la Clue
Whistler - a historical survey : the Whistler directory 1816-1879
Whistlin' woman and crowin' hen : the true legend of Dauphin Island and the Alabama coast
Why we are here : Mobile and the spirit of a Southern city
Wicked Mobile
A wind called Frederic : a historical photographic documentation

Court Records

1867 voting registration, loyalty oaths, individual pardon applications
Abstracts of Orphans Court minutes, Mobile County, Alabama
Abstracts, will book 3, Mobile County, Alabama, 1857-1870
Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vol. 92)
The Denbigh's civilian imports : customs records of a civil war blockade runner between Mobile and Havana
Index to divorce cases of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama, 1816-1918
Miscellaneous record books A-Z, 1815-1909 : Mobile County Probate Court, Mobile, Alabama
Missing files in Probate Court of Mobile County, Alabama : November 27, 1889
Mobile County wills, 1807-1837 : abstracts of will book 1 of Mobile County, Alabama
The Mobile Mayor's Court reports : 1864
The Mobile Mayor's Court reports : 1865
Tax rolls 1836 thru 1839, Mobile, Alabama
Will Book IV, 1860-1875 Mobile County Probate Court, Mobile, Alabama

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
Bay and bayou burials
Burial records Mobile County, Alabama
Death notices
Higgins Mortuary records : 19th-early 20th centuries, Mobile, AL-volume 1 : extracted from original mortuary records of 1930s deaths
Mobile County death records [1876-1908] [microform].
Mobile funerals, 1726-1764: Alabama Church Records of the French Province of Louisiana
Mobile records 1812 to 1834 : a compendium of historical and genealogical records of early-American Mobile
Roche-McKay funeral records

Land Records

Abstract of title "The Espejo tract" Mobile, Alabama
Mobile County, Alabama, ancestral homesteads
Mobile land grants, 1710-1795
Who are you, staking a claim in this land?

Maps

Alabama Maps website (Mobile Co.)
Entrance of Rear Admiral Farragut in to Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864
Travel like a local : map of Mobile

Marriage Records & Notices

Alabama county marriage records (see vol.1 & 5)
Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vol. 92)
Early selected Mobile County, Alabama marriage index, 1791-2003
George County, Mississippi white marriage records
Love's legacy : the Mobile marriages recorded in French transcribed, with annotated abstracts in English, 1724-1786
Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1813-1855
Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1856-1875
Mobile records 1812 to 1834 : a compendium of historical and genealogical records of early-American Mobile

Military History & Records

Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vol. 92)
Battleship Alabama
Besieged : Mobile 1865
The Confederate defense of Mobile, 1861-1865 [microform]
Confederate Mobile
Confederate Mobile; a pictorial history
The Denbigh's civilian imports : customs records of a civil war blockade runner between Mobile and Havana
Fort Bowyer : defender of Mobile Bay, 1814-1815
Heroes afloat : Federal Medal of Honor winners at the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864
A history of the Mobile District Corps of Engineers, 1815-1985 : prepared for US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District
The last siege : the mobile campaign, Alabama 1865
Last stand at Mobile
Major Robert Farmar of Mobile
Mobile: 1861-1865; notes and a bibliography
Mobile, 1865 : last stand of the Confederacy
Mobile Bay : 150th anniversary of the Civil War
Mobile Bay and the Mobile campaign : the last great battles of the Civil War
Mobile records 1812 to 1834 : a compendium of historical and genealogical records of early-American Mobile
Mobile under siege : surviving the Union blockade
Selected final pension payment vouchers, 1818-1864 : Alabama: Decatur-Huntsville-Mobile-Tuscaloosa
The siege of Mobile, 1780, in maps : with data on troop strength, military units, ships, casualties, and prisoners of war, including a brief history of Fort Charlotte (Condé)
Two naval journals, 1864, at the Battle of Mobile Bay: The journal of Mr. John C. O'Connell, CSN, on the C.S.S. Tennessee and The journal of Pvt. Charles Brother, USMC, on the U.S.S. Hartford. Edited by C. Carter Smith, Jr.
USS Alabama
The USS Tecumseh in Mobile Bay : the sinking of a Civil War ironclad
West wind, flood tide : the Battle of Mobile Bay

Newspaper Abstracts

Climbing the family tree : 1999 2000
Climbing the family tree : 2001 2002
Climbing the family tree : genealogical newspaper column

Periodicals

Deep south genealogical quarterly.

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