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Dallas County
Census Records
  • 1850 U.S. census, Dallas County, Alabama
  • Alabama census returns 1820 and an abstract of federal census of Alabama 1830
  • Index to the 1860 Dallas County, Alabama census
  • Some Dallas County, Alabama records
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 46, 77, 90, 208, & 220)
  • The best girls in the world : a history of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester in the missions of central Alabama, 1940-2020
  • The first hundred years : a history of the Selma Baptist Church of Christ, commonly known as the First Baptist Church of Selma
  • God's little acre : a history of the Church Street United Methodist Church, 1835-1974, Selma, Alabama
  • A history of Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, Cahaba, Alabama
  • New Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama : genealogical records from January 1, 1925 through December 31, 1987
  • The new nuns : racial justice and religious reform in the 1960s
  • Selma, the gospel at work : progress among the Selma Baptist Association (white) and the Black Baptists to strengthen their missionary and educational efforts
  • Some Dallas County, Alabama records
  • Vital data from cemeteries in Dallas County, Alabama
  • Vital statistics from cemeteries in Dallas County, Alabama
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  • Alabama civil rights crawl : a travel guide
  • Ante-bellum floating palaces of the Alabama River and the "good old times in Dixie,"
  • Born colored : life before bloody Sunday
  • Cahaba : a gift for generations : a series of historical essays revealing the Cahaba River past, present and future
  • Civil War to civil rights : a pictorial history of Selma, Alabama
  • FBI file on the KKK murder of Viola Liuzzo [microform]
  • From Selma to sorrow : the life and death of Viola Liuzzo
  • Genealogical records : Steele, Stone, Norris and Moss families in Autauga and Dallas Counties, Alabama
  • Genealogy, Porter-Milling-Campbell-Hill-Pardue family of Dallas County, Alabama, in the 19th century and sketches of some related families...
  • A glance at early Selma; scenes of Selma, Alabama. 1820-1920
  • A glance at old Cahawba, Alabama's early capital
  • The heritage of Dallas County, Alabama
  • The house by the side of the road : the Selma civil rights movement
  • In peace and freedom : my journey in Selma
  • In the shadow of Selma : the continuing struggle for civil rights in the rural South
  • A micro study of the cotton plantation economy of Dallas County, Alabama [microform] : based on the manuscript census returns of 1860
  • Monumental dreams : the life and sculpture of Ann Norton
  • My God!! It's a cyclone
  • My Selma : true stories of a Southern childhood at the height of the civil rights movement
  • A nostalgic look at Selma theatres
  • Old Cahawba
  • Plantersville : yesterday & today
  • Rivers of history : life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama
  • A sampling of Selma stories
  • Saturday mornings : recalling those life-changing days : a memoir
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  • Selma, 1965
  • Selma 1965 : the photographs of Spider Martin
  • Selma : a bicentennial history
  • Selma, Ala. : The Selma mirror : representative banking, wholesale, manufacturing, real estate and professional interests, sketches and portraits of the men who helped make the city
  • Selma and Dallas County; 150 years
  • The Selma campaign, 1963-1965 : the decisive battle of the civil rights movement
  • The Selma Campaign: Martin Luther King, Jr. Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the Defining Struggle of the Civil Rights Era
  • Selma, her institutions and her men : with new introduction and index
  • Selma and the Liuzzo murder trials : the first modern civil rights convictions
  • Selma, Lord, Selma : girlhood memories of the civil-rights days
  • Selma : queen city of the blackbelt
  • Selma, the gospel at work : progress among the Selma Baptist Association (white) and the Black Baptists to strengthen their missionary and educational efforts
  • Selma's Bloody Sunday : protest, voting rights, and the struggle for racial equality
  • Shadow of Selma
  • South to Selma : 'outside agitators' and the civil rights march that changed America
  • Story of Dallas County
  • The story of Selma
  • The story of the Selma voting rights marches in photographs
  • Take a walk in my shoes : sketches of a struggle to serve
  • "Tasso" : the Bower House at Molette's Bend
  • Three capitals, a book about the first three capitals of Alabama: St. Stephens, Huntsville & Cahawba, including information about the politics, laws, and men of the Territory and State of Alabama, 1818 to 1826
  • A taste of family
  • Yesterday; memories of Selma and its people
Court Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 46, 77, 90, 208, & 220)
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 46, 77, 90, 208, & 220)
  • Index, will book A, 1821-1849, Dallas County, Alabama
  • Index, will book B, 12 Feb. 1850-26 Apr. 1871, Dallas County, Alabama
  • Death notices from The Prattville progress, 1890-1910
Land Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 46, 77, 90, 208, & 220)
  • Dallas County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
  • Deeds Sep 1818-Jul 1829, Dallas County, Alabama
  • People in Dallas County, Ala., in 1829 : index
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Dallas Co.)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 46, 77, 90, 208, & 220)
  • Black marriages 1876, Dallas County, Alabama
  • Dallas County, Alabama, marriage records, 1818-1918
  • Some Dallas County, Alabama records
Military History & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 46, 77, 90, 208, & 220)
  • Battle for Selma
  • Cahaba Prison and the Sultana disaster
  • The hardships of a Confederate industry : Catesby Jones and the Selma Naval Ordnance Works
  • Selma, Alabama, as a center of Confederate war production, 1860-1865
  • "Torpedoes? Damn!" : ordeal at Selma Gun Foundry and Battle of Mobile Bay
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Abstracts from Alabama newspapers (see vol. 1)
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 46, 77, 90, 208, & 220)
  • The Dallas gazette (microfilm)
  • Ebony times of Selma [microform]
  • Genealogical abstracts from Dallas County, Alabama newspapers (1823-1865)
  • Genealogical abstracts from the Southern argus, 6-16-1869 to 12-30-1870 [microform]
  • Selma evening dispatch (microfilm)
  • The Selma morning dispatch [microform]
  • Selma sentinel (microfilm)
  • The Selma weekly messenger [microform]
  • Semi-weekly Dallas gazette (microfilm)
  • Southern democrat (microfilm)
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