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Blount County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vol. 204)
  • Blount County, Alabama, cemeteries
  • Blountsville, Alabama Cemetery
  • Church book of the Mount Moriah Church, 1820 to 1901 : Early Primitive Baptist Church, organized March 18,1820, Blount County, Alabama
  • Index to church book of the Mount Moriah Churh 1820-1901 : early Primitive Baptist Church organized March 18, 1820, Blount County, Alabama
  • The history of the Blountsville Methodist Church
  • Little known burial sites and cemeteries Etowah County Alabama : Whites, Blacks and Indians, includes a few from nearby counties (Blount, Cherokee, DeKalb, Marshall and St. Clair)
  • Miscellaneous Alabama cemeteries. Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
Census Records
  • 1850 U.S. census, Blount County, Alabama
  • Blount County, Alabama (1830-1860)
  • Blount County, Alabama (1830 & 1840)
  • Blount County, Alabama, 1870 federal census
  • Blount County, Alabama, 1880 federal census
  • Blount County, Alabama, 1900 census index
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County / City / Family Histories
  • Allgood families of Blount County, Alabama
  • Bangor : days gone by
  • Bicentennial edition of the heritage of Blount County
  • Blount County, glimpses from the past
  • Blount County Memorial Museum and Palisades Park Extension Museum and historic structures
  • Blount Springs : Alabama's fountain of youth
  • A Blountsville picture book
  • Champion mines : our fathers' mines : a history of the Champion Mine and the Tait's Gap Mine in Oneonta, Alabama : the lives and times of the miners and their families
  • The community of Village Springs, Alabama
  • Footprints in the dust : stories from the Old Tuscaloosa Road
  • The heritage of Blount County
  • The Heritage of Blount County, Alabama (1999)
  • The people and places of Wynnville, Alabama : an oral tradition put into print
  • Simple times at old field farm
  • Tales of old Blount County, Alabama
  • Welcome to Blount County : home of the Covered Bridge Festival
Court Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 204 and 245)
  • Blount County, Alabama (see vol. 3)
  • Direct index to records, 1862-1900 [microform] ; Reverse index to records, 1862-1900 ; Record book ; Deed record ; Record of deed and mortgages ; Deeds and mortgages record ; Record of deeds ; General Record
  • Dower record, 1874-1926
  • Minute book, 1820-1845
  • Partial and final settlement record, 1870-1883
  • Probate docket and fee book, 1871-1882
  • Probate minutes [microform] ; Probate Court minutes ; Records, probate minutes
  • Sale record, personal property, 1870-1900 [microform] ; Real estate sale record, 1871-1896
  • Will record, 1872-1933
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 204 & 245)
  • Blountsville, Alabama Cemetery
  • Misc. birth and death records, 1905-1912 [microform]
  • Obituaries taken from the Southern Democrat, Blount County, Alabama, 1915-1940
Land Records
  • Blount County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
  • United States land patents, Blount County, Alabama, 1819-1956
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vol. 204)
  • Blount County, Alabama (see vol. 2)
  • Blount County, Alabama marriage records
  • Blount County, Alabama marriages, 1821-1844
  • Early Blount County, Alabama marriage records, 1820-1991 [i.e. 1891] : computer indexed marriage records
  • Index to marriage records, 1820-1844 [microform] ; WPA index to marriage records, 1820-1888 ; Marriage record 1820-1912 ; Marriage record, western division, 1893-1901
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Blount Co.)
Military History & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 204 & 245)
  • Blount County, Alabama Confederate soldiers
  • Blount County, Alabama World War One draft card abstracts
  • Census of Confederate soldiers in Ala., 1907
  • The Forrest-Streight raid : a Blount County viewpoint
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Index to Lineage & Letters : newspaper column by Emma Linder in The Southern Democrat
  • People and things from the Blount County, Alabama, Blount County Journal, 1909-1918
  • People and things from The Blount County news and dispatch
Periodicals
  • Alabama family history and genealogy news
  • Northeast Alabama settlers
  • Settlers of Northeast Alabama
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