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Bibb County
Census Records
  • 1850 U.S. census, Bibb County, Alabama
  • 1850 Census of Bibb County, Alabama & miscellaneous Bibb County court records
  • 1860 census, Bibb County, Alabama
  • 1860 census Bibb County, Alabama
  • 1860 Bibb County, Alabama
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 31, 160, 166, 178, 194, 200, 225, & 232)
  • Baptists of Bibb County : a denominational salute to the people called Baptists, in Cahawba (Bibb) County, Alabama, 1817-1974
  • Bibb County, Alabama : cemeteries, graveyards, and family burial plots (and along its perimeter)
  • Cahaba Valley Baptist Church : minutes of church conferences April 1902-July 1933 : together with a list of members
  • Cemeteries of Bibb County, Alabama 1817-1974
  • Haysop, a church, a community, a people of Haysop Creek, Bibb County, Alabama
  • Mount Moriah Baptist Church
  • A sir name [sic] index to "Baptist[s] of Bibb County, Alabama, 1818-1974" by Howard F. McCord
County / City / Family Histories
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 31, 160, 166, 178, 194, 200, 225, & 232)
  • Alabama's Bibb County
  • Bibb County
  • Bibb County, Alabama : the first hundred years, 1818-1918
  • "Bloody Bibb"
  • Compiled records of Bibb County Alabama pioneers : biographies genealogy reports notes and records
  • Early Bibb County, Alabama Index
  • Genealogy, Edmonds-Gardner-Logan-Hamilton-Boling Melton-Fuller-Young-McCullough-Bell family of Bibb & Perry County, Alabama, in the 19th century and sketches of some related families ... : our Carolina and Georgia ancestors who migrated to Bibb (Cahaba) and Perry County, Alabama, 1817-1840
  • Genealogy, Hicks family of Bibb County, Alabama, in the 19th Century immigration of John Hicks... : from the Carolinas to Bibb County, Alabama, 1817-1830...
  • Genealogy, Lawrence, Edwards, Ham, Wheeler family of Bibb & Chilton County, Alabama, in the 19th century : our Carolina ancestors who migrated to Bibb (Cahawba) County, Alabama, 1817-1835, primary objective to trace the ancestry of the author
  • Henderson family of Bibb County, Alabama, and related families
  • The heritage of Bibb County, Alabama
  • A history of early Bibb County, Alabama, 1820-1870
  • The Hobsons of Bibb and Perry counties, Alabama
  • I heard the preaching of the elders : an odyssey - from the coal fields of Alabama to Earlham College and beyond - a memoir
  • Miscellaneous records of Bibb and Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama, Union County, Arkansas, Floyd County, Georgia, Scott County, Illinois, Mahaska County, Iowa, Fulton, Mississippi
  • The Murphy family of Bibb County, Alabama and Choctaw County, Mississippi
  • My life story : a coal miner's son
  • Place names of Bibb County, Alabama : Abercrombie to Zuzu
  • The Raglands, Wyatts and Parkers of Bibb, Hale & Tuscaloosa Counties, & Warrior, Alabama in the 1800's
  • The struggle and the joy : an American coal town, Piper, Alabama
  • Surname index : A history of early Bibb County, Alabama, 1820-1870
Court Records
  • 1850 Census of Bibb County, Alabama & miscellaneous Bibb County court records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 31, 160, 166, 178, 194, 200, 225, & 232)
  • Index to Book A, Minutes of the Probate Court, Bibb County, Alabama
Land Records
  • Bibb County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
  • Family maps of Bibb County, Alabama
  • Kaul Lumber Company, Kaul Land and Lumber Company, Sample Lumber Company : records, 1836-1966
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Bibb Co.)
  • Talladega National Forest, Oakmulgee Ranger District, Alabama (1983)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 31, 160, 166, 178, 194, 200, 225, & 232)
  • Bibb County, Alabama, 1820-1862
  • Bibb County, Alabama, unrecorded marriages
  • Marriage records of Bibb County, Alabama, 1820-1860, being transcribed and indexed from the original marriage books
  • Missing early Bibb County, Alabama marriage records
Military History & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 31, 160, 166, 178, 194, 200, 225, & 232)
Periodicals
  • Central Alabama Genealogical Society
  • The Quarterly / Shelby County Historical Society, Bibb County Heritage Association
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