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Talladega County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 23, 51, & 83)
  • Early tombstone records of Talladega County, Alabama
  • The Ebenezer church (of Talladega County, Alabama) and its families
  • A history of the First Baptist Church Talladega, Alabama : its pastors, people, and programs through one hundred fifty years 1835-1985
  • Legacies : case histories of three pioneer Baptist churches illustrating the value of Baptist recordkeeping, Antioch, Bethlehem, Salt Creek
  • Rural churches, Talladega County, Alabama
  • Talladega County, Alabama tombstone inscriptions of all known cemeteries, 1700's to 1987
  • The tie that binds : history of Alpine Baptist Church, 1832-1988
Census Records
  • 1840 U.S. census, Talladega County, Alabama
  • 1850 U.S. census, Talladega County, Alabama
  • Talladega County, Alabama index, heads of households : 1860 Federal census
  • Talladega County, Alabama : index heads of households 1870 and 1880 federal population schedules plus federal mortality schedules
County / City / Family Histories
  • Around Stemley Bridge
  • The Creeks of Talladega
  • Dreadzil Evans Pace and Melita Leverett of Talladega County, Alabama : some descendants
  • East Street, South : pen and ink drawings of historic Talladega and north Talladega County homes, with comments
  • Fascinating Talladega County : rich in history and in legends
  • Fear God and walk humbly : the agricultural journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877
  • Going home
  • Haunted Talladega County
  • The heritage of Talladega County, Alabama
  • Historic Fayetteville's old fashioned county fair 1995 driving tour, Talladega Springs, Alabama
  • Historic tales of Talladega
  • History of Childersburg : Coosa, oldest city in America
  • Index to Sketches of Talladega County, Alabama, a collection
  • Magic in stone : the Sylacauga marble story
  • Northeast of Flagpole Mountain : a community memoir
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  • Sketches of Talladega County, Alabama : a collection
  • Talladega (Talladega County) Alabama and its industrial opportunities
  • Talladega College : the first century
  • Talladega County memories : a pictorial history
  • Talladega : pathways to the past
  • Talladega superspeedway
  • Unbroken and unbound : a life dedicated to God, justice, and the South
Court Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 23, 51, & 83)
  • Index to estate filling [sic] cases (loose packets), 1832-1994 : office of probate judge, Talladega County, Alabama
  • Index to orphans court minute book[s] : Talladega County, Alabama
  • Inventory of the county archives of Alabama (see #61)
  • Talladega County, Alabama : court orders 1856-1862
  • Wills & inventories of Talladega Co., Al. / indexed
Land Records
  • Talladega County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Talladega Co.)
  • Map of Talladega County, Ala. (c. 1930)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 23, 51, & 83)
  • Early Talladega County, Alabama marriage records, 1835-1837 : computer indexed marriage records
  • Talladega County, Alabama, marriage book "A-1834" (1833-1846)
Military History & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 23, 51, & 83)
  • Confederate muster of Talladega County from Talladega County Court House
  • Triumph of community enterprise : a brief history of the Talladega County War Plants Conversion Committee, 1944-1948
  • An uncompromising secessionist : the Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eighth (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 23, 51, & 83)
  • Alabama reporter (1863-1867)
  • The Alabama reporter (1916-1917)
  • Daily home
  • Democratic watchtower [microform]
Periodicals
  • AlaBenton genealogical quarterly
  • AlaBenton Genealogical Society quarterly
  • Newsletter / Talladega County Historical Society
  • Northeast Alabama settlers
  • Settlers of Northeast Alabama
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