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Montgomery County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Antioch Baptist Church, Mt. Meigs, Alabama : history, pastors, leaders and the community
  • Bible records of Montgomery County, Alabama, and surrounding counties : (listed with sources)
  • Behind the scenes : the memoirs of J. Frank Alexander, Jr.
  • Fighting the good fight : a history of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865-1977
  • The first 150 years : Montgomery's First Baptist Church, 1829-1979
  • A history of the Clayton Street Baptist Church
  • History of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama, with sketches of the other Baptist churches of the city and county, in papers presented at the Hundredth Anniversary of the First Baptist Church celebrated in Montgomery, November 29-December 1, 1929
  • The history of the Holt Street Church of Christ : and its role in establishing Churches of Christ among African Americans in central Alabama, 1928-1997
  • Miscellaneous Alabama cemeteries. Alabama Society Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Remount Memorial Cemetery : State of Alabama, Montgomery County
  • The Taste of Dexter : celebrating the centennial of Dexter Avenue United Methodist Church, 1888-1988, Montgomery, Alabama, and featuring sketches of historic Montgomery
  • Voices from the Dexter pulpit
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  • Baseball in Montgomery
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  • Closed ranks : the Whitehurst case in post-civil rights Montgomery
  • Daughter of the boycott : carrying on a Montgomery family's civil rights legacy
  • Drifting into darkness : murder, madness, suicide, and a death 'under suspicious circumstances'
  • Duck and cover : a nuclear family
  • The early history of Montgomery and incidentally of the State of Alabama
  • 'Echoes' of Robert E. Lee High School : the first decade, 1955-65
  • From Marion to Montgomery : the early years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925
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  • One of the first : lessons I learned while overcoming the challenges of integration
  • Recollections of the early settlers of Montgomery County and their families
  • Respectable and disreputable : leisure time in antebellum Montgomery, Alabama
  • Slavery in America: the Montgomery slave trade
  • Stepping out with Scott and Zelda : touring the Fitzgeralds' Montgomery
  • The story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in photographs
  • They had no voice : my fight for Alabama's forgotten children
  • Through others' eyes : published accounts of Antebellum Montgomery, Alabama
  • Vanished in the unknown shade : Sidney Lanier's Montgomery years
  • A white preacher's memoir : the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • The way it was, 1850-1930 : photographs of Montgomery and her central Alabama neighbors
  • Who was Dexter Avenue, anyhow? : stories behind the street names in Montgomery, Alabama
  • The wisdom of eagles : a history of Maxwell Air Force Base
  • The works of Matthew Blue : Montgomery's first historian
Court Records
  • Death, marriage and probate notices from Montgomery, Alabama newspapers
  • Pintlala's cold murder case : the death of Thomas Meredith in 1812
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
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  • Death notices from The Prattville progress, 1890-1910
Land Records
  • Early land patents of Montgomery County, Alabama
  • Montgomery County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
  • Montgomery County, Alabama list of property owners
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Montgomery Co.)
  • Whitson's Map of Montgomery County, Alabama (c. 1930)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Death, marriage and probate notices from Montgomery, Alabama newspapers
  • Marriage records of Montgomery County, Alabama, 1817-1850, being transcribed and indexed from the original marriage books
  • Montgomery County, Alabama, 1817-1850
  • State of Alabama, Montgomery County marriage books
Military History & Records
  • Confederate home front : Montgomery during the Civil War
  • Montgomery in the good war : portrait of a southern city, 1939-1946
  • So far from home : Royal Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight training at Maxwell and Gunter fields during World War II
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Death, marriage and probate notices from Montgomery, Alabama newspapers
  • Death notices from The Prattville progress, 1890-1910
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