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St. Clair County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Ashville Baptist Church and its beginnings
  • Greensport Baptist Church : history, first 150 years, 1851-2001
  • History of Hulletts Chapel Methodist Church and the Bear Mountain Community
  • Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church and cemetery : Odenville, Alabama : history and tombstone inscriptions
  • A Roster and brief history of Ashville cemetery
  • Shadow of the almighty : brief histories of eighteen churches in Lower Beaver Valley
  • Some St. Clair County cemeteries (Ragland)
  • St. Clair County cemeteries
  • "That's the way it was" : history of the Steele United Methodist Church, 1878-1978
Census Records
  • 1830-1840 U.S. census, St. Clair County, Alabama
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1850 : seventh census of the United States
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1860 : eighth census of the United States
  • Early St. Clair County, Alabama records
  • First families of St. Clair County and Northeast Alabama
  • St. Clair County 1870 census index
  • St. Clair County, Alabama, genealogical notes
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  • St. Clair County, Alabama, records, 1821-1870
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  • The ancestors and descendants of William and Ellen Moore, St. Clair and Jefferson County, Alabama
  • Argo through the years
  • Corncobs, cockleburs and country boys
  • Cotton pickin', coon huntin', country boys
  • Dead towns of Alabama
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  • From Laurens to St. Clair : the ancestors and descendants of Henry Box (1765-1835), St. Clair County, Alabama
  • From Trout Creek to Ragland : a history of Ragland, St. Clair County, Alabama
  • The heritage of St. Clair County, Alabama
  • History of St. Clair County (Alabama)
  • History of St. Clair County, Alabama : a description of the land and its people, Indians and whites from 1534 to 1846
  • History of Springville, Alabama : 1969, the sesquicentenial anniversary
  • History of Springville, Alabama : including the 1969 edition compiled by Margaret Forman Windham, and revisions and additions
  • History of Steele, Alabama : Saint Clair County
  • History of Steele, Alabama, Saint Clair County (rev. ed.)
  • Howard Cruse
  • How me and Amos won World War I
  • John Lonergan painter : my story in art
  • McCullough family descendants, Cherokee, Lamar, Blount, St. Clair, Alabama
  • Odenville, Alabama : a history of our town, 1821-1992
  • Pioneer : Thomas King, Springville, Alabama : 1813-1956
  • The road to Margaret : a story of hope and survival in the industrial South
  • Snapshots in time : pictorial history of St. Clair County
  • The story of Dr. John Burrell Bass, 1845-1909
  • Uniquely St Clair : historical profiles & legends of St Clair County, AL
  • The Village and its neighbors : a history of the Village at Cook Springs and its surroundings
  • Where the saints have trod : a history of St. Clair County High School, Odenville, Alabama
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1850 : seventh census of the United States
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1860 : eighth census of the United States
  • By murder, accident, and natural causes : death notices from St. Clair County, Alabama, newspapers, 1873-1910
  • Wedding bells & funeral knells : marriage, birth & death notices from St. Clair County, Alabama, newspapers, 1911-1939
Land Records
  • St. Clair County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (St. Clair Co.)
  • Map of the Coosa River from Lock No. 4 to Greensport, Alabama (1890)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Alabama county marriage records : a miscellaneous collection of records for the most part compiled by various local D.A.R. chapters and presented to Birmingham Public Library ... (Vol. 5 & 8)
  • Marriages of St. Clair County, Alabama
  • St. Clair County marriages,1818-1899
  • Wedding bells & funeral knells : marriage, birth & death notices from St. Clair County, Alabama, newspapers, 1911-1939
Military History & Records
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Always a Marine : PFC George Adams, from South Pacific jungles to sands of Iwo Jima
  • Confederate veteran reunions held at Odenville, Alabama 1911-1916 where was begun the drive for a St. Clair County Confederate Memorial
  • A list of some Confederate soldiers serving from St. Clair County, Alabama
Newspaper Abstracts
  • In the news : articles from St. Clair County Alabama newspapers, 1897-1927
  • That's the way it was
Periodicals
  • Cherish : the quarterly journal of the St. Clair Historical Society
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