Alabama Court records cover a wide range of genealogy topics that can help you in your research, including land ownership, courts, taxes, and naturalizations. Since Alabama court records cover such a wide variety of subjects, they can help you in many different ways. For example, they may help you locate ancestors’ residences, determine occupations, find financial information, establish citizenship status, or clarify relationships between people. It all depends on the type of court records that your ancestors” names appear in.
Alabama Counties with Burned Courthouses
The damage to courthouses greatly has a bearing on genealogists in every way. No only are these historic structures torn from our lifetimes, so are the records they housed: marriage, wills, probate, land records, and others. Once destroyed they’re lost forever. Although they have been placed on mircofilm, computers and film burn too. The most heartbreaking side of this is the reason that nearly all of our courthouses are destroyed at the hands of arsonist. Ten Alabama counties have had significant damage to records by fire. Although, not all records were lost. Below is a directory of the Counties with the County seat and dates of Fires. Ten Alabama counties have had significant damage to records by fire. These burned counties and counties that have had less destructive fires are indicated below. Although, not all records were lost. Three counties have two county seats.
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Alabama Court Links
Alabama Court Website Links
The records of the office of the court clerk or the circuit court records are the most poorly organized and most frequently missing court records. In smaller counties both chancery and circuit court records are maintained by the same clerk. In larger counties the records may be separated.
- Research In State Court Records
- Colonial Courts and Their Records
- State Courts and Their Records
- Federal Courts and Their Records
- Court and Legal Records
- Contents of Court Records
- Published Court Records
- Alabama Court Records Description - from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
- Alabama Court Record Books - Amazon.com
Alabama Immigration and Naturalization Website Links
Mobile served as a port of entry. Most foreign-born immigrants to Alabama arrived through the port of New York. Alabama Naturalization Records usually contains a petition for citizenship with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a petition with the local court clerk, and a Certificate of Naturalization. The National Archives has many of these records. Records of early naturalizations will be in the records of the courts where the naturalization took place.
- Alabama Immigration Project - usgwarchives.org
- Research In Immigration & Naturalization Records
- Alabama Immigration Records Description - from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
- Alabama Immigration Record Books (Amazon.com)
- American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island (ellisisland.org)
- BLM Land Records
- Alabama Land Records
- On-Site Alabama County Court Records Search
- Research In Land Records - from The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy.
- Alabama Land Records Description - from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
- Alabama Land Record Books - Amazon.com
- Research In Probate Records - from The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy.
- How to Locate Printed Probate Records
- Advantages of Printed Probate Records
- Limitations of Printed Probate Records
- Alabama Probate Records Description - from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
- Alabama Probate Record Books - Amazon.com
- Research In Tax Records
- Alabama Tax Records Description - from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
- Alabama Tax Record Books - Amazon.com
