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Montgomery County, Alabama Genealogy

Montgomery County, Alabama genealogy and family history research page. Find links to record collections, history, and genealogy resources to help you trace your Montgomery Co., ancestors.

Montgomery County Quick Facts

The act that created Montgomery County provided that its courts were to meet initially at Fort Jackson, located at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers and site of the surrender of the Creek Indians to Gen. Andrew Jackson, in present-day Elmore County. Andrew DexterThe courts met there only until June 1818, after which they met in nearby Alabama Town, founded by Gen. John Scott, who with several other migrants from Georgia founded the town on the bluff of the Alabama River. The men abandoned it when a group from New England, led by Andrew Dexter, founded a nearby town in what is now the downtown area of Montgomery and named it New Philadelphia. Scott and his companions then built a new town they called East Alabama. Seeing themselves as rivals, the citizens of East Alabama contemptuously referred to New Philadelphia as Yankee Town. The bitter rivalry ended, however, when the towns merged on December 3, 1819, and incorporated as the city of Montgomery, just prior to Alabama being admitted as a state.

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Montgomery County Genealogical & Historical Societies and Family History Resources

A list of Montgomery County Historical  and Genealogical Societies, Forums, Message Boards, Libraries, Archives. See Also Alabama Archives, Genealogical and Historical Societies for statewide Addresses and links.

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Montgomery County Courthouse and Government Records

Researchers often overlook the importance of Montgomery County court, probate, and land records as a source of genealogy and family history information. Buried away in Alabama courthouses and archives everywhere are the dreams and frustrations of many Alabama citizens. The chances are great that your ancestors have left a detailed record of at least some aspects of their lives in the Montgomery County court records.

Please call the clerk’s department to confirm hours, mailing address, fees and other specifics before visiting or requesting information because of sometimes changing contact information. Even if your ancestor is not mentioned in a Court case, consider all of the other procedures which could have lead to him or her appearing in court records.

Montgomery County is the seat of state government. Montgomery County is governed by an elected five-member commission and includes two incorporated communities.
The following indicates what vital, land, probate, and court records are in Montgomery county.  The dates indicated below are the first known records for each county.

  • Montgomery County Clerk of Circuit Court serves as custodian of all county court records, and is responsible for providing access to those court records by court personnel, the legal community and the public.
    • Address: P.O. Box 223, Montgomery, AL 36101-0223
    • Phone: (334) 832-4950
    • Court Records: 1811
    • Divorce Records: are maintained among the equity records (Divorces issued prior to 1950 are located here. Divorces issued after 1950 can be found  at the Alabama Department of Public Health)
  • Montgomery County Clerk of Probate Court maintains following records in the probate office: Plats, Maps, Judgments, Liens, Deeds, Mortgages, Corporations, Lis pendens, Marriage licenses, Military discharges. The Probate Judge presides over all probate court hearings for Probate of Wills, Administrations, Conservators, Guardianships, Adoptions, Legitimations, Name changes, Condemnations, Mental Commitment hearings, and performs marriage ceremonies. The office of the probate judge is the county office where the
    most significant genealogical records are created and maintained
    in Alabama. A variety of records are housed in this office.

    • Address: P O Box 5625, Montgomery, AL 36103
    • Phone: (334) 206-5418
    • Search the Montgomery County Probate Records
    • Marriage Records: 1817 (Marriages issued prior to 1936)
    • Probate Records: 1819
    • Land Records: 1819
  • Montgomery County Revenue Commissioner’s Officemaintains County tax records. These records are usually arranged by legal description and are not indexed.
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  • Montgomery County Health Department has Birth Records from 1908, Death records from 1908 . You may go to any county health departmentin the State of Alabama to obtain a certificates can be issued while you wait.

Alabama Historical Records – Databases include Alabama Court, Land, Wills & Financial Records; Alabama Birth, Marriage & Death Records; Alabama Voter Lists & Census Records; Alabama Immigration & Emigration Records; Alabama Obituary Records; Alabama Military Records; Alabama Family Tree Records; Alabama Pictures; Alabama Stories, Memories & Histories; Alabama Directories & Member Lists and much more….
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Montgomery County Genealogy Links

The following are links to Genealogy, Records and Resources relating to Montgomery County. These genealogy links fall into 3 categories: Commercial Sites, Personal Sites or Organization Sites. Some are have free access some require a payment.  This is just a list that has been collected or submitted. I do not endorse or promote one genealogy site above another. Feel free to submit your own favorite genealogy or family history related sites.

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