I am going to be in Pleasant Grove and Bessemer and Collinsville.
In a message dated 9/23/2006 8:20:20 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: would venture into actual Birmingham from Pleasant Grove and Bessemer. Are you going to be in Pleasant Grove?
The genealogy room in the OLD library building. If one parks in the library lot, there is a crosswalk to the other building. Go to third floor of the main library, use the crosswalk, which takes one to the second floor of the old building [called the Linn-Henley Building]. The mircorfilm department is on second, along with some other research materials. The main part of the genealogy resources are on first floor. The Jefferson Co Archives is in the basement of the old library building. The Archives is open only during courthouse hours. There usually is a guard on duty in the parking lot of the main library. Hope this helps, Melba Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Using a laptop at the Birmingham library > The genealogy room is at the main library? My family is aghast that I > would venture into actual Birmingham from Pleasant Grove and Bessemer.
In a message dated 9/23/2006 2:17:11 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: The genealogy room is at the main library? My family is aghast that I would venture into actual Birmingham from Pleasant Grove and Bessemer. You can enter the genealogy building either by parking in the main library parking lot and going up to the third floor and walk across the skywalk in the Southern History Building ( 2 floors of documents), or you can park on the street on Park Place between the Tutwiler and the side of the Southern History Building and enter from the Linn Park entrance. There are meters but I don't think you have to feed them on weekends. Anyway, the building is across 21st street from the main library.
Thanks. In this case, we're talking about my mother's grandparents and my mother lived on the same piece of property, plus there are many people who knew them who are still alive so we're sure we have the right names. No one ever heard them say they ran off to get married or any such thing. We just can't find any evidence of a marriage. They were relatively proper church-going people, so we figure they did actually get married. I even have a picture which was supposedly taken on their wedding day. Their first child was born in February 1901, so we figure the marriage was 1899-1900, even if she was expecting when they were married. There was no objection to their marriage by either family that anyone has ever heard. In 1900 his father was a coal miner in Jefferson County, living somewhere in the vicinity of Pleasant Grove and her father was a farmer living in the same area. The Caldwell family had been in Jefferson County since 1830. Her family had lived in Jackson County earlier, but had been in Jefferson County since sometime between 1887, when we know their last child was born in Jackson County and 1900, when her father is in the census in Jefferson County. I'm also going to check Jackson County while I am there. Maybe she had not been in Jefferson County long when they were married and returned to Jackson County where the Wheelers were numerous for her marriage. It's just one of those little loose ends, like who Mary Elizabeth Jones, Julia Ida's mother, really was and where her people came from. I want to find her death certificate and see what is says. I know she was born 22 Nov 1844 on Coon Creek in Jackson County and I know she died 04 July 1936 in Pleasant Grove in Jefferson County. I have names for her parents, but those names don't appear in a census record anywhere I can find. Her father is supposed to have been Willis Mason Jones of Virginia, and one of Ben and Julie Caldwell's sons was named after him, so that would seem to be a reasonably correct name. Her mother was supposed to be Ollie Armbruster. So, you might think you would find them near Coon Creek in the 1850 census, so but so far, there is no sign of them.
all courthouses are closed on the week-end and if a holiday falls on the week-end , it takes either the saturday or monday which ever is closest to the holiday ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:51 AM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Best place to go for research? | In a message dated 9/21/2006 4:50:57 PM Central Standard Time, | [email protected] writes: | | > I will be in Birmingham for a family reunion for a weekend and a Monday. | > I | > want to research Jefferson County death certificates and marriages. Where | > is | > the best place for me to go, since I have so little time? | > | > Rae | > grannyandpopacaldwell.com | > | I was in Bibb County, AL on a weekend trip one time and had to cancel a trip | to the courthouse. It was closed. So you might want to make sure to check the | schedules to see if anything is open before you make plans to go there. In my | case, I substituted going to the courthouse with going to a cemetery - made a | video of the cemetery so it all worked out anyway. | | Barry Jernigan | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969 Record about Elijah Hudson Name: Elijah Hudson Spouse: Julia A Wheeler Marriage Date: 10 Oct 1852 County: Macon State: Alabama Performed by Name: M S Kelton Source Information: Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research ------------------------------------ Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969 Record about Alex Wallace Name: Alex Wallace Spouse: Julia A Wheeler Marriage Date: 29 Dec 1888 County: Lamar State: Alabama Performed By Title: Justice of the Peace Performed by Name: John Webb Source Information: Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Best place to go for research? | Marriage is Benjamin Alexander Caldwell and Julia Ida Wheeler | | I want to try to find death certificates on a long list of people -- I | understand those are readily online for a lot of counties | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
The genealogy room is at the main library? My family is aghast that I would venture into actual Birmingham from Pleasant Grove and Bessemer.
| | The Cullman Times | Published on: 01-14-2005 | | Teresa Lynn Seagle | | Graveside services for Teresa Lynn Seagle, 42, of Cullman will be at 1 p.m. | Friday, Jan. 14, 2005, at Jefferson Memorial Gardens in Trussville, Fr. | William Lucas officiating. | | Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. | | Mrs. Seagle died Tuesday, Jan. 11. She was an artist and a member of Holy | Infant of Prague in Trussville. She was a loving wife and mother. | | Survivors include her husband, John Seagle of Cullman; two daughters, | Christina Lynn and Shenna Elizabeth; her mother, Betty Jean Smith of Athens, | Tenn.; a sister, Lori Jean Stevenson of Athens, Tenn.; a brother, Dale Smith | of Athens, Tenn.; and numerous family members and friends. | | The family requests memorials may be made to the Teresa Lynn Seagle Fund, | Compass Bank, 1715 Second Avenue Southwest, Cullman, AL 35055. | | Visitation and the Rosary were Thursday evening. | |
The Cullman Times Published on: 01-14-2005 Kevin Dwaine Young Kevin Dwaine Young, 36, of Cullman passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2005, at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham. Kevin is survived by his mother, Mary Sellers of Cullman; his father, Eddie Lee Young Jr. of North Carolina; a brother, Curt Young and his wife, Kim, and their two daughters, Abby and Sadie, all of Cullman; a sister, Edye Parrish of Missouri; and his grandparents, Catherine Young and Allene Sellers, both of North Carolina. In lieu of flowers, the family requests charitable donations be made to Kevin's memory.
Yes it does. I had only 2 days to spend there, and wish I had more. Sandi in NM Researching: Abrignano, Ampola, Anastasia, Atwater, Audigier, Barbera, Bonafede, Colicchia, Cordell, Crozier, Dablemont, Doubleman, Fleming, Lamia, Marino, Mannone, Martinciglio, Paladino, Pearsall, Puleo, Polizzi, Pulizzi, Reano, Reed, Saladino, Sammartano, Sorrentino, Valenti, Wadkins, Zito ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret L Smith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 10:18 AM Subject: [ALJEFFER] Using a laptop at the Birmingham library > The genealogy room at the library has tables with places to plug in your > laptop. It's a great place to work! And the staff are most helpful. > > Margaret Lindsey Smith, Colorado > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >
The genealogy room at the library has tables with places to plug in your laptop. It's a great place to work! And the staff are most helpful. Margaret Lindsey Smith, Colorado
If you are looking for marriage licenses, the best places to go are the Linn-Henley Research Library across from the B'ham Public Library or the courthouse. The courthouse is open Monday-Friday from 8:00 - 5:00 unless it's a holiday. The Library is open 7 days a week (unless it's a holiday weekend). It's open 2:00 -6:00 p.m. on Sunday. The Library has marriage records on microfilm. You can look at the actual license in books at the courthouse. Note: If your family married in Jefferson County, there are 2 courthouses where marriage records are kept...one in north B'ham (the main courthouse) and one in Bessemer. For death certificates, the best place to go is Wallace State Community College in Hanceville (Cullman County). They have Alabama death certificates on microfilm from 1908-1972. 1908 - 1959 are indexed. 1960-1972 are NOT indexed. It costs 25 cents for every copy you make. You can go to the Jefferson County Health Dept. and get them to look for death certificates, but they won't let you look at them yourself. They do the search...and it costs $12 for every search...whether they find it or not. You can also request death certificates through the Health Dept. from Montgomery (for $12 each). Hope this helps. Kim Self Hughes --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates.
Microfilm at the Birmingham Public Library have marriage records to about 1900. There is an index, 1818-1940 at the court house. The marriage books are at the court house. Melba Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Best place to go for research? >I need marriages about 1900 and deaths 1920-1980
I can battery for a couple of hours -- that should be plenty
In a message dated 9/22/2006 5:43:23 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Is there any problem with labtop going in library? I think I've seen people with laptops in there. Will you be using it with battery? You could just call them and ask.
Is there any problem with labtop going in library?
Marriage is Benjamin Alexander Caldwell and Julia Ida Wheeler I want to try to find death certificates on a long list of people -- I understand those are readily online for a lot of counties
what name ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Best place to go for research? |I need marriages about 1900 and deaths 1920-1980 | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |
In a message dated 9/22/2006 11:30:45 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I need marriages about 1900 and deaths 1920-1980 Should be able to find some of the marriages at the library, but best bet might be courthouse. Deaths, I still say, you will find at Health Dept.