Alabama State Vital Records Office Information
Index to Alabama County Vital Records Offices
Starting Your Family Tree with Alabama Vital Records You’ve decided that it’s time to get started on your family tree – good for you! Many times people begin to start thinking about putting together a family tree when they get older or when they start a family. They realize that they want their family members to know where they came from, and often the person themselves is curious about where they came from. It can be extremely intimidating to think about starting a family tree because, quite honestly, a lot of work can go into making one. But if you find the right websites to help you, and if you actually learn about your family from the research, the time you spend doing it can be a joy instead of being torture.
Starting Your Records
Before you begin looking for any Alabama vital records, you should start by first getting all of the information about your family as it currently exists. Begin by writing down your name and, if you have a spouse, their full name as well. If you have any children write them down underneath your name and the dates when they were born as well. Then move on to your parents. Now here’s where it gets tricky: you’ll need to start by writing about just one side of the family at a time. If you write about both sides you’ll quickly find that you get confused about who is who. Instead pick a side, such as your mother’s side or your father’s side, and start filling in information.
You’ll also have to decide if you want to write about all of the siblings your family has or if you just want to list them under the names of the parents. If you write about every siblings and follow each and every family tree, you may find that you’ve taken on more than you can handle. Instead try just writing about the basic people at first.
Now it’s time to start digging up some records to help you. Getting things like Alabama birth certificates and Alabama death records is not only a great way to keep organized, but it can also help you to make your tree a bit special. How many family trees do you know of that have birth and death certificates attached to them? Both of these types of documents can be a great way to embellish your family tree.
But how can you find things like Alabama birth certificates and Alabama death records? All Alabama vital records are kept in one location: the vital records location. This is actually a good thing for anyone who is trying to access the records because all you have to do is to go online to the right website and all of these public records will be at your fingertips in an instant. This makes creating your own family tree much easier than you may believe, so what are you waiting for? Get started building your family tree!
Searchable Databases and other Helpful Links- Alabama USGenWeb Project
genealogical gateway to the state and counties - Search Alabama Databases Online
Search for birth, marriage, census, death, immigration, naturalization, military records and more at Ancestry - Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Alabama
your genealogy starting point online - Alabama Census Records at CensusFinder
features a directory of census records available online for Alabama - Alabama, County Marriage Records, 1805-1967
- Alabama, Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942
- Alabama, Marriage Index, 1800-1969
- Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
- Alabama, Death Index, 1908-1959
- Alabama, Marriage Indexes, 1814-1935
- Alabama Divorce Index, 1950-1959
- Alabama, Marriages, Deaths, Wills, Court, and Other Records, 1784-1920
- Marriages of Alabama Index: The Grooms
user submitted marriages for Alabama - USGenWeb - Alabama Marriage Project
Marriage Applications and other Marriage Records - Alabama Genealogy and Family History Resources
search record collections, history and genealogy resources for Alabama - Search the Social Security Death Index
- Search for Alabama birth, death and marriage records online
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