Vicki's Close Cousins, Long Lost Cousins, Kissing Cousins, Distant Cousins, Great-Great and more Great Grandparents, In-laws, Out-laws, and Allied Lines. That's a cameo of great great Grandpa Simon Prince to the left, born in 1850.
Maps of all kinds can be useful tools in historical and genealogical research. Learn about the world of online maps and how they can fit into your research. Registration required for online attendance only.
Birmingham Public Library - Downtown, Computer Lab 4th Floor
After several years of this site being broken, it has been resurrected from the dead, with the help of some wonderful tech support people from the Backdrop CMS group. I thought it was gone forever, because the Drupal 6 platform it was on quit working about 2012. We had recently completed a massive conversion of another site, and did not have the remaining fortitude to convert this one, which would have taken 2-3 months of 15+ hour days, and writing custom conversion code. Then my son, the programming guru, died in 2017, and I lost my only help.
I bought the book "A Host of Huffstutlers and Huffstetlers, Huffsticklers, Huffstedlers" by Faryl I.
The annual Prince/ Vaughn reunion will be held Saturday, September 14, 2024 at Palisades Park, near Oneonta, Alabama. This reunion started out many years ago as the Prince Reunion, when the descendants of Simon Peter Prince decided to get together to have fun each year. There were so many intermarriages with the Vaughn family, over time it morphed into the Prince/ Vaughn Reunion. Then some of us started working on our genealogy, and wanted to meet some of our more distant relatives who might be able to fill in some giant holes in our research. Most of the attendees can trace their linea
The short version of "9 Minutes of Peace". Should play in the browser, it's not a download.
Some of my favorite creek pictures below.
After 72 years, we will finally see the 1940 federal census for the United States on April 2, 2012. Unlike other census years, this census will not be on microfilm. For the first time, the census has been digitized, and will appear on the NARA website, available free to all. Unfortunately, there will not be a name index. Until such indexes are created, one must know the Enumeration District, then search through that district for the names.
The annual Prince/ Vaughn reunion will be held Saturday, September 10, 2011 at Palasades Park, near Oneonta, Alabama. This reunion started out many years ago as the Prince Reunion, when the descendants of Simon Peter Prince decided to get together to have fun each year. There were so many intermarriages with the Vaughn family, over time it morphed into the Prince/ Vaughn Reunion. Then some of us started working on our genealogy, and wanted to meet some of our more distant relatives who might be able to fill in some giant holes in our research. Most of the attendees c
Mar 2011. This new search engine is designed specifically for searching free genealogy sites, including, according to their web page "genealogy message boards, family trees, state and local historical societies, the Library of Congress, National Archives, Ellis Island, Find A Grave, the Internet Archive, various U.S. state archives, and many tens of thousands of genealogy sites built by individuals". Sounds like a great new resource to try, here's the link:
The Birmingham-Jefferson History Museum is now located in downtown Birmingham, in the Young & Vann Building. More specifically it is at 1731 First Avenue North, across the street from Birmingham Police Headquarters. There is plenty of parking in a lot on the west side of the building. It is a work in progress, and it will take time to set up artifacts and displays.
This document describes the life of the wives of plantation owners, with their constant need to help in the fields, make clothes for both blacks and whites, keep everyone fed, and run the plantation with the help of overseers and slaves when their husbands were traveling. There is mention of Williamson Hawkins and his wife Betsy on page 98, with footnotes indicating manuscripts available at Samford and the Birmingham Public Library, Clement Comer Clay, Sr (served as governor of Alabama) and his wife Susanna on page 99, and Henry Watson of Greensboro and his wife Sophia on page 99.
