Dale County, Alabama Genealogy

United States   Alabama    |Dale County

County Courthouse
Dale County Courthouse Court Square Ozark, AL 36360, Phone:(334) 774-5003

Probate Judge has marriage and probate records from 1884 and land records; Clerk Circuit Court has court records and divorce records from 1885 County Health Department has birth records

Parent County
1824--Dale County was created 22 December 1824 from Covington, Henry and Pike Counties. County seat: Ozark

Boundary Changes
1869 and 1884 -- Courthouse burned and many records were damaged.

For further information on researching in burned counties, see the following:

Burned Counties Research

http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=2424

Neighboring Counties
Barbour Coffee Geneva Henry Houston Pike

Biographies

 * Dale County Biographies at The USGenWeb Archives Project - free.

Cemeteries

 * Antioch Cemetery
 * Ariton Cemetery
 * Asbury Cemetery
 * Averett Cemetery
 * Beersheba Cemetery
 * Beulah Cemetery
 * Browns Cemetery
 * Byrd Cemetery
 * Carrin (AKA Corinth) Cemetery
 * Center Ridge Cemetery
 * Carroll Cemetery, Ozark
 * Cedar Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
 * Clay Cemetery
 * Claybank Church Cemetery
 * Clay Hill Cemetery
 * Daleville City Cemetery
 * Dean Church Cemetery
 * Dykes Cemetery
 * Ebenezer Cemetery
 * Friendship AME Church Cemetery
 * Haw Ridge Cemetery
 * Jellico Community Cemetery, Houston County
 * Jones Cemetery
 * Lee Cemetery
 * Mabson Cemetery
 * Macedonia Cemetery
 * Morning View Cemetery
 * Mount Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery
 * Mount Enon Cemetery
 * Mount Liberty Cemetery (AKA Level Plains Baptist Church Cemetery)
 * Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery
 * Mount Olive Cemetery
 * Mount Pleasant Cemetery (AKA Wiggins Church Cemetery)
 * New Hope Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery
 * New Summer Hill Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Daleville
 * Newton City Cemetery
 * Old Bell Cemetery (AKA McCrary Cemetery)
 * Old Daleville City Cemetery (AKA Snell Cemetery)
 * Old Magnolia Cemetery
 * Old Mount Pisgah Cemetery
 * Old Salem Cemetery
 * Old Zion Cemetery (AME Zion Church, Ozark)
 * Pinckard Memorial Cemetery#1
 * Pinckard Memorial Cemetery#2
 * Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Marley Mill
 * Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery, Arguta
 * Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church Cemetery
 * Post Oak Cemetery
 * Shiloh Cemetery
 * Sylvia Grove Cemetery
 * Union Cemetery, Ozark
 * West View Cemetery, Ozark
 * Woodlawn Memorial Garden Cemetery (partial)

Additional Dale County cemeteries are included in Alabama Cemetery Records at FamilySearch Books Online - free.

Methodist

 * Wells, Glenn L. History of the First United Methodist Church of Ozark, Alabama. Ozark, Ala.: The Church?, 1973. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Land and Property
To place a grant or deed on a map within context of see:


 * Boyd, Gregory A. Family Maps of Dale County, Alabama: with Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More. Norman, Okla.: Arphax Pub. Co., 2007. This is a definitive work and can be used as an index to land grants. Digital version at HistoryGeo.com ($). Website includes free surname index..

Local Histories

 * Hayes, Eustus Howard. Miscellaneous Records, Dale County, Alabama. n.d. Digital version at - free.

Birth

 * 1881-1930 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Marriage

 * 1816-1957 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection. Incomplete.

Death

 * 1881-1952 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection


 * 1908-1974 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Vital Record Substitutes
A free collection of obituaries and death notices from various funeral homes in the Dale County area has been put together by GenealogyBuffs.com.


 * Dale County, Alabama Obituary and Death Notices Collection

Voting Registers
Alabama Voting Registers for 1867 are available online at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Dale County has one book.

Family History Center

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Dothan Alabama
 * 3199 Ross Clark Cir NW Dothan, Dale/Houston/Henry/Geneva, Alabama, United States Phone: 334-793-7425 Hours: T 8:30-11:30pm, 1:30pm-4pm; T-Th 6:30pm-8:30pm; Th 9am-12pm, 1pm-3:30pm
 * Enterprise Alabama
 * 110 Shell Field Rd Enterprise, Coffee, Dale, Houston, Geneva, Alabama, United States Phone: 334-347-3631 Hours: Tues &amp; Thurs 10 am -2pm Wed 4pm-8pm; other times by appt. Closures: Closed on Holidays


 * Ozark Alabama
 * Mixon School Rd Ozark, Dale, Alabama, United States Phone: 334-774-9405 Hours: T-Th 6pm-8pm

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * USGenWeb Archives Project~ contains record transcriptions from Bibles, obituaries, court records and more.
 * Dale County ALGenWeb ~ record transcriptions and information pertinent to the county.
 * Dale County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Dale County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)