Mobile County, Alabama Genealogy

Guide to Mobile County, Alabama ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Description
Mobile County was named for the indigenous Maubila tribe. The county is located in the southwestern area of the state.

County Courthouse
Mobile County Courthouse 205 Government Plaza #913 Mobile, Al 36644-2936 Phone: 251-574-8786 Mobile County Website Probate Judge has marriage records from 1813 Probate Records from 1812 and land records from 1813

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator.

Biographies

 * Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical. Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land, 1888. Pg. 238. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Internet Archive, HathiTrust.
 * Mobile County Biographies at USGenWeb Archives Project

Census Records
State Census


 * 1855   at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1866  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1907, 1921, 1927  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Church Records

 * 1831-1994  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Church Records (Rural) List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places

Notre Dame du Fort Conde de la Mobile, Mobile


 * 1704-1764 - Notre Dame du Fort Conde de la Mobile, Mobile Baptism Index 1704-1764. Batch at


 * 1704-1764 - Notre Dame du Fort Conde de la Mobile, Mobile Marriage Index 1704-1764. Batch at FamilySearch

Court Records

 * 1715-1865 (*); Probate, Circuit, County, and Ophans' Court, Commissioner of Roads at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1806-1943 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1818-1840 (*); Orphans' and County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1833-1907 (*); Circuit Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1840-1907 (*); City Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1847-1869 (*); Admiralty Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * (*); Works Progress Administration at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images

Directories

 * 1837 Mobile Directory, 1837. 1837. Mobile: H.M. McGuire and T.C. Fay. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library


 * 1844 Wood's Mobile Directory, 1844 in (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images 332-396

Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups
African American
 * 1865-1872   at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only
 * 1865-1930s  in "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950," at FamilySearch.org (skips books 5 and 38)
 * 1865-1891  Mobile County Marriage Books 1-10 Index 1865-1891 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch
 * Africantown, U.S.A. A Pictorial History of Plateau and Magazine Point (Mobile County) Alabama / [story narrative, John H. Smith]. - Mobile, Ala: American Ethnic Science Society, c. 198165 p.: ill.F334.M6 A6 1981

Funeral Homes

 * Ascension Funeral Home and Crematory in Mobile
 * Christian Benevolent Funeral Home in Mobile
 * Community Mortuary in Mobile
 * Cottage Hill Memorial Funeral Home in Mobile
 * Forest Lawn Funeral Home in Saraland
 * Freeman Funeral Home in Citronelle
 * Kenmar Family Funeral Home in Bayou La Batre and Mobile
 * Legacy Funeral Home in Mobile
 * Memorial Funeral Home in Prichard
 * Mobile Funeral Home and Crematory in Mobile
 * Mobile Memorial Gardens Funeral Home in Mobile
 * Radney Funeral Home in Mobile
 * Serenity Funeral Home in Theodore
 * Valhalla Memorial Funeral Home in Eight Mile

Land and Property Records
Online Land Indexes and Records
 * Dates Vary United States Wills and Deeds Experimental Search at FamilySearch - incomplete index and images, counties and dates vary

Local Histories

 * Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study. By Peter J. Hamilton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. Online at: Ancestry ($).
 * Mobile of the Five Flags. By Peter J. Hamilton. Mobile, AL: Gill Printing Co., 1913. Online at: Ancestry ($).
 * The Founding of Mobile, 1702-1718: Studies in the History of the First Capital of the Province of Louisiana. By Peter J. Hamilton, LLD. Monroe: Commercial Printing Co., 1911. Online at: Ancestry ($).
 * Bi-centennial Celebration, May 26-28, 1911, of the Founding of Mobile by Jean Baptiste de Bienville, 1711. Mobile: Commercial Printing Co., 1912. Online at: Ancestry ($).
 * Highlights of 75 Years in Mobile. By C.E. Matthews. Mobile: Gill Printing and Stationary Co., 1940. Online at: Ancestry ($).
 * Mobile: Fact and Tradition, Noteworthy People and Events. By Erwin Craighead. Mobile, Ala.: Powers Printing Co., 1930. Online at: Ancestry ($).
 * Remember Mobile. By Caldwell Delaney. Mobile, Ala: Gill Printing and Stationary Co., 1948. Online at: Ancestry ($).

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Maps of Alabama (1799-1980)
 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places
 * Alabama Maps and Blueprints Collection at Alabama Department of Archives and History – maps can be browsed by location or subject

Military Records
Multiple Wars
 * ca.1918-ca.1962  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Civil War
 * 1861-1865  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index, images at partner site
 * 1861-1865  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index, images at partner site
 * 1861-1865 Civil War Service Database at Alabama Department of Archives and History - index
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1871-1880  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1880-1930  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1907, 1921, 1927  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images


 * - 1st Battalion, Alabama Artillery, Company A
 * - 1st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company D (Red Eagles)
 * - 2nd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company F, G, H and I
 * - 3rd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company A "Mobile Cadets
 * - 3rd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company B "Gulf City Guards"
 * - 3rd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company E "Washington Light Infantry"
 * - 3rd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company K "Mobile Rifles"
 * - 3rd Regiment, Alabama Cavalry, Company E, Mobile Humphries Dragoons [formerly Co. "D", Wirt Adams' Cavalry]
 * - 8th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company C "Alex Stephens' Guards"
 * - 8th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company E "Hamp Smith Rifles"
 * - 8th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company G "German Fusileers
 * - 8th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company H "Mobile Independent Scouts"
 * - 8th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company I "Emerald Guards"
 * - 9th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company A "Beauregard Rifles"
 * - 12th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company A "Lafayette Guards"
 * - 12th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company C "Independent Rifles
 * - 12th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company I "Southern Foresters"
 * - 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company A "Washington Light Infantry"
 * - 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company D "Mobile Battle Guards"
 * - 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company E "Chamberlain Rifles and Woodruff Rifles"
 * - 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company G "Spanish Guards and Swanson Guards, No. 1
 * - 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company H "Swanson Guards, No. 2 and French Guards"
 * - 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company I "Independence Rifles and United Rangers"
 * - 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company K "Mobile Cadets"
 * - 22nd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company H "Sam Cooper Rifles"
 * - 24th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company A "Washington Guards"
 * - 24th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company B "Emmett Guards"
 * - 24th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company D "Beulah Guards"
 * - 24th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company F "Alabama Guards"
 * - 24th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company G
 * - 24th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company I "Confederate Guards"
 * - 32nd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company B, C, F, I and K
 * - 36th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company E
 * - 38th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company G and K
 * - 40th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company F, H, I and K
 * - 42nd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company I
 * - 43rd Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company F
 * - 51st Regiment, Alabama Partisan Rangers, Company K


 * Mobile Confederates From Shiloh to Spanish Fort: The Story of the 21st Alabama Infantry Volunteers. 2012. by Arthur E. Green. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc. Online at: HathiTrust — index & images
 * Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Civil War Battle The following Civil War Battle was fought in Mobile County.
 * August 2-23, 1864 - Mobile Bay, also known as Passing of Forts Morgan and Gaines (partly fought in Baldwin County).
 * Battles of the American Civil War maps - filter by state or by battle name.

World War I
 * 1917-1919  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1917-1918 Alabama World War I Service Records at Alabama Department of Archives and History - alpha index by name and images
 * 1917-1918 Alabama World War I Gold Star Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History - alpha index by name and images me and images

World War II
 * 1940-1945  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1940-1966  Alabama Active Military Service Reports at Alabama Department of Archives and History - alpha index by name and images

Newspapers

 * Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers at Alabama Department of Archives and History
 * Alabama Online Historical Newspapers - identifies historical archived and digitized newspapers available online on both and pay-to-access websites.
 * 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)

Other Records
Voter Registration
 * 1834-1981  at FamilySearch- How to Use this Collection; index and some images

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records
 * 1753–1999 Alabama Wills and Probate Records 1753-1999 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1809-1985 (*) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images
 * 1812-1825 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1812-1837 Images of Wills at Southeastern Genealogy ($)
 * 1813-1961 (*); Probate and Orphans' Courts at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1813-1964 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1814-1930 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1822-1828 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1830-1976 (*) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1837-1930 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1850-1932 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1851-1872 (*); Circuit Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1858-1905 (*); Probate Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1889 (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * Dates Vary United States Wills and Deeds Experimental Search at FamilySearch - incomplete index and images, counties and dates vary

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Tax Records

 * 1814, courtesy: FamilySearche. (browse under Hancock, Jackson, Mobile)
 * 1816-1817, courtesy: FamilySearch
 * 1816  Inhabitants of Alabama in 1816. Broken Arrow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1955. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library. Includes Mobile County.
 * 1865-1866 U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 at Ancestry ($). Autauga County is in District 2.

Birth

 * 1881-1930
 * 1881-1930  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1881-1930  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and some images

Marriage

 * 1733-2013 Alabama, United States Marriages at Findmypast ($)
 * 1800-1969 Alabama, U.S., Marriage Index, 1800-1969 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1802-1825 Alabama, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1825 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1809-1920 Alabama, U.S., Compiled Marriages from Selected Counties, 1809-1920 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1809-1950  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and some images
 * 1816-1957  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1818-1936  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1823-1891 Mobile County Marriage Books 1-28 Index 1823-1891 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch

Death

 * 1881-1952  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1881-1974 Alabama, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1908-1959 Alabama, U.S., Death Index, 1908-1959 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1908-1974  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Archives
Alabama Department of Archives and History 624 Washington Ave PO Box 300100 Montgomery, AL 36104 Phone: 334-242-4435 Email: [mailto:mark.palmer@archives.alabama.gov mark.palmer@archives.alabama.gov] Website Facebook Mobile County Probate Court Archives Mobile County Government Center Annex 151 Government Street PO Box 7 Mobile, AL 36601 Phone: 251-574-6070 Email: [mailto:probatecourt@probate.mobilecountyal.gov probatecourt@probate.mobilecountyal.gov] Website Mobile Municipal Archives 457 Church St PO Box 1827 Mobile, AL 36633 Phone: 251-208-7740 Email: [mailto:archives@cityofmobile.org archives@cityofmobile.org] Website

FamilySearch Centers

 * Mobile Alabama FamilySearch Center
 * Daphne Alabama FamilySearch Center
 * Mobile Public Library - multiple locations - an affiliate library

Libraries
Mobile Public Library Local History Dept. 700 Government Street Mobile, AL 36602-1403 Phone: 251-340-1458 Email: [mailto:info@mplonline.org info@mplonline.org] Website Facebook Collections include local histories, newspaper clippings, city directories, censuses, probate index, military records, and more.

Museums
History Museum of Mobile 111 South Royal St PO Box 2068 Mobile, AL 36652 Phone: 251-208-7569 Email: [mailto:museumrelations@historymuseumofmobile.com museumrelations@historymuseumofmobile.com] Website Facebook

Societies
Historic Mobile Preservation Society 300 Oakleigh Place PO Box 6711 Mobile, AL 36604 Phone: 251-432-1281 Email: [mailto:hmps@bellsouth.net hmps@bellsouth.net] Website Facebook Mobile Genealogical Society, Inc 5555 Grelot Road Mobile, AL 36609 PO Box 364 Saraland, AL 36571 Email: [mailto:mgs@mobileroots.org mgs@mobileroots.org] Facebook

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * USGenWeb Archives Project. Record transcriptions from Bibles, obituaries, court records and more.
 * Mobile County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.