Jefferson County, Alabama Genealogy

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Parent County
1819--Jefferson County was created 13 December 1819 from Blount County. County seat: Birmingham

Record Loss
1870 -- Courthouse burned and many records were damaged.

For further information on researching in burned counties, see the following article on the Burned Counties Research

and also comparable article by Michael John Neill at the Ancestry.com blog site.

Cities
Adamsville | Bessemer | Birmingham | Brighton | Center Point | Clay | Fairfield | Fultondale | Gardendale | Graysville | Helena | Homewood | Hoover | Hueytown | Irondale | Leeds | Lipscomb | Midfield | Mountain Brook | Pinson | Pleasant Grove | Sumiton | Tarrant | Trussville | Vestavia Hills | Warrior

Towns
Argo | Brookside | Cardiff | County Line | Kimberly | Maytown | McCalla | Morris | Mulga | North Johns | Sylvan Springs | Trafford | West Jefferson

Census Designations
Chalkville | Concord | Edgewater | Forestdale | Grayson Valley | McDonald Chapel | Minor | Mount Olive | Rock Creek

Neighboring Counties
Bibb | Blount | Saint Clair | Shelby | Tuscaloosa | Walker

Cemeteries

 * Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery Interments
 * Red Mountain Cemetery Record of Interments, 1888-1906

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Birmingham
 * McCalla

Newspapers

 * Obituary Index : Birmingham Area Newspapers (Birmingham News, May 1929 - January 1980;  Birminham World, September 1940 - December 1996; Methodist Christian Advocate / Alabama Christian Advocate, January 1929 - December 1979; Shelby County Reporter, January 1932 - December 1979)
 * Alabama Citizen - full-text digital issues in Google News Archive; covers 1913-1918

Yearbooks

 * Birmingham Southern College: 1914-2008 (via the Internet Archive)
 * Howard College Student Catalogs (formerly Samford College): 1847-1908 (via the Internet Archive)

Societies and Libraries
Genealogy Southern History Department Birmingham Public Library 2100 Park Place Birmingham, AL 35203

Family History Center
Bessemer Alabama Family History Center

831 Briarwood Dr Bessemer, Jefferson, Alabama, United States Phone: 205-425-7928

Birmingham Alabama Family History Center

2780 Altadena Rd Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States Phone: 205-967-7279

Birmingham 2nd Alabama Family History Center

Leeds Alabama 1101 Rockhampton St NE Leeds, Jefferson, Alabama, United States

Web Sites

 * Jefferson County, ALGenWeb - part of the USGenWeb Project
 * Jefferson County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Jefferson County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)