Marshall County, Alabama Genealogy

United States   Alabama    |Marshall County

County Courthouse
Marshall County Courthouse 424 Blount Avenue Guntersville, AL 35976 Phone: (256) 571-7786

Probate Judge has marriage, probate and land records from 1836 and birth and death records from 1920

Parent County
1836--Marshall County was created 9 January 1836 from Blount and Jackson Counties and the Cherokee Cession. County seat: Guntersville

Neighboring Counties

 * Blount
 * Cullman
 * De Kalb
 * Etowah
 * Jackson
 * Madison
 * Morgan

Biography

 * Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical. Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land, 1888. Digital version at . begins on page 58.

Cemeteries

 * Nixon's Chapel Cemetery, Horton BillionGraves
 * Douthat, James L. Guntersville Reservoir Cemeteries. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press. Free surname index and publisher's bookstore at Mountain Press.
 * Douthat, James L. Wheeler Reservoir Cemeteries. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press. Free surname index and publisher's bookstore at Mountain Press.

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

Newspapers
Abstracts of The Marshall County News (1858), The Tennessee Valley (1856), The Marshall Eagle (1853), The Albertville Banner (1919), and The Albertville Herald (1936) were published in:


 * 1853-1858, 1919, 1936 - Caver, Larry E. Abstracts from Alabama Newspapers, Volume II: Limestone County, Madison County, Marshall County, Jackson County. Carrollton, Miss.: Pioneer Publishing Co., 2007. Digital version at - free.

Probate Records

 * 1830-1976 - Probate Records, 1830-1976 at  - free.

Taxation

 * 1865-1866 - U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 at Ancestry ($). Marshall County is in District 3.

Birth

 * 1881-1930 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Marriage

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


 * 1830s–1840s Marshall County Marriages at ALGenWeb - free

Death

 * 1881-1952 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection


 * 1908-1974 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Voting Registers
Alabama Voting Registers for 1867 are available online at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Marshall County has two books:


 * Book 1
 * Book 2

Family History Center

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Guntersville Alabama
 * Rt 2 &amp; Spring Creek Rd Guntersville, Marshall, Alabama, United States Phone: 256-582-6861 Hours: Th 10am-1pm; W 6:30pm-8pm Closed: Thanksgiving and Christmas

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.
 * Marshall County ALGenWeb ~ record transcriptions and information pertinent to the county.
 * Marshall County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Marshall County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)