Alabama Vital Records: Difference between revisions

Alabama Vital Records include birth, marriage, divorce, and death records.  Documents recording these important events are commonly referred to as ''"vital records". '' A copy or extract of the original record may be purchased from the [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/alabama.htm Alabama Vital Records State Department of Health] or the appropriate County Clerk's offices. [[Locating United States Vital Records|United States Vital Records]] offers an overview of vital records in the United States.  

African-American research falls into two periods: pre- and post-Civil War. Post-Civil War research consists of the same record used to research non–African-Americans. Pre-Civil War research consists of slave importation declarations, plantation records, emancipation records, apprenticeship bonds for freedmen, Alabama hiring practices, census records, plantation owners’ family records, church and cemetery records, military records, and Alabama court records.