Alabama Vital Records: Difference between revisions

[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Alabama_Minorities African-American research] in [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Portal:Alabama Alabama] falls into two periods: pre- and post-Civil War. Post-Civil War research consists of the same record used to research non-African-Americans. [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/African_American_Slavery_and_Bondage Pre-Civil War slavery research] consists of '''slave importation declarations''', '''plantation records''', '''emancipation records''', '''apprenticeship bonds for freedmen''', [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Alabama_Census census records], plantation owners’ family records, [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Alabama_Church_Records church] records, cemetery records, [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Alabama_Military_Records military records], probate and court records.  

When researching [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Indians_of_Alabama Alabama Indians], it is important to identify the tribe to which an ancestor may have have belonged. Most [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Portal:Indians_of_North_America North American Indian] records are arranged either by tribal name or by locality of residence.