No Images? Click here Hi, It's truly amazing. Two weeks ago we achieved our first goal of 100 members and now we are over half way to our 2nd goal of 250 members! Thank you so much for your wonderful support. Once we reach 250 members, our best selling Ebook Alabama Footprints: Exploration will be given away to all 250 members. Share this newsletter with your family and friends so they can become one of the first 250 members to receive the second FREE Ebook! Have you downloaded Where Do I Start hints tips beginning genealogists with online-resources, from the first giveaway Ebook giveaway yet? The opportunity for all charter members to download it will close soon, and then only $10+ patron members can download it. Click on this link to download the book today! https://www.patreon.com/posts/we-reached-our-18833766 We now have almost 3000 articles on the Alabama Pioneers website plus 24 episodes on The Alabama Grist Mill podcast and they are all FREE thanks to your patronage. Because of your support many people, all over the world, are learning the true history of Alabama and its people through original photographs, films, stories, vintage newspapers, and biographies. Thank you so much for your contribution to this endeavor. HINTS FOR PATREON MEMBERS Don't log out of the Patreon website! Remember to stay logged in to the Patreon website so all stories are unlocked for you. Links on Facebook, Alabama Pioneers website and other social media cannot recognize you as an Alabama Patron member unless you are logged in to the Patreon website. To ensure you are logged in: Click this link https://www.patreon.com/alabamapioneers/posts If you see your avatar in the upper right corner, you are logged in. If you have any trouble with navigation on the Patreon/Patron website, email us at info@alabamapioneers.com. Have you noticed the PATRON POSTS category on the Alabama Pioneers MENU bar? This added category should make it much easier to view all Patron-member-only posts, and if you are a new member you can catch up on all Patron-only published articles, Podcasts and other stories on the Alabama Pioneers website Did you know that you can post your own pictures, queries, and messages on the Patreon website for the Patron community to see? Here are the 3 easy steps on how to post: 1. Login to the Patreon/Patron website 2. Look to the left of the page and CLICK on the dollar amount you have pledged, this will take you to the MAIN Patreon Page 3. Look at the three Menu items on the MAIN Patreon Page which are: OVERVIEW POSTS COMMUNITY OVERVIEW – provides a basic overview of the program with tier levels, rewards, and etc. POSTS – here you will see POSTS from Alabama Pioneers. - (Note: You can add comments to any post) COMMUNITY – this is where you can posts pictures, queries and ask questions of the community at large. FREE SIGNED BOOK!The next drawing for a SIGNED PAPERBACK copy of Alabama Footprints: Exploration will be held on June 15, 2018. All Alabama Pioneers Patron members are participants in the drawing. JUST HAD TO SHARE WITH OUR FRIENDSGood humor never dies. Occasionally we run across some fun items from old newspapers. These stories were funny in 1874 and they are still funny now.
The State of Alabama will have her two-hundredth birthday on December 14, 2019. Many cities and towns are having bicentennial events around the state. You can stay posted on all the upcoming events at 200 Alabama centennial Did you know that PATRON/PATREON members can now honor their pioneer ancestor on the Alabama Pioneers for the bicentennial? Click here to see how. Good Ole Days(Note: The following links are only visible to $2+ Patron/Patreon members) Take away all the buildings and imagine Birmingham with just tents everywhere! Do you remember when bear, panther and wolf were common in early Alabama? Amazing descriptions of early people who resided in Fayette County 1886 by a person who knew them Genealogy AbstractsNote: The following links are visible to ALL Patron/Patreon members Butler County, Alabama – 1820 – list of voters in the count and result of election for sheriff Genealogy Notes on the Anderson Family Transcriptions of personal items of interest from the Birmingham Iron Age, February 26th 1874 Alabama’s first licensed lawyers May 14, 1874 – News in Tuscaloosa Destructive weather, opening of a mill & house fire Genealogy notes from JACKSONVILLE REGISTER, ALABAMA January 28, 1837 Dec. 15, 1894, Personals from Times Daily – Lauderdale County, Alabama Alabama Bible Records: Robert Boyd Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Transcribed newspaper extracts, February 19, 1874 from Birmingham Iron Age Death and Marriage notices from Autauga County, Alabama 1850s – 1870s newspapers
Featured Stories(Note: The following links are only visible to $2+Patron/Patreon members) Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Part VI Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VII Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VIII Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VIV Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part X De Soto was refused Indian maidens to accompany him on his journey Featured Queries(Become a Family Researcher Plus Patron member and your query will be posted in the bimonthly newsletter as well as on the Alabama Pioneers website) Information needed on the Moore surname Do you know anything about Thomas McAfee born 1837? Searching for Grelot proof of parentage
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