ALGenWeb: County Index: Walker County

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Walker County

• What's New
• History
• Researching Walker County
• Researchers & Reunions
• Queries
• Civil War Information
• Other Online information
• How you can improve Walker Co. ALGenWeb

What's New

Check the What's New page to see what has changed since your last visit.

History

• Formed from portions of Marion and Tuscaloosa Counties in 1824, Walker County was named for Alabama's first U.S. Senator, John Williams Walker.

• Winston County, originally called Hancock, was created from the northern half of Walker in 1850. Cullman County was created from Winston, Blount and Walker Counties in 1877. At various times, Walker received land from Fayette County and gave land to Blount County.

• Jasper, the county seat of Walker, was named for Sgt. William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War hero.

• History of Walker County from the Alabama Department of Archives & History

• Local history from the Walker County Chamber of Commerce

Researching Walker County

• The Elizabeth T. Wiggins Heritage Room of the Jasper Public Library (20 E. 18 St.) contains local history and genealogical records of Walker County as well as surrounding counties.

• The Walker County Genealogical Society meets on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Jasper Public Library. The Society (P.O. Box 3408, Jasper, AL 35502-3408) also publishes a quarterly called Walking Back in Time.

• The Heritage of Walker County, Alabama book is a collection of over 800 stories about families who once lived, or who now live in Walker County. Also included are articles about churches, communties, etc. Story submission is closed. To order ($64.40, including shipping) contact:
  
  Walker County Heritage Book
  P. O. Box 2290
  Jasper, AL 35502
  
  or email billtubb@oakman.tds.net

Researchers & Reunions

• Locate the email addresses and web pages of other people researching Walker Co. families: check our list of researchers and add your name to the list. New names were last added on Sunday, 4 June 2000.

• Check our list of reunions of Walker Co.-related families and organizations and add yours to the list. New events were last added on Tuesday, 3 February 2004.

• As a supplement to this page, a mailing list for the discussion of Walker Co., AL genealogy, called ALWALKER-L, has been created. As of 21 February 2000, this list has over 325 subscribers!
  
  You can subscribe to the list in mail mode by sending a message to ALWALKER-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word "subscribe" (without the quotation marks) and nothing else. If you prefer digest mode, you should send the command instead to ALWALKER-D-request@rootsweb.com.
  
  To post a message to the list (you must subscribe first), send it to ALWALKER-L@rootsweb.com.
  
  Anyone can search the archives of previous messages posted to ALWALKER-L.

Queries

• Amelia Willcutt accepts queries for Alabama ancestors. The queries are organized by surname instead of county, and Amelia maintains a cross-index when several surnames are supplied in the query.

• The Walker County Genealogical Society (WCGS) also publishes queries in Walking Back in Time ($2.00 per query for non-members, free for members; 40 words or less per query, P.O. Box 3408, Jasper, AL 35502-3408).

  In addition to writing the WCGS, you can now submit queries via email to Karen Langley Powell, family tree editor for the WGCS, at mlpkdp@mindspring.com.

  The WCGS queries are also printed on Fridays in the Lifestyles section of Walker County's Daily Mountain Eagle newspaper -- although they no longer appear in the web edition. For a query to be placed in the Daily Mountain Eagle you do not have to be a member of the Society, and it is free!

Civil War Information

• 1st Alabama Cavalry (USA)
  • 1st Alabama Cavalry, a comprehensive site containing a roster, casualty and battle lists, and more.
  • Alabama Regiments in the Armies of the United States, a smaller site containing a short synopsis of each Alabama Union unit.
  • Alabama's only white Union unit
  • Only Winston Co. provided more men for this unit than Walker Co.
  • Joel Mize <JMize54901@aol.com> is building a GEDCOM file of the families of veterans from this regiment. His current database contains about 3400 names from families of about 420 of the soldiers. He is looking for help from anyone with information on the ancestors and descendants of this unit's veterans.
  • Glenda McWhirter Todd <gtodd@edge.net> has a list of the men who served in this unit and is willing to do look-ups.

• 26th Alabama Infantry (CSA)

• From Dr. Ken Jones's Eclectic Projects Page
  • Alabama Civil War Regimental Histories
  • Alabama Confederate Regiments by County
  • Alabama Confederate Regimental Bibliography

• Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War, reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872, from the Alabama Department of Archives & History

Other Online information

• "1866 Alabama State Census, Colored Population, Walker County, AL": one of the first records of freed African-Americans following the Civil War

• Alabama African American Genealogy is helpful for those with African-American ancestry, and the site also encourages those whose ancestors owned slaves to share pertinent information they may find in slave records and wills from that period

• Microfilmed newspapers of Walker County from the Alabama Department of Archives & History

• County Statistics from the University of Alabama at Huntsville

• Walker County Research Room at Lineages, Inc.

• Place names (including cemeteries) in Walker County from the USGS Geographic Names Database

• Native American research in Alabama

• Alabama locations in the Roots Location List

• Alabama surnames in the Roots Surname List

  Surname	Use surname;surname to see submitters researching both surnames
  Select type of search:	Surname Soundex Metaphone Soundex and Metaphone are for sounds like matches
  Updated during period:	Any Last Week Last Month Last Two Months

• Walker County government page; includes links to general information about the county

• Walker County related listings on Yahoo!

• Use the AltaVista search engine below to find information about Walker County genealogy on the Web. You can modify the search criteria if you wish.
  Search the Web Usenet and Display the Results in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form
  

• Other great Alabama genealogy links from ALGenWeb

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

How you can improve Walker Co. ALGenWeb

• Email the coordinator about additional Web, gopher or ftp sites you would like linked to this page.

• Email the coordinator if you have genealogical data in electronic form (e.g., Walker Co. marriage or census records) that you would like to make available to others via this site. Check out the USGenWeb Archives to see what others have done. Volunteers are extracting census records, wills, marriages, cemetery records, births, and other documents for contribution.

• Email the coordinator if you own books in which you are willing to do look ups for other Walker County researchers.

• Email the coordinator if you would like to post via this site your name, email address and Web address along with the Walker County surnames you are researching.

• Email the coordinator if you find any errors in these pages.

ALGenWeb: County Index: Walker County

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