FOLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY

ALABAMA, LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY DEPARTMENT

JEANETTE BORNHOLT

Alabama, Local History and Genealogy Librarian

The Alabama / Local History and Genealogy Department is located on the second floor of the library.

These extensive collections include materials on the state of Alabama, county and city histories and family histories in book, file, and film.

The Special Collection includes:

Owen’s History of Alabama

Dictionary of Alabama Biographies

The Alabama Review

Alabama Historical Quarterly

The Five Hundred Years of Baldwin County [film series]

The Local History Collection includes:

Publications about Baldwin County

Microfilm of local newspapers as early as 1897

Baldwin County History files begun by local historian and author Doris Rich of

Magnolia Springs, Alabama,

The Overton Collection,

Family Histories

Cookbook collection, many no longer in print.

The FOLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY is the depository for the Baldwin County Genealogical Society’s research materials in the Genealogy Collection which covers all states, countries, and ethnic groups  This collection includes:

4500+ genealogy books, quarterlies, periodicals, 

800+ rolls of microfilms of censuses, newspapers, courthouse, congressional, Native

American resources,

3000+ microfiche, also map collection and CDs, for researching throughout the United

States and other countries, 

Microfilm/fiche reader/printer

Internet access with Ancestry.com Library Edition [Also available on all public access

computers in the library] and HeritageQuest.com [Available in the library and at

home for those with Foley Public Library Cards.]

The Obituary File begun in 1988 with obits with Baldwin County ties

Various Family Files

Extensive Family History collection

Heritage of Alabama series [All 67 counties] 

Cemetery records for Baldwin County and much, much more.

Visit the Baldwin County Genealogical Society’s website at: www.rootsweb.com/~albcgs/

and

HeritageQuest

Genealogical Research Website

STEVE THOMAS to speak about Gulf Coast Campaigns in War of 1812

Historian, author Steve Thomas will be guest speaker August 9, 2008 to members and visitors of the Baldwin County Genealogical Society. The program begins at 10 a.m. in the Meeting Room of the Foley Public Library.

Thomas’ program of the Gulf Coast Campaigns in the War of 1812 will show the strategy and reaction in the summer of 1814 to the British invasion of North America. While the lecture is set in larger context of the War of 1812, he will speak of specific actions occurring at ports along American Gulf Coast which will also include operations during the Creek/Redstick rebellion.

Thomas, native of Mobile and a resident of Fairhope, is by trade a data analyst and program for industry and government but his love for history includes numerous documentary film credits, historian and speaker for National Park Service and Alabama Historical Commission properties.  He is an active volunteer and event coordinator for such historic sites as Blakeley Park, Forts Gaines and Morgan and the Mobile Tri-centennial.

Thomas is a member of the 7th U.S. Infantry Association, a national unit of volunteer interpreters and historians.  He is also on staff as site historian for the Grand Hotel in Point Clear.

All meetings are open to interested public.  The meeting begins at 10 a.m. in the Meeting Room of the Foley Public Library, 319 E. Laurel Ave., Foley, AL.  The Baldwin County Genealogical Society, a non-profit organization, is major supporter of the Genealogy Collections of the Foley Public Library