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We've been busy bees at the West Florida Genealogical Society. It's been a long time coming but we're seeing daylight. There are are a number of the cemetery list with GPS and indexed with names and dates on our website. Now we're transcribing the marriage records for the county from 1820 -----we're about in the 19teens now. We also have all census up to, I think, 1920 transcribed.

If you check with your library they may have the heritage books for many of the Alabama counties. Try Escambia County, Baldwin and Conecuh County's in Alabama. Sometimes there is a memory written that includes things like the fighting in Pollard and other tidbits that may escape the larger tomes.
The publisher is in Alabama and he's also an author. The Heritage Books are written by the people who have the old family story or tales. I was shanghied into being the topical editor for our Vol II. It was a lot of work, and some major headaches, and we did have to cut some things out but I learned so much on not only my family but the area just working with those individual submissions.

One thing I did learn is that the North end of Escambia County is more than a border to Alabama. Hubby's family is from that area and they may have had the living room in Florida but the Kitchen was in Alabama. Information overlaps or Alabama information may well be in our Florida stuff. Pollard is smack dab on the info highway going both directions. Bob Bradley may have something at the Al Archives. He also knows that area being a 'local' with bookoodles of knowledge. Sherry Johnston at the Greenville, Al library is also blessed with a lightspeed photographic memory. I swear she's the only one I know that can pull info out of the air and then take you to the source. It may be a local family wrote a booklet on the family tree and some of the Pollard info is in it. Most of the wonderful tidbits we find are not in the regular history books. They're in the local section and may be written in pencil on one sheet of paper with the writing going round the entire edge of it.

There are some people in the 'old' family trees that may have died in Alabama but are buried in a Florida cemetery because they went to a church just up the road and that's where the cemetery is.

Pam

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