Family History Research Services

SoutheasternRoots: Genealogical and Historical Research

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Family History Research Services

Writing a book? Do you need historical details to give more substance to your work? Whether historical, genealogical, non-fiction or fiction, we will do the research and provide you with the appropriate citations.
Census Analysis - Have you found your ancestor through all of the available years? We have had success in finding "missing" family for a majority of our clients.
Travel to the record repository - We can assess which records are available and where they are located, whether in a university library, local courthouse, or archives and go after them.
Connecting co-lateral lines - Have you connected families together to give you the best possible chance of finding out about your direct line ancestor? This is one of our specialties.

Although we use personal resources, including the Internet, we will also conduct on-site research primarily in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia regarding the following categories:

Newspaper (both original copy and microfilm of 19th and 20th century pertaining to counties throughout Alabama, Georgia, and Florida)
Census records (federal and state; population, agricultural, etc.)
Tax Records (many have never been microfilmed or published)
Probate (testate and intestate; volumed or loose probate files which have not been microfilmed)
Vital Records (birth, marriage, death, divorce, mortality schedules, funeral home records, and the Social Security Death Index)
Land (Federal Land Office records, tract books, county deed books, mortgages, etc.)
Church Records (published and unpublished; all denominational repositories)
Military (service records and pension files relating to the War of 1812, southern Indian wars, Mexican War, Civil War, etc.)
Black-American records (Freedman's Bureau, slave narratives, etc.)
Immigration and Naturalization Records (passenger lists, naturalization files for southern states housed at NARA in Morrow, GA)
Legislative & Territorial Acts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida (divorces, name changes, legalized marriages, citizen relief, estate, slave manumissions, business establishment, etc.)
State Supreme Court cases (often contain case data for counties having burned records)
Special Collections of most major universities in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida (maps, family papers, rare books, micromedia serials such as Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, etc.)

SoutheasternRoots also provides the following special services:

Analysis and consultation
Document retrieval and photocopying
19th century document translation (English language only)
Digital Photography (cemetery tombstones, old houses, etc.)

Genealogy research is fun, but also frustrating. Are you exasperated over your own family history research? Maybe you need someone to point you in the right direction, or to look over your information and get you back on track. We would like to assist you and help you refocus.

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