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Guide to Historical Research in Mobile The Historic Mobile Preservation Society Archives Telephone: (251) 432-6161 Hours: Tuesday thru Friday, 9a.m.-3p.m. The Historic Mobile Preservation Society Archives contains the William F. Wilson collection of glass negatives and photographs (c.1892-1910), smaller collections of photographs, vertical files on Mobile history, Mardi Gras, and people, as well as old maps, newspapers, early city directories, and several special collections, including the library of architect George B. Rogers. Mobile Historic Development Commission Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1827, Mobile, AL 36633 Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8a.m.-5p.m. The commission maintains a file on every property in the city's seven historic districts. Many of the properties have chains of title, tax records, and city directory research. Mobile Municipal Archives Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1827, Mobile, AL 36633 Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8a.m.-5p.m. The Mobile Municipal Archives contains all of the city's surviving public records (c.1814-present), including a variety of resolutions, licenses, tax lists, and minutes. The repository also contains maps, charts, and correspondence from various city departments. Museum of Mobile Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2068, Mobile, Al. 36652 Museum Hours: Monday thru Saturday, 9a.m.-5p.m, Sunday,
1p.m.-5p.m. The Museum of the City of Mobile contains artifact and documentary evidence that illustrates Mobile's history from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. The collection contains original documents, manuscripts, photographs, and other material relative to the history of the area. Mobile County Probate Court Records Department Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7, Mobile, AL 36601 Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8a.m.-5p.m. The Mobile County Probate Court Records Department contains deeds, mortgages, licenses, court minutes, wills, and other documents from the eighteenth century to the present. Mobile Genealogical Society Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10:30a.m.-2:30p.m. and Saturday, 9a.m.-noon The Mobile Genealogy Society library contains city directories, genealogical books and journals, and individual family histories. Mobile Public Library Local History and Genealogy
Division Telephone: (251) 208-7093 Hours: Monday thru Saturday, 9a.m.-6p.m. The Mobile Public Library Local History and Genealogy Division collects information regarding area history. The collection contains microfilm of Mobile newspapers (c.1817-present), Federal Census for Alabama and surrounding states (c.1790-1930), transcripts of early French, Spanish, and British land records, and vertical files of newspaper clippings, as well as over 16,000 books. University of South Alabama Archives Mailing address: USA Springhill, Room 0722, Mobile, AL 36688 Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8a.m.-noon, 1-5p.m. The University of South Alabama Archives contains thousands of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs and negatives pertaining to the Mobile area; public, business, and civic organization records; and papers of individuals. Dauphin Way Baptist Church Telephone: (251) 342-3456 Contact Person: Mrs. Betty Vinson Dauphin Way Baptist Church has two published histories, which are located at USA Archives. Also, they have five display cabinets in the Dauphin Street foyer, as well as photographs. Their files cover the period from 1895 to the present. Government Street Presbyterian Church Telephone: (251) 344-4239 Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:30a.m.-5p.m. Government Street Presbyterian Church has photographs, birth, marriage, and death records, as well as documents that date back to 1831. The records are also available on microfilm at USA Archives. St. Ignatius Archives, Museum, and Library Telephone: (251) 342-9716 Hours: Monday thru Friday, 10a.m.-3p.m., or by appointment. St. Ignatius Archives, Museum, and Library contains photographs, diaries, Msgrs. Oliver Adams and J. Edwin Stuardi collections, including diaries, and its emphasis is on St. Ignatius Church and School. Spring Hill College Archives Mailing Address: Spring Hill College, 4000 Dauphin Street, Mobile,
AL 36608 Hours: Monday thru Friday, 1:30p.m.-4:30p.m. The focus of the Spring Hill College Archives is limited to the history of Spring Hill College, its administrations, faculty, and students. Special collections, also a new part of the archives, has a much broader focus: rare books, Jesuit books, Mobile collection, faculty collection and Spring Hill College student collection. They are fully catalogued, and information is available online. Historical documents, such as the Jesuit House Diaries, are not catalogued. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1966, Mobile, AL 36613 Hours: Monday thru Friday, 9a.m.-4p.m. By
appointment. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile houses sacramental records, papers of bishops of Mobile, and Catholic departmental records. Family History Center of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints Mailing Address: Because of limited staff, the center
cannot respond to mail inquiries. Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 10a.m.-2p.m., Thursday,
6-9p.m. The Family History Center has over 2000 rolls of microfilm
on site including 300 rolls of Alabama death certificates. It also provides access to
more than 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records held in Salt Lake City,
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