Welcome To Franklin County Alabama Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We hope you will consider contributing your Obits, Biographies and Pioneer Family History. Send your contributions to Christina We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Alabama is covered under our "Southern States" mailing list. Colbert County was originally established on February 6, 1867 after it split from Franklin County over political issues after the American Civil War. It was abolished eight months later by an Alabama constitutional convention and then reestablished on February 24, 1870 Its name is in honor of Benjamin Franklin, famous statesman, scientist, and printer. Its county seat is Russellville Towns and Cities: * Belgreen * Hodges * Phil Campbell * Red Bay * Russellville * Vina ONLINE DATA Bible Records Biographies Births Cemeteries Deaths Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data News Articles Obituaries Family Galleries Wills Brick Walls Website Updates: April 2011: Bios: ALMON, BULLOCK, EZZELL, JORDAN, ORMAN; News: Community News: BELGREEN; Mar. 2011: News: CRIME News; MISCELLANEOUS News; COMMUNITY News; Feb. 2011: Bios: WATSON; Family Galleries: WATSON; Obits: WATSON; Misc: Summons for WATSON Jury Trial; Wills: WATSON; Oct. 2010: BRICK WALL Page -AYERS/AYRES; July 2009: CEMETERY Index; VARIOUS CEMETERY Records; April 2009: Additional REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS Jan. 2009: REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS Oct. 2008: LINDSEY, LITTLE biographies  Visit our Alabama State Site  Surrounding Counties * Colbert County (north) * Lawrence County (east) * Winston County (southeast) * Marion County (south) * Itawamba County, MS (southwest) * Tishomingo County, MS (northwest) Visit our Genealogy Trails National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor