Welcome to Madison County, Alabama Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This county is "Up For Adoption" Genealogy Trails is a group of volunteers dedicated to putting data online. Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. If you think you might be interested in hosting a county or state website visit our Volunteer Information Page - then email Kim. This is truly a fun project and you'll learn as you go. [You must have a desire to transcribe data and need to know how to build a basic webpage to put that data on] We hope you will consider contributing your Obits, Biographies and Pioneer Family History. Send your contributions to Christina We are sorry that we don't have time to perform personal research. Any data we come across for this county, will be placed on this site.   County Information Madison County was established on December 13, 1808 by the governor of the Mississippi territory and named in honor of James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America, and the first to visit the state of Alabama. Its county seat is Huntsville. It covers parts of the former Decatur County. Madison County is recognized as the "birthplace" of Alabama, which was founded here on December 14, 1819. For much of the county's history, the economy has revolved mostly around agriculture. Madison County was one of the largest cotton-producing counties in the state of Alabama, and textile mills operated around the county. This all changed when a group of German rocket scientists, led by Wernher von Braun, came to Huntsville in 1950. They developed the Mercury-Redstone Rocket, which eventually became the first vehicle to launch an American into space. Tens of thousands of jobs came to the area as a result of the "space race" [Source: wikipedia.org] Cities and Towns Gurley Harvest Hazel Green Huntsville (part - part of Huntsville is in Limestone County) Madison (part - part of Madison is in Limestone County) Meridianville Moores Mill New Hope New Market Owens Cross Roads Redstone Arsenal Triana Online Data (We need data!!!) We hope you will consider contributing your Census Data, Marriage/Birth/Death Records, Obituaries, Biographies and Pioneer Family History. Send your contributions to Christina BIRTHS OBITS MARRIAGES CEMETERIES CENSUS DATA SCHOOLS MILITARY BIOGRAPHIES CHURCH RECORDS DEATHS HISTORY NEWSPAPER DATA Website Updates: Jan. 2012: Census: 1809 Squatters, 1907 Confederate Soldiers; News: History: An Interesting Relic Found; Feb. 2011: News: Military Items: CLUTTS, MAYHALL; June 2010: Obits: BIRNEY, BEASLEY; May 2010: Obits: Consort of John D. Travis; July 2009: CEMETERY Index; VARIOUS CEMETERY Records April 2009: Additional Revolutionary Soldiers Feb. 2009: History: PIONEERS Jan. 2009: Revolutionary Soldiers Dec. 2008: News Articles, Epidemics and Sick List Nov 2008: Obits for ANDERSON, BRADY, DRAIN, HINES, BARNETT, CHENAULT, LOCKE, PECK, PARKS, SMITH, SPURRIER, ADKINS, ARCHER, ARNOLD, BRABO, BROOKS, GOLDEN, HUGHES, MCELYEA, OGLE, SCOTT, VINCENT, REISINGER Oct. 2008: 1883 Cumberland Presbyterian Church Christenings, LEDBETTER, LEFTWICH, LEWIS, LOWE, & LOWRY biographies, VARIOUS obits Sep 2008: WINKLE birth record 10 June 2008: MITZNER obit To be kept notified of our website updates, Be sure and join our MAILING LIST We do it by regions - join as many or as few as you're interested in. This is where we notify everyone of updates and changes. Visit Our Alabama State Site Surrounding Counties Lincoln County, TN (north) Franklin County, TN (northeast) Jackson County (east) Marshall County (southeast) Morgan County (southwest across the Tennessee River) Limestone County (west) Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.