Welcome To Shelby 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 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. Shelby County was established on February 7, 1818 and was named in honor of Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky. The county seat of Shelby County is Columbiana. Shelby Co AL Cotton Fields Towns and Cities: * Alabaster * Birmingham (part in Jefferson Co) * Calera (in Chilton Co) * Chelsea * Columbiana * Harpersville * Helena (part in Jefferson Co) * Hoover (part in Jefferson Co) * Indian Springs Village * Indian Valley * Lake Purdy * Leeds (part in Jefferson Co and St. Clair Co) * Meadowbrook * Montevallo * Pelham * Saginaw * Vincent (part in St. Clair Co and Talladega Co) * Westover * Wilsonville * Wilton ONLINE DATA Bible Records Biographies Births Cemeteries Deaths Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data News Articles Obituaries Pioneer Families Schools History Website Updates: Feb. 2009: County History Jan 2009: CEMETERY Index, Wedding Announcement, Community News, WWI Article, Revolutionary Soldiers Oct. 2008: LACEY, LINDSAY , LEE,  & WAGNER biographies, ASHCRAFT obituary Sept. 2008: Civil War data for DRAPER Visit our Alabama State Site  Surrounding Counties St. Clair County (northeast) Talladega County (east) Coosa County (southeast) Chilton County (south) Bibb County (southwest) Jefferson County (northwest) Visit our Genealogy Trails National Site All data on this website is © Copyright 2009 by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.