Welcome To Washington 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. (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.   We hope you will consider contributing your Obits, Biographies and Pioneer Family History. Send your contributions to Veneta 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. Washington County in Tombigbee District was established by proclamation of Governor Winthrop Sargent of the Mississippi Territory on June 4, 1800, making it the oldest county in the State of Alabama. The county was named in honor of George Washington, first President of the United States of America. Washington County is home to the site of Old Saint Stephens, the first territorial capital of Alabama. Its county seat is Chatom. Towns and Cities: * Chatom * McIntosh * Millry * Vinegar Bend * Leroy ONLINE DATA Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Data Church Data Deaths History Marriages Military News Articles Obituaries Pioneer Families Post Offices Schools St Stephens Data Wills & Probates Website Updates: March 2013: Deaths: DOUGLAS; Bios: LYON, LOTT Feb 2013: WWII Army Enlistment Records - Transcribed by Don Tharp; Vietnam War Casualties - Transcribed by Mary Kay Krogman; Early Marriages - Transcribed by Sandy Denney; Early Births - Transcribed by Sandy Denney Jan 2013: Community: High School 1908; Bio: ALSTON, LYON - transcribed by KimMohler Deaths of State Convicts 1910 - 1914 - Transcribed by Dawn Conway Dec 2012: 1907 Census of Confederate Veterans Nov 2012: St. Stephens - Land office burned 1838 Oct 2012: 1883 Pensioners Sept 2012: WW2 Honor List - Submitted by Peggy Thompson; Crime News; Community News; Weather news; Industrial News; Bio: RAWLS Aug 2012: Mil: WWI Gold Stars, Rev. War Soldiers; Community news: GRISHAM - new business July 2012: Listing of Schools and Historical Post Offices Oct. 2010: Crime News Stories: May Be A Lynching - Sumrall-Baez Visit our Alabama State Site  Surrounding Counties : Choctaw - (north) Clarke - (east) Mobile - (south) Baldwin - (southeast) Wayne, MS - (west) Greene, MS - (southwest)  Visit our Genealogy Trails National Site All data on this website is © Copyright 2013 by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.