New Cullman County history book uses Wallace State collection for research
Tanya Shearer, left, and Iman Humaideh, right of Wallace State’s genealogy collection hold new Cullman County history books by author Robin Sterling, center.
HANCEVILLE, Ala. — Wallace state Community College’s family and regional history collection helps people across the country, and some people in foreign lands, in researching their genealogy and local legacy. Several authors have used its resources.
Robin Sterling, creator of numerous books on Cullman and surrounding counties’ cemetery records, Confederates, newspaper abstracts and more has just published his long-anticipated Tales of Old Cullman County, Alabama, a sequel to his similar book on Blount County. The book is a collection of documented historical essays on events, people and places that made Cullman County.
Robert S. Davis, who conducts the genealogy collection at Wallace State, says that every county should have a book like this one. It has documented historical essays from beginnings with Baltimore and Abraham Stout to the Grotto. The book cuts off at around 1940. Sterling’s books are available through Lulu.com and Amazon.
Wallace State’s genealogy and local history program has articles, books, files, indexes, and microfilm (county records and newspapers) on Cullman and neighboring counties. Cullman County people also appear in the collection’s broader holdings on Alabama (and other states), Civil War soldiers, family history files, Native Americans, newspaper databases etc.
The program is currently forming a Cullman County area archive where visitors will loan their historic photographs for scanning. The genealogy collection is free and open to help individuals with family research in the basement of the library Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. (the staff leaves at 4:30 p.m.); Friday, 7:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.; and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Davis offers continuing education classes on researching family history. Each class will be on a Wednesday and a consecutive Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. They include Genealogy (including computers and book publishing): Sept. 25-26 and on Feb. 5-6; and Southern Research/Confederate Research on Oct. 23-23 and on March 18-19.
For more information, contact Amanda Aris, Amanda.aris@wallacestate.edu.