Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of genealogy from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Nearly two centuries after the United States banned the importation of enslaved people, a Mobile-area businessman financed one final, illegal voyage across the Atlantic — and the community founded by…
The second installment of a Mobile family memoir traces a French line back to Bienville's settlers, to land between Bayou La Batre and Coden, and to how Mon Louis Island…
A memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, a Mobile-born nun, opens with an Irish immigrant on the docks, a wounded Confederate prisoner, and a boy summoned home by Admiral Farragut himself.