Records for Dekalb County, Alabama, dating to the very early 1800’s will be moved from the barn where they are currently housed in about 2 months according to an article in the August 17, 2010 edition of The Times-Journal. Following is an excerpt from the article.
Circuit Clerk Pam Simpson asked the DeKalb County Commission for a place to move the records, which are being housed in the old county barn.
“They don’t have much protection from the outside elements, and some are beginning to deteriorate,” Simpson said. “The dates range from the early 1800s, when records were written with a quill pen, on up to the 1970s, and they can’t be replaced.”
Simpson said members of the DeKalb County Genealogical Society have volunteered to help organize the records and get them moved to the new location, which will be the old county health department facility on Grand Avenue in Fort Payne.
