1. Who is included in database:
 
     - Direct ancestors
     - Descendants of siblings of direct ancestors if they carried the particular “family names”
     - Descendants of siblings of direct ancestors if they live/lived in Lamar County, Alabama
 
This means “cousins” are generally not included unless they are Reduses, Prices, Masons, or Mitchells or live in Lamar County, or if I just wanted to include them.

2.  Database individual pages:
     - Photos:  usually no more than two, one as a child and one as an adult.  Other pictures may be on the photo pages.
     - Other items on the page are sources only: marriage licenses, wills, and birth, wedding, and obituary announcements

3.  On individual personal pages, place of death refers to the person's last residence and not the place they actually passed away.
 
4. Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is used to store family and individual info.  This is exported to a gedcom which is then used by Ged2Web to produce the web pages.  I created a Visual Basic 6 program which reformats those pages and adds hyperlinks and images.  Anytime a person is added or a name change is done the entire database (5100 people) and all pages that are linked to those personal pages must be reformatted and uploaded which takes about 3 hours.  I usually do this about every two or three weeks.

1.  Don't link directly to an individual's personal page.  The filenames change with each upload and the links will quickly become out-dated.  Link instead to the main page (http://lamarkin.com/index.html) or the surname directory (http://lamarkin.com/tree/surnames.htm).

2.  Please do not "hot-link" to images.  Instead, link to the page containing the image.

3.  Don't download images on this site that were submitted by others.  I only have permission to display those images on this site and can't transfer that permission to others.  If possible, I will supply the email address of the original owner.

4.  Images I own can be downloaded for personal use or research.

5.  Do not upload any images from this site to any subscription-based website.

1. There are 2 Robertson lines in the database which do not appear to be connected.
 
     - The William Pitt Robertson line Belva Jean Price>Hattie Mason>Cora Hall>William Hall>Amanda J Robertson>William Pitt Robertson
     - Two daughters of James L Robertson, one who married Edmond Mason and one who married his son, Elijah
 
2. The 1900 Alabama, Lamar County, Ridge Beat Census was enumerated by Thomas E. Redus, son of Daniel Dale Redus.
 

3.  Elijah and Louisa Mason's and Leroy and Mary Jane Robertson's marriage licenses from 1868 are on facing pages in the old Jones's County Marriage Book.  Elijah's great granddaughter Hattie Mason and Leroy's grandson Ernest Price would marry over seventy years later.

I will gladly search for and photograph grave markers (locally)  as long as the cemetery is known.

I will search Lamar County courthouse records as long as the search can be somewhat narrowed down:  marriages to within 1 to 3 years, newspaper articles to within 1 month, deed and mortgage records to within a year.  Remember that obituaries were not common before about 1950 unless the person was very well known, although a mention of the death might be found in a "local news" column.

No charge for any of the above for anyone seeking information for personal use.  Usually can have results within 2 weeks.