The "WPA Index to Alabama Biography" was a Works Progress Administration project begun in the 1930's then abandoned when funding for the WPA was curtailed. Although the index was never completed, over 97 titles such as Who's Who in America, other biographical dictionaries, and local histories were indexed by the workers. It is an invaluable tool for researching Alabama biographical sources.

• Starts With - search by the first letter or letters of a name
• Contains - search for a letter or letters anywhere in the name
• Is Exactly - search a name exactly as spelled

• Alabama biography : an index to biographical sketches of individual Alabamians in state, local, and to some extent national collections - library catalog record of the print version to this database
• Southern History Department (Genealogical Resources) at Birmingham Public Library