These tools for the most part are free to use on the web. Some tools such as Ancestry.com require a paid membership. Other tools such as findagrave.com request that you register but do not charge for their service. With the collection of search sites below, a researcher may be able to locate lost relatives and Confederate ancestors.

Ancestry
http://www.ancestry.com

Roots Web
http://www.rootsweb.com

Find A Grave (Free service. They do want you to register. National grass roots initiative to mark all graves in the nation)
http://www.findagrave.com/

World Cat
http://www.worldcat.org

US Genweb Archives Project - Alabama (Other states can be search from this page)
http://usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm

Footnote
http://www.footnote.com/

Genealogy.com
http://genealogy.com/index_n.html

Family Search
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness
http://www.raogk.org/alabama.htm