The world's longest insect is Chan's Megastick, Phobaeticus chani. A few museums have specimens in their collection and the longest of the lot is at the Natural History Museum, London. Their record breaker has a body length of 35.7 cm (14.1 in). Not bad.
Vital County Records on Microfilm at ADAH. VITAL RECORDS include birth, death, marriage and divorce records. Alabama law did not require the recording of birth or death certificates until 1908. The statewide recording of marriage certificates began in 1936 and divorce certificates in 1950.
And babies make 11! One Alabama family has more than doubled in size after mom, Courtney Waldrop gave birth to sextuplets this week. The three boys and three girls were born in just 4 minutes. While no birth weights have been revealed, we do know that Courtney had hit her goal of 30 weeks gestation and all of the babies are doing well.