Resources
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Florida Memory -
State Library and Archives of Florida. There are thousands of Historical Records available. Most of the collections can be searched by county.
State University Libraries of Florida - Archival Library & Museum Materials
FamilySearch
Florida Births and Christenings , 1880-1935, Collection
Florida Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers , 1861-1865, Collection
Florida Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers , 1861-1865, Collection
Florida Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Applications , 1885-1955, Collection
Florida Death Index , 1877-1998, Collection
Florida Deaths and Burials , 1900-1921, Collection
Florida Deaths , 1877-1939, Collection
Florida Divorce Index , 1927-2001, Collection
Florida Marriage Index , 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Collection
Florida Marriages, 1830-1993 , Collection
Florida Marriages, 1837-1974 , Collection
Florida Probate Records , 1784-1990, Collection
Florida State Census, 1885 , Collection
Florida State Census, 1935 , Collection
Florida State Census, 1945 , Collection
Florida, Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home records, 1888-1938, Collection
Florida, Spanish Land Grants , 1763-1821, Collection
Florida, World War I Navy Card Roster , 1917-1920, Collection
Florida, World War I Service Cards , 1917-1919, Collection
1911 Florida Gazetteer and Business Directory
1923 History of Florida, Past and Present ,
Volume 3
FindAGrave
Tombstone Transcription Project
National Register of Historic Places
Historical Marker Database
Holmes County Times-Advertiser - some issues provided online by George A. Smathers Libraries
Northwest Florida History & Genealogy
Florida State Genealogical Society
Holmes County
Clerk of Court - for marriage records dating before June 1927 201 N. Oklahoma Street, Bonifay, FL 32425 Phone:
(850) 547-1100
Florida Department of Health - to order birth, marriage,
divorce, and death certificates
Holmes County Public Library
303 North J. Harvey Etheridge Street, Bonifay, Florida 32425 Phone: (850)
547-3573
Richmond County NCGenWeb -
Holmes County connections
Alabama
Homing - has family ties to and info for Holmes County researchers
National Archives -
WWII Database
USGS GNIS - Geographic Names Information System
Exploring Florida
Touchton Map Library -
1926 sectional map of Holmes County
Maps Etc - includes a collection of detailed
1936 Holmes County city maps
Holmes County Cemetery Census , by Lon Everett, 260 pages, available for purchase
from Holmes County Historical Society
This is the Place , by E W Carswell, a history of Esto,
available from the University of West Florida
Holmesteading -- The History of Holmes County, Florida , by Elba Wilson Carswell, published in 1986
Surnames (6-page pdf)
Explore Southern History
AncestorHunt
GenealogyTrails
ObitCity
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