Holmes County
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Resources

There are many websites with genealogy-related info for Florida family history research. If you know of additional helpful resources about Holmes County ancestors, please share them with us.

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project.


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    This page was last updated 05/26/2026