Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

• 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 Pioneers - online database provides info about the pioneer and their descendants
• 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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