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.

• Florida Memory - State Library and Archives of Florida. There are thousands of Historical Records available. Most of the collections can be searched by county.
• 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

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

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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