Other Useful Links
Other Useful Links
Documenting the American South: A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Webb's Historical, Industrial and Biographical Florida (1885)
Who's Who and What to See in Florida (1935)
The SanbornŽ Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida: A collection of more than 300 bibliographic units in more than 3,000 map sheets.
Florida National Guard Heritage Center - offers an excellent history of Florida from the military perspective.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Florida Attorneys Listed in Graft's Legal Directory 1908 - 09
Florida School Superintendents and Normal School Principals 1907
Florida INDEPENDENT History & Genealogy
Florida Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Local Schools
In the days before Boca Raton got its own high school, many Boca students were bused to Delray Beach to attend the old Delray Beach High School or, after 1949, Seacrest High School. The latter has its own web page with hundreds of short biographies and addresses of graduates as well as announcements of reunions, deaths, etc:
Boca Raton High School The Early Years: 1966-71 website. Includes yearbooks from 1966-1971.
Military
The National Park Services Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
Florida Conferate Pension Application Files
American Battle Monuments searchable database of WW I, WW II and Korean War Casualties
Online Books
Camp life in Florida: a handbook for sportsmen and settlers - published 1876
Florida Trails - As seen from Jacksonville to Key West - published 1910
CANOEMATES - A Story of the Florida Reef and Everglades. Published 1892
Church Records
Florida Baptist Historical Society
5400 College Drive
Graceville, FL 32440
Florida United Methodist Archives
E. T. Roux Library
Florida Southern College
111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive
Lakeland, FL 33801-5698
Phone: (863)688-5563
Archdiocese of Miami (Roman Catholic)
9401 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami Shores, FL 33138
Ethnic Resources
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Central Florida
P.O. Box 1347
Orlando, FL 32802-1347
The USF Africana Heritage Project
University of Southern Florida
Africana Studies Department
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, FAO 266
Tampa, FL 33620
Florida - African American Roots
African American Cemeteries Online - Florida
Freedmen's marriage certificates, 1861-69 (Florida): The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department during the Civil War. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen (normally former slaves), including issuing rations, clothing and medicine. The Bureau also assumed custody of confiscated lands or property in the former Confederate States, border states, District of Columbia, and Indian Territory.
NATIVE AMERICAN
HISPANIC
University of Florida
George A. Smathers Library
Latin American Collection
P.O. Box 117007
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone: (352)392-0360
University of Miami
Otto G. Richter Library
Special Collections Division
1300 Memorial Drive, 8th floor
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305)284-3247
JEWISH
Jewish Genealogical Society of Broward County,Inc.
P.O. Box 17251
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33318
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando
P.O. Box 941332
Maitland, FL 32794-1332
Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County, Inc.
P.O. Box 7796
Delray Beach, FL 33482-7796
Surnames
BAKER - The Baker Cemetery Website (Florida Section)
DUBOIS - The Florida Atlantic University Library (Special Collections) includes papers on the DuBois family that settled in South Florida in 1892. They lived most of their life in the area of Jupiter
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