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Local and State Websites
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Florida Facts & History |
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Florida Facts & More |
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Florida Gen Web Project |
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Florida Memory Project |
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Florida Memory provides online access to primary records that illustrate significant moments in Florida's history. Explore the state's rich history through over 170,000 photographs, full-length films on a variety of Florida subjects, and over 1500 sound recordingsof music, oral histories, and 50 years of th florida Folk Festival. This site also provides access to archival collections of land grants, family papers, veterans' records, and church records. |
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Florida State Archives |
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The Archives maintains a extensive collection of genealogical reference materials.
The Genealogical Collection consists of a 10,000-volume library of sourcebooks, including family, state, county and local histories. The collection also contains immigration lists; church, cemetery and military records; genealogy journals and reference books; and a wide variety of other published sources.
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Historical Society of Palm Beach County |
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The Historical Society of Palm Beach County's mission is to collect, preserve and share the history of Palm Beach County. The Society maintains a large library on the history of Palm Beach County, Florida and the Caribbean. The Society's archives, which include nearly two million photographic images, maps, newspapers, journals, periodicals, architectural drawings, and research files, maintain an active research facility. |
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Indian River County Library |
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An an excellant genealogical collection with a very knowledgable stalff. |
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Palm Beach Co. Clerk's Office |
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The Official Record consists of a searchable computerized index and links to digital images of documents dating back to 1968 (marriage license listings [listings only - no images] date back to 1909). Official Records include court judgments, deeds, liens, marriage licenses, mortgages, plats and tax deeds.
As of June 5, 2002, the law requires that documents of certain types, not be placed on a publicly available Internet Web site.
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Palm Beach Co. - Florida Gen Web Project |
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Palm Beach Co. Library - Genealogical Research |
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Palm Beach Gounty Library System's homepage for genealogy research. |
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Palm Beach Post Online |
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Archives of The Palm Beach Post |
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World Connect Family Trees |
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Major Websites
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Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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If you do nor already have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer, click on this link to download a FREE copy of the software needed to read PDF files on this website. |
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Ancestry |
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The largest collection of online genealogical information anywhere. There is a sizable amount that is available for free but, much of it is available by subscription only. Access to the library edition is available from our library. |
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BYU Family History Archives |
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This Brigham Young University site is rapidly growing. Items from the Family History Library, Allen County Public Library, Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, and
idwest Genealogy Center.
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Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System |
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A database of 6.3 million names of soldiers from both sides. Names are linked to regimental histories and short histories of battles. |
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Cyndi's List |
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A huge categorized and cross-referenced directory of sites useful for genealogical research. |
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Death Indexes |
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This link provides links to various types of death indexes from every state in the United States. Some link to cemeteries, newspapers, while some are free,others are subscription sites. |
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Family Search |
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The research website of the LDS Church (Mormons). This site includes access to online classes, resource listings for African-American, Jewish, and Hispanic research. Guides for all fifty states and many foreign countries are also available on this site. Free maps and forms may be downloaded as well. |
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Find a Grave |
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Over 43 million grave records. |
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Genealogy Karma |
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This is the replacement for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness.
Back in 1999, a fantastic resource was established to bring together members of the genealogy community all around the world. The brainchild of Bridgett and Doc Schneider, Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) was created to help genealogists collaborate with the genealogy community to document their research.
The ROAGK website went offline in 2011 because of a computer disaster. Sadly, Bridgett Schneider passed away later that year, and the website was never able to come back online. |
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Internet Archive |
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This site finds old and abandoned websites with its "Wayback Machine" located top dead center. The site also has a large number (thousands) of digitized genealogy books that are in the public domain, downloadable for free in a variety of formats. The site is not genealogy specific, so genealogy is mixed in with many other topics. |
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Ireland Roots |
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A good, basic starting point for Irish research. |
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National Archives And Records Administration |
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What more needs to be said? |
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Passenger Lists |
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This site links to several lists of passenger lists, primarily from England, Germany and Ireland. It also includes other countries. The site is a bit heavy with solicitations for donations but the lists are worthwhile. |
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PERSI |
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The Periodical Source Index is the largest subject index covering genealogical and history periodicals. This link will take you to the PBC Library genealogy web page through which PERSI is accessable. Scroll down to Heritage Quest and enter your PBC library card number and press ENTER. Selct PERSI from this list of options. |
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PERSI Tutorial |
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Heritage Pasthways hosts an easy to understand PERSI tutorial at this site. |
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Personal Heritage |
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Rootsweb |
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Links to home page of one of the largest free genealogical websites. Many special interest pages can be accessed from here |
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Social Security Death Index |
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U. S. GenWeb |
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WorldGenWeb |
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The global equivilent to USGemweb covers more than 400 sites |
Genealogical Societies
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Brevard Genealogical Society |
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Cocoa, FL |
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Broward County, Genealogical Society of |
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Parkland, FL |
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Central Florida Genealogical Society |
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Orlando, FL |
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Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami |
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Daughters of the American Revolution |
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Ability to search the entire DAR library catalog |
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Federation of Genealogical Societies |
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Florida State Genealogical Society |
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Indian River Genealogical Society |
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Martin County Genealogical Society |
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Miami, Genealogical Society of Greater |
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New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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This website hosts its growing regional and national genealogical resources. The site contains all of the society's New England and New York content, features, articles, and resources, weekly updates, and more. |
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Palm Beach Co., Jewish Gen. Society of |
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Treasure Coast Genealogical Society |
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Fort Pierce, FL |
Digital Genealogy Book Sites
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BYU Family History Archives |
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A collection of over 38,000 digitized genealogies and family histories. It also includes county and local histories, how-to books, genealogy periodicals , medieval books, and gazetteers. |
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Digital Book Index |
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This index is a masive set of links to more than 145,00 online digital books in a variety of formats. Site includes more than 2,000 reference books and 15,000 volumes on North American history. There is also an alphabetical list of categories to assist in browsing. |
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Genealogy Book Links |
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"Simplifies searching for our ancestors by identifying and linking to the freely available digitized American biographies, genealogies, and history books." Those are their own words and the site is searchable by several criteria. |
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Google Book Search |
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A site where you can search for books on any subject, but especially valuable when searching for genealogy related books in the public domain. |
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HathiTrust |
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HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide. Collection is 10,000,000+ volumes consisting of over 5,000,000 titles. |
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Internet Archives |
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Internet Archives gas made available millions of digitized offerings (text, video, sound, etc.) Genealogy will yield over 50,000 returns. Narrow the research with a location or surname. Thousands of county and local histories. |
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Project Gutenberg |
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Project Gutenberg is the oldest website for free digital books with 28,000+ books. While there are relatively few books directly involving genealogy, there are numerous history and regional books. |
Education & News
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Ancestry Insider - Blog |
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This blogger is a current or former employee of the two biggest genealogy organizationsin the country. This blog offers straight talk and in-depth analysis on both. News you can't get elsewhere. |
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Antimated Atlas of the United States |
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A short video on the growth of the United Stateswith heavy reliance on an automated maps of the U.S. |
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Eastman's Online Newsletter |
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Converted from a newsletter to a blog in 2004. Dick Eastman has a background in computers so you'll find helpful articles on genealogy, computing, and software, plus genealogy industry news and events. |
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Family Matters - Blog |
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Denise Olson's tech-focused blog is a "must read" for keeping up with technology and genealogy. Olson is the go to person for anything technical. |
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Genealogy Guys - Blog |
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George Morgan and Drew Smith use this blog to publish notes from their free podcasts and videocasts. They answer questions from listeners, interview new product developers and genealogy event organizers. |
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Genealogy Tip of the Day - Blog |
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Short bursts of information to provide genealogical research help. |
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ISBN |
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ISBNdb.com project is a database of books providing on-line and remote research tools for individuals, book stores, librarians, scientists, etc. Taking data from hundreds of libraries across the world ISBNdb is a unique tool you won't find anywhere else. |
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Peoplefinders |
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This website contains lots of information to help you get started in genealogy. It includes a definition of genealogy, an introduction to, history of, a glossary of terms, several research guides, information on DNA testing, using maps for genealogy, software reviews, and much more. |
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Roots Television |
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Many short educational clips on a variety of genealogy topics. |
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