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| Ancestry Library Edition (Library Resource - use this link inside the library)
Ancestry Library Edition (ALE) gives individuals something truly priceless: the chapters of their own authentic, unique family stories.
The world’s largest online collection of family history records and resources, ALE is a popular research tool. It offers a wide variety of unique content to help users trace their family lineage.
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| HeritageQuest Online (Library Resource-Use this link inside the library)
HeritageQuest Online combines digital, searchable images of US Federal Census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History book collection, and other valuable content.
HQO helps put family research in its historical, social and cultural context, with 21 million page images from materials such as: US Federal Census records from 1790–1930; over 22,000 family and local history books; Revolutionary War Pension a
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| HeritageQuest Online (Library Resource-Use this link outside the library)
HeritageQuest Online combines digital, searchable images of US Federal Census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History book collection, and other valuable content. HQO helps put family research in its historical, social and cultural context, with 21 million page images from materials such as: US Federal Census records from 1790–1930; over 22,000 family and local history books; Revolutionary War Pension an
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| Ancestry.com Learning Center
Available without a paid subscription. Look for help in the Articles Archive and Webinars. Discover more about your ancestry in just a few steps. You can begin your family tree, learn how to use records in your family search, connect with others who are seeking out their ancestors and find the answers to your tough research questions.
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| Castle Garden
CastleGarden.org is an educational project of The Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.
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| Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat), a UF Digital Collection
NewspaperCat currently links to over 1000 full-text newspaper titles with a goal to include links to as many US and Caribbean newspapers with archival digital content as possible.. Plans are to expand the Catalog as newly digitized newspaper titles are located.
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| Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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| Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Your genealogy starting point online for more than a decade!
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| Digital State Archives
Link to content posted by state governments who have been sifting through their historical archives and digitizing records.
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| Ellis Island
Search the Ellis Island Database by immigrant name alone or by name of ship that carried the immigrant to America. Also includes a Genealogy Learning Center.
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| Family History Forms from Mid-Continent Genealogy Library
Forms to print including pedigree charts, family group sheets, individual worksheets, research logs, and census forms.
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| FamilySearch
Free Family History, Family Tree, and Genealogy Records and Resources from Around the World
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| FamilySearch Research Wiki
Free family history research advice for the community, by the community
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| Find A Grave
Find A Grave is a resource for finding the final resting place of family, friends, and 'famous' individuals. With millions of names and photos, it is an invaluable tool for the genealogist and family history buff. Find A Grave memorials can contain rich content including photos, biographies and dates. Visitors can leave 'virtual flowers' on the memorials they visit, completing the online cemetery experience. Thousands of contributors submit new
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| Florida Archives & Manuscripts Repositories (UCF)
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| Florida Digital Newspaper Library (UF)
The Florida Digital Newspaper Library includes historic Florida newspapers and current papers digitized instead of being microfilmed. The list of currently published newspapers being digitized is online here: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/FDNL/queue.htm
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| Florida Memory Project
Florida Memory presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. The Project utilizes selected original records, photographs and other materials from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.
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| GenDisasters: Events that Touched our Ancestors Lives
Contains information on the historic disasters, events, and tragic accidents our ancestors endured, as well as, information about their life and death. Database and records searchable by surname. Find newspaper accounts of local disasters including Milton Fire of 1909; Milton Tornado of 1962; Gulf Breeze Tornado of 1971; and the Jay State Prison Road Camp Fire of 1967.
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| Genealogical Society of Santa Rosa County
Santa Rosa County GenWeb Project
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| Genealogy Inc
Each state has information on its history, discontinued and extinct counties, archives, museums and libraries, Historical & Genealogical Societies, links to state & county government, state & county genealogy links. It also explains the Family History and genealogical records available for the State and each county within that State.
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| Historical Atlases and Maps of U.S. and States
Each State page contains rotating animated maps showing all of the county boundary changes & all of the county boundaries for each census year for each year. Past and present maps of US are overlaid so that you can see the changes in county boundaries, downloadable County D.O.T. Maps, and state atlas maps.
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| Jay Historical Society and Museum
View items from the Jay Museum Collection in this virtual museum tour. Location: 3946 Highway 4, Jay, FL. Hours of operation: Fridays – 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
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| Periodical Source Index (PERSI)
PERSI is the premier subject index for genealogy and local history periodicals, and is produced by the staff of The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library. This valuable resource provides more than 3 million citations to readily-available periodical sources.
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| Rootsweb
Finding our roots together.
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| Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida
These maps were created for insurance purposes from 1860 through 1923. These maps show the size, shape and construction of buildings, dwellings (including hotels and churches), and other structures such as bridges, docks and barns. The maps include street names, property boundaries and lot lines, and house and block numbers.
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| Santa Rosa County Maps
Seventy maps of various kinds dating from 1839 to 2009 from Maps Etc – an online service of Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse.
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| Santa Rosa Historical Society
The Santa Rosa Historical Society, Inc. was chartered in 1974 and is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the identification, documentation and preservation of Santa Rosa County, Florida’s unique historical legacy. The Santa Rosa Historical Society is dedicated to the identification, documentation and preservation of Santa Rosa County, Florida’s unique historic legacy. We encourage you to share memories and artifacts, as well as,
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| U.S. National Archives "Know Your Records" - Video Instruction at YouTube
The National Archives has launched online videos of its most popular genealogy “how to” workshops. These videos cover “hot topics” in genealogical research such as census, immigration and military records. Now, these popular workshops led by National Archives experts are available on the National Archives YouTube channel.
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| The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)
The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections, containing over 12 million pages, covering over 78 thousand subjects in rare books, manuscripts, antique maps, children's literature, newspapers, theses and dissertations, data sets, photographs, oral histories, and more for permanent access and preservation. Through UFDC, users have free and Open Access to full unique and rare materials he
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