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Projects

• Polk County FLGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Polk County Florida INDEPENDENT History & Genealogy Page 
• Polk County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties (10)

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• History of Polk County Florida, narrative and biographical      (Source: Floridiana on the Web)
• Lakeland GEDCOM Index 
• Past Presidents of Florida Southern College 
• Polk County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Polk County GEDCOM Index 
• Winter Haven GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (11)

Census Records and Indexes (14)

Court and Legal Records

• Public Records Online! 

Directories

• Florida Voter Registration Lists 1867-68      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Lakeland City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

History (54)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Florida locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Polk County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Polk County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Polk County Florida Genealogy  Resources for Family History Research     (Source: Kindred Trails)
• Polk County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Polk County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Polk Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Polk County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Osceola, Polk Counties     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (11)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Polk County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Polk County, FL Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• CENTRAL-FLORIDA-L For anyone with a genealogical interest in central Florida including the following counties that were formed during the 1800s: Alachua, Brevard, Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake, Levy, Manatee, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Polk, Sumter, and Volusia.

  • CENTRAL-FLORIDA-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CENTRAL-FLORIDA-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • CENTRAL-FLORIDA-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• FLPOLK-L Polk County genealogy

  • FLPOLK-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • FLPOLK-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • FLPOLK-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• Arbuckle, Fort, FL  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Cummings, Fort, FL  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Davenport, Fort, FL  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Frazer, Fort, FL  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Polk County, Florida     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Meade, Fort, FL  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  La Fayette, Leon, Levy, Madison, Manatee, Monroe, Nassau, Polk, Sumter, Suwannee, Taylor and Washington Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • Confederate Pension Application Files Index      (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)

• World War I

  • 1917-18 Civilian Draft Registration (A - D)      (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)
  • 1917-18 Civilian Draft Registration (E - K)      (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)
  • 1917-18 Civilian Draft Registration (L - R)      (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)
  • 1917-18 Civilian Draft Registration (S - Z)      (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)
  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Polk County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Polk County, Florida  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Migrations through Polk County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Polk County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Polk County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Who are the Cattle Kings? 

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (16)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (23)

School Records and Histories

• 1918 Honor Roll, Haines City      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Florida Southern College, Lakeland  Historic Campus Architecture Project
• Graduates of (Florida) Southern College, 1890 to 1934 
• Lakeland High School, 1925  Students and Faculty     (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)
• Lakeland High School, 1926  Students and Faculty     (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)
• Lakeland School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Winter Haven School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Polk County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies (12)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (194)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Polk County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Polk County, Florida     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Polk County Florida Marriage Book  1862-1881     (Source: USGenWeb Florida Archives)
• Polk County Marriage Records      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Polk County Marriages  1862-1881
• Polk County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Polk, Florida  South Carolina Death Records, including Undertaker's Certificates for Interstate Shipping, etc.     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Polk County, Florida     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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