Santa Rosa County, Florida:
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Projects

• Santa Rosa County FLGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Santa Rosa County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Santa Rosa FLGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Escambia County, AL  to the north
• Escambia County, FL  to the west
• Okaloosa County, FL  to the east

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

• Santa Rosa Co, Florida, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Santa Rosa County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Santa Rosa County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)

Cemeteries

• Billion Graves for Santa Rosa County, Florida      (Source: Billion Graves)
• Confederate Soldiers at Coon Hill Cemetery      (Source: USGenWeb)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)
• Santa Rosa County      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Santa Rosa County  Florida Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Santa Rosa County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)

Census Records and Indexes (28)

Court and Legal Records

• Chancery orders, 1892-1926      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Santa Rosa County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• Santa Rosa County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)

Directories

• 1st Voters Registration  February 18, 1842     (Source: USGenWeb)
• Election Inspectors and Judges, 1910      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Florida Pioneer Descendants      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Physicians and Coroners      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Santa Rosa County Business Licenses      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Santa Rosa County Sheriffs: 1842-2000      (Source: USGenWeb)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Santa Rosa County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Santa Rosa County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Santa Rosa County     (Source: FamilySearch)

Estate Records

• Florida Probate Records  1784-1990     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Florida Wills and Probate Records, 1827-1950  includes Santa Rosa County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Probate Index      (Source: USGenWeb)

History

• National Register of Historic Places      (Source: National Register of Historic Places)
• Santa Rosa County  Handbook of Florida, page 122, 1891     (Source: USF Libraries Digital Collections)
• Santa Rosa County  Webb's historical, industrial and biographical Florida, 1885     (Source: Florida Heritage Collection)
• Santa Rosa County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Santa Rosa County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Santa Rosa County, Florida      (Source: LandmarkHunter.com)

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Identification and Evaluation of Submerged Magnetic Anomalies  Deadmans Island Santa Rosa County, Florida     (Source: Internet Archive)
  • The Gulf Breeze Story 

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events (11)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Florida locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Santa Rosa County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Santa Rosa County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• Reconstructed Tract Books      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Santa Rosa County Deeds and Indexes      (Source: FamilySearch)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Santa Rosa County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Escambia, Santa Rosa Counties     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Jay Historical Society & Museum 
• Library Directory for Santa Rosa County, Florida      (Source: libraries.org - A directory of libraries throughout the world)
• Navarre Florida Family History Center      (Source: FamilySearch)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Santa Rosa County, Florida     (Source: Find My Past)
• Santa Rosa County Digital Library and Archives      (Source: The FLGenWeb Project, Inc.)
• University Archives and West Florida History Center  acquires, preserves, catalogs, and provides reference services to research materials which document the history and development of Pensacola and the West Florida region (ten counties of the Florida Panhandle, between the Perdido and Apalachicola Rivers) from earliest settlement to the present time.
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

• Santa Rosa County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• FLROSA Santa Rosa County genealogy

  • FLROSA Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• Brown, Camp, Santa Rosa Island, FL  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Santa Rosa County, Florida     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • Confederate Soldiers at Coon Hill Cemetery      (Source: USGenWeb)
  • Florida CSA Pension Application Files      (Source: USGenWeb)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Santa Rosa County - Barred and Disallowed Claims     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)

• Mexican American War

  • Company A, Florida Volunteers aka "Kelly's Company"      (Source: USGenWeb)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Santa Rosa County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Miscellaneous Data

• County Voter Registration Records  1867-1905     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Santa Rosa County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Santa Rosa County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Santa Rosa County newspapers      (Source: Florida Digital Newspaper Library)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• 1910-1911 Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Milton Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Milton, Florida Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Santa Rosa County Obituaries  1913-1915     (Source: USGenWeb)
• Sheehan Funeral Home  Brooksville and Spring Hill, Florida
• Spring Hill Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historical Postcards of Santa Rosa County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Santa Rosa County Courthouse 
• Santa Rosa County Historical Images 
• West Florida Photohistory 

School Records and Histories

• Jay School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Milton School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Teachers for 1913-14 School Year      (Source: USGenWeb)

Societies

• The Genealogical Society of Santa Rosa County 
• Gulf Breeze Area Historical Society 
• Jay Historical Society 
• Panhandle Historic Preservation Alliance 
• Panhandle Historic Preservation Alliance      (Source: Facebook)
• The Santa Rosa Historical Society 
• The Santa Rosa Historical Society      (Source: Facebook)
• Winding Waters Chapter  Spring Hill     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (34)

Transportation and Industry

• Bagdad Naval Outer Landing Field  Bagdad, Florida     (Source: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields)
• Building histories of Santa Rosa 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  Santa Rosa County, Florida     (Source: Google Patents)
• Santa Rosa County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Station Santa Rosa  Coast Guard Station #212
• U.S. Highway 90  Old Spanish Trail - Historic State Route 1

Vital Records

• Delayed Birth Certificates      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Florida County Marriages, 1823-1982  includes Santa Rosa County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Florida Marriages, 1830-1993  includes Santa Rosa County     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Official Records Search  includes Death Certificates (1983-now) and Marriage Records (November 1984-now)
• Santa Rosa County Marriage Records      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Santa Rosa County Marriages  1907 through 1935     (Source: USGenWeb)
• Santa Rosa County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Santa Rosa Marriage Index 1869-1899      (Source: USGenWeb)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Santa Rosa County, Florida     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Wiki

• Santa Rosa County, Florida Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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