The West Branch has Re-Opened!

The West Hernando branch, at 6335 Blackbird Ave, off Cortez near Weeki Wachee, is open again.

Scottish graveyard inscriptions

One million gravestones from 800 cemeteries.  The link is here. 

What is Genealogy? Ask A Kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQPweb387w 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sfOggdClV8

Florida Mortality Schedules

 Click here to read about and search this valuable resource at the Florida Memory Project database. A link to Florida Memory is available on the library website under the Database tab on the home page.

Ancestry adds new marriage database

 Ancestry.com, available in the library's e-resources, has added the Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection, including wedding announcements from 1800-1999. Announcements from 2000 to the present time will be added next year.

To access Ancestry (from in the library only), hover over "Databases" on our home page, then click on e-resources for adults. Ancestry is the first database listed. This article includes further instructions on how to access the index.

Genealogy Standards: Numbering systems

 Here  in a 2003 article from Genealogy.com about the value of using standard numbering systems in ancestral trees to avoid confusion 

Internet Archive

Search the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) for texts, videos, and audio recordings related to genealogy. We searched "Florida Genealogy", for example, and our results ranged from census data on microform to University of Florida yearbooks to "Genealogy Notes on the Frisbie Family".  Another online source for genealogy works: hathitrust.org