I would urge genealogists looking for photographs to also consider the Special Collections departments of the State University Libraries. For example, in our own collections here, we have 20-30,000 photographs of regional people, buildings, maps, etc. as well as public domain Florida images taken from the original books and printings on our shelves. Many images available in Florida archival repositories at Universities, historical societies, and the like are simply not avaliable from the Florida Photographic Archives. Our photographic services charges less than $2.00 for an 8 x 10 photo reproduction, and we have provided thousands of photographs to book editors, historians, genealogists, restaurants, and others. I would note that our collection (except for Florida in general prior to 1870) tends to pertain mainly to the panhandle region of Florida (ten counties) which include Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City and these environs. Dean Dean DeBolt, University Librarian Special Collections and West Florida Archives University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 Tele: 850-474-2213. Fax: 850-474-3338. E-mail: ddebolt@uwf.edu ---------------------------------------------------- Reach me by ICQ. My ICQ# is 14599771 or, * Page me online through my Personal Communication Center: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/14599771 (go there and try it ----------------------------------------------------

The url is http://www.dos.state.fl.us/dlis/dlis.html about the middle of the page is the option for the catolog -Subject: Re: FL Archives <snip> but can you tell me how to get into >the Florida state Archives?

I have add links on the Gulf County Genealogical Society webpage to the photos that have to do with Gulf County that is online at the Florida Archives Photo collection. I was surprised to find them. They're a great addition to the Societies webpage. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5551//gcgsfl.html Wendy

Doctor Flavius Augustus Byrd, son of Nathan Byrd of North Carolina, was born April 16, 1822 and died December 26, 1874. On March 3, 1853, in Leon County, Florida, he married Catharine D. Lloyd. If you have any information concerning the above, please e-mail me. John Byrd jbyrd16476@ij.net

This came from another list. Mind boggling, uh??? >: >: Generation >: 01 > 1 totals YOU >: 02 > 2 3 parents >: 03 > 4 7 grandparents >: 04 > 8 15 great grandparents >: 05 > 16 31 gg grandparents >: 06 > 32 63 ggg grandparents >: 07 > 64 127 gggg grandparents >: 08 > 128 255 ggggg grandparents >: 09 > 256 511 gggggg grandparents >: 10 > 512 1,021 ggggggg grandparents >: 11 > 1,024 2,045 gggggggg grandparents >: 12 > 2,048 4,093 ggggggggg grandparents >: 13 > 4,096 8,189 gggggggggg grandparents >: 14 > 8,192 16,381 ggggggggggg grandparents >: 15 > 16,384 32,765 gggggggggggg grandparents >: 16 > 32,768 65,533 ggggggggggggg grandparents >: 17 > 65,536 131,069 gggggggggggggg grandparents >: 18 > 131,072 262,141 ggggggggggggggg grandparents >: 19 > 262,144 524,285 gggggggggggggggg grandparents >: 20 > 524,288 1,048,573 ggggggggggggggggg grandparents >: >: So in 20 generations over a million people have participated in making >: you what/who you are. No wonder genealogy is an endless hobby! >: >: >: >: >: = > > >==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== >Welcome to the VA-SOUTHSIDE mailing list! This list is for >genealogy researchers of the counties of: Amelia, Appomattox, >Brunswick, Charlotte, Dinwiddie, Franklin, Greensville, >Halifax, Henry, Isle of Wight, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, >Nottway, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Prince George, >Southampton, Surry, and Sussex. It also includes the cities >of: Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Danville, Suffolk, >Emporia, South Boston, Franklin, and Martinsville. > > > > > > >

Floridian Thomas Benton Ellis served in Company C, the Hernando (Florida) Wildcats, during the Civil War. His manuscript, an account of his experiences during that war, has been published by The Genealogy Society of Hernando County. The book is enriched by the addition of notes from research by Roger R. Landers. Along with considerable information about the Ellis family, the book includes early Hernando County settlers Hope, Lesley, McKay, and Saxon. THE LAST WILDCAT may be ordered for $5 plus $1.50 for mailing from G.S.H.C., Attn: Book Sales, P.O. Box 1793, Brooksville, FL 34605-1793. Kathleen Marsh kmarsh@innet.com Secretary GSHC

Don't know if anyone has visited the FL state Archives site lately or not. I was impressed!!!!! Went to the online catalog and used their search engine to search for some of my family surnames, Mickler, Baisden, and Peterson. Mixed bag of luck. What came back were references to people with those surnames and the reference source. You can click on the source to see if it is available for interlibrary loan or in the non circulating stackes and tell, if the book is available for loan, whether or not the book is checked out. This is a big help for me trying to do research from the wilds of Idaho's lava rock desert! Deborah Byrd

Hello group, I have been trying to send this message for a week now. I am wondering if anyone has a copy of census records for BREVARD PINELLAS MARION HILLSBOROUGH AND POLK counties. I need several lookups, and would be willing to pay for a copy. I live in Ga, and the library here does not have them. Does any one have any ideas? Nicole barnes n.barnes@mindspring.com BARNES HUDNELL HUMMER MEADOWS ROUSSEAU

Betty... I heard about the same as to the proposed strip mining having been prevented. More "sensitive" is being/or was swapped for less "sensitive" land. That's better than the alternative... but I don't think all of the problem went away... just the worst parts of it; and besides a whole bunch of land is still going to be liquidized, run through a strainer, and poured back like jello into a mold. The natural consitency is lost, all of the things that geologically had settled out of the ocean and/or wherever in layers over the course of millenias of time are blended into a homogenous mass that takes centuries just to dry out fully, absorbtion of ground water into the aquifers is disrupted... even with the cosmetic plantings of things that will grow in that mess, etc. the "restored" land is not real land anymore and it does not function as real land would function... in some ways for months, in other ways for centuries, and in still other ways possibly "forever". Critters can be "saved" and moved, but some critters cannot live in the "restored" land... perhaps for a long, long, long time. I seriously doubt that anybody knows exactly what the really long term results will be on plants, animals, or humans (as if we aren't animals too). Nobody who could actually say "no" and make it stick ever seems to worry about things like that when doing so might stand between them and a paycheck. (Nothing personal is intended by saying that, Betty.) My admittedly somewhat jaundiced and exaggerated analogy would be to take a person, grind and Osterize their body into a liquid, extract a few key chemicals, minerals, whatever... and when done pour the result into a human shaped jello mold and sew its own old skin back over it... then paint a smile on its face, stick some new clothes on it and loudly proclaim "what a good boy am I" over the "restored" blob of jelly. That thing that was once a living human ain't ever gonna play the violin or become a rocket scientist. It's just sludge and muck reshaped to resemble what it used to be. Restoration is better than non-restoration but it really is cosmetic, superficial, and I believe... ineffectual. It just hides the problem. The land is dead and useless except as a kind of a sad pretense performed by growing plants and animals that are adaptable enough to stand it, on the sludge. A lot of what is being done... Hell, almost all of what is being done through restoration was forced on the mining corporations in Florida by passage of laws They would be happy as pigs in poop if they could still just be pigs in poop. Now all that said and done, I'm sorry I brought the subject up. I think that it initially had marginal relevance to the purpose of this list. I guess that there is such a "history" of strip mining already in Florida that would be a legitimate subject of discussion. But we are getting further and further afield all the time. We are arguing environmental issues, not factually documenting history. Or maybe it has really been me that has driven this discussion over there. So far as I know, there is nobody minding the store on this list... or at least I haven't seen any overt signs of it. Somebody somewhere "owns" the list and would no doubt show up and knock heads big time if he or she found out that someone had started uploading copyrighted computer programs to it for free download or setting up a pornographic solicitation service through it, because of their exposure to legal liability for allowing such activities. If that is true, it means that we have to keep some kind of rein on ourselves. I haven't seen any complaints yet, but they will probably come... very soon: "I'm getting too many messages and they are not what the list is about. I hate you all. Get me off of this list right now. How do I get away from this list, it is not what it is supposed to be, etc." So I'm going to try real hard to put a cork in it and go sit on my hands in the corner for awhile on the subject of the evils of strip mining. The subject has probably gained a life of its own by now and will keep generating new messages for a few days, but hopefully that will soon go away and the gentle hum of people researching Florida history and genealogy will resume. I'm sorry folks. I've just been a blabbermouth and got way "off task". I'll try really hard to "be good and not do it again." RW BettyMaeS@aol.com wrote: > > I don't think the permits went thru for the mining of the Okeefenokee ...I > believe I read about a land swap and the Okeefenokee was saved. > > I work for an open pit mining company and we move all animals, yes all that we > can find before mining. Gophers and all. We are now building a special lake > for a bald eagle. Land is reclaimed and a lot of wet lands are built. IF you > have never seen reclaimed land in Polk Co FL you should take a drive and see > what has been done. Our company usually has the land reclaimed in two years > or less. > > Betty

1885 Jackson Co FL Census Index.....it is a big file... <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/bettymaes/1885Cens.html"> http://hometown.aol.com/bettymaes/1885Cens.html</A> Betty

Thanks Tem, Tem, would you tell me, is Plant City in Florida or Texas? While I do not think there is a connection in this case unfortunately as the eldest daughter would only been 8 years old in 1952, I will follow-up, as I am having no luck with all the other avenues I have followed. I believe also that my Smither family originated in New York It may be that there is a remote family connection that I am unaware of. Thanks again, Don At 21:32 21/11/98 -0600, you wrote: >Don, >I graduated from Plant City FL High School in 1953 with a Sylvia >Smither. She was listed as Sylvia Smithers in the 1951 annual and >Sylvia Smither in the 1952 annual. I have since moved from Plant City >and don't know if she is still in that area. There are some people on >this list in Plant City and they may know where she and her family may >have moved. Good hunting. > >Tem Moody in Marble Falls, TX > >Don Reynolds wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am searching for family of SMITHER, >> Head, Paul LeRoy SMITHER, ex US Navy rose to Commander of Submarine. >> Wife, Jane (nee REYNOLDS)(my first cousin) born abt 1910, died abt 1956. >> They were married in New York in 1942 >> Children, Susan, born 3 March 1944, Married name believed to be MONAHAN. >> Georgina, born 2 Sept 1945 Marital status unknown >> Alyce, born 29 Oct 1946 Marital status unknown >> Carol, born Dec 1948 Marital status unknown >> Paul Reynolds (AKA Rennie), born 8 Jan 1953 >> Richard John, born Sept 1954 >> Believe to have lived in Memphis, Tenn. during and immediatly after WW2. >> moved to Florida and was there during the 50's-60's. Some members believed >> to live now in NY or NJ >> If anyone knows whereabouts please advise me or ask them to contact me. >> >> Thank you, Don, in Sydney, Australia. > >

I don't think the permits went thru for the mining of the Okeefenokee ...I believe I read about a land swap and the Okeefenokee was saved. I work for an open pit mining company and we move all animals, yes all that we can find before mining. Gophers and all. We are now building a special lake for a bald eagle. Land is reclaimed and a lot of wet lands are built. IF you have never seen reclaimed land in Polk Co FL you should take a drive and see what has been done. Our company usually has the land reclaimed in two years or less. Betty

Linda... If I had been willing to pull a name out of my hat, it would have probably been Dow. But frankly I don't remember at all, and that name probably just came to my mind because of it's production of Agent Orange for the Vietnam War. Occidental is surely a good candidate. Monsanto would do... or that French company that owned the huge gypsum pile that used to (and may still for all I know) teeter and collapse into Tampa Bay and kill all of those fish every time it rained hard. The possibilities are extensive, and all the same to me. We don't need most of the crap they make. It's mostly wasted and thrown away. But as long as they market, we consume (the very earth itself)... create mildly radioactive gellid pools of mud that will exist for millenia where real land once stood, and slowly foul our own nest... so long as we do these things... we seal a very bad fate of our descendants in the not very distant future. To me, that's sort of the opposite of genealogy. I would call it extinctionology (to coin a term). It doesn't matter which corporation it is. Corporations are a portable shell game, and the suckers (i.e., most people) never win. Florida is already extensively riddled with enormous open pits full of mine tailings. They used to be blatently visible. My perception is that they are often well hidden today, but boy are they invidious. My guess is that all of Florida will be strip mined within another 100 years. But I have no real information. I made that estimate up. The thing about the Okeechobee/Suwannee area is that it is/was basically pristine. RW Linda Johns wrote: > Are you referring to Occidental Chemical? If so, they mined a large > portion of Hamilton county. That plant now belongs to PCS Phosphate. > > Linda Johns in Lake City

Don, I graduated from Plant City FL High School in 1953 with a Sylvia Smither. She was listed as Sylvia Smithers in the 1951 annual and Sylvia Smither in the 1952 annual. I have since moved from Plant City and don't know if she is still in that area. There are some people on this list in Plant City and they may know where she and her family may have moved. Good hunting. Tem Moody in Marble Falls, TX Don Reynolds wrote: > > Hi, > > I am searching for family of SMITHER, > Head, Paul LeRoy SMITHER, ex US Navy rose to Commander of Submarine. > Wife, Jane (nee REYNOLDS)(my first cousin) born abt 1910, died abt 1956. > They were married in New York in 1942 > Children, Susan, born 3 March 1944, Married name believed to be MONAHAN. > Georgina, born 2 Sept 1945 Marital status unknown > Alyce, born 29 Oct 1946 Marital status unknown > Carol, born Dec 1948 Marital status unknown > Paul Reynolds (AKA Rennie), born 8 Jan 1953 > Richard John, born Sept 1954 > Believe to have lived in Memphis, Tenn. during and immediatly after WW2. > moved to Florida and was there during the 50's-60's. Some members believed > to live now in NY or NJ > If anyone knows whereabouts please advise me or ask them to contact me. > > Thank you, Don, in Sydney, Australia.

Richard White wrote: > > Should we tell her that "Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away?" > > I forget the multinational chemical company's name, but they basically > wanted to strip mine a huge chunk of the headwaters of the Suwannee and > its geological boundary with the Okeefenokee the last I heard. Dunno > the status of that, but bits of the Okeefenokee will probably start > showing up in toothpaste, laundry detergent, high explosives... and/or > whatever any day now, if not already there. > > RW > > MarkTAC@aol.com wrote: > > > > Karen, > > > > It is the Okeefenokee Swamp. It is on the GA/FL line, to the east of > > Tallahassee. The Suwannee River begins in it. > > > > Mark Thomas Richard, Are you referring to Occidental Chemical? If so, they mined a large portion of Hamilton county. That plant now belongs to PCS Phosphate. Linda Johns in Lake City

Should we tell her that "Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away?" I forget the multinational chemical company's name, but they basically wanted to strip mine a huge chunk of the headwaters of the Suwannee and its geological boundary with the Okeefenokee the last I heard. Dunno the status of that, but bits of the Okeefenokee will probably start showing up in toothpaste, laundry detergent, high explosives... and/or whatever any day now, if not already there. RW MarkTAC@aol.com wrote: > > Karen, > > It is the Okeefenokee Swamp. It is on the GA/FL line, to the east of > Tallahassee. The Suwannee River begins in it. > > Mark Thomas

Helmut... That should be Volusia Co. for Ormond Beach and Martin Co., I think, for Hobe Sound. If not, then it's Palm Beach. If you are not going to look it up, I'm not either. I know that you are in Deutschland (Wie Geht es Ihnen! Was ist los?), but you should be able to find that sort of thing out by using any world wide web search engine. RW Helmut Neuner wrote: > > Hello, > I am new on this list. Can anyone help me ?? > What is the county name for Hobe Sound and Ormond Beach. > Many thanks for a reply. > Helmut Neuner

I'm overwhelmed by the response I've received to my inquiry about Okefenokee Swamp. Now that I've looked at the map again, I can't believe I didn't see it before!!!! MANY THANKS to everyone who sent me an e-mail with the info I wanted. You're a great bunch! Karen

It may be the "Okefenokee Swamp" located near Waycross Ga. My gggrandmother Laura Singleton Walker wrote extensively about this area. The Laura S. Walker State Park in Waycross is named after her. I live in the Jacksonville area. If I can help please let me know. William Arthur Collins iv Seeking, Collins, Walker, Postell, Singleton, Grayson, Armstrong, Cater, Taylor, I feel as if the "BRANCH" of my Family tree has truly been used for firewood, somewhere. IGOTAV8@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to put my grandmother's old projector film on video tapes for > Christmas presents for relatives. She has listed on one piece of film that > it contains footage of "Okerfenober Swamp". Can anyone tell me if this is > spelled correctly and what and where it is? This film also is of a trip to > Jacksonville, Florida, so I thought maybe some of you Florida genealogists > could help a fellow genealogist. > > Thanks, > > Karen Beck > igotav8@aol.com