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Hello, my name is Darrel R. Bell and I am, once
again, your host for the
Miami-Dade County, Florida website. In the near future I will be making
changes with all associated web pages and revising the links to Dade
County which will make it much easier to access.
If you are interested in posting queries on this website, please contact me with Dade Co. Query in the subject line and I will add it to the list.
"Surnames" will be also included in a database with your name and e-mail address where others with the same name may contact you.
Miami-Dade County is full of mystery from a Genealogical and Historical aspect. I hope to be able to entertain each and everyone by pleasing your individual interest of this county's genealogy and history. Feel free to contact me with any subject matter you may wish to contribute to this site and/or the Florida GenWeb Archives. If you have material you wish to donate to the FLgenWeb Archives you can contact our Archivist Janet Steadham directly. One note regarding the Archives, we cannot post any material that has been previously copyrighted by someone else. With the exception being a copyright release is obtained from the owner of the material. A copy of this permission should be sent to the Archivist.
If you have any cd's, books or other materials related to Dade County and would be willing to help your fellow researchers by doing lookups of small amounts of material, please email me with the name of the resource, your name and email address, and any special instructions you may have for lookup requests.
Dade County, Florida genealogical website has been created for you, the researcher in mind.
UPDATE! Our archivist; Janet Steadham has let me known that there are several new Obituary files posted in the archives. They are listed on this page:
Of Special Notice
You can get a copy of a obit sent to you for $5 from the genealogy dept of the Miami Public Library - Main Branch, Genealogy Department, 101 West Flagler ST, Miami, FL, 33130, Tel: 305-375-5580.
While the modern history of Dade County begins with the arrival of the first permanent white settlers, in the early part of the 19th century, the remoteness of the area limited its development to a handful of farms and plantations, plus a few small settlements, until the arrival of the railroad in 1896. The city of Miami was incorporated in the same year.
The original Dade County settlements were all built near the Biscayne Bay, but the great influx of new residents, in the early 1900s, made it necessary to build canals to drain the uninhabitable land of the Everglades. The steady arrival of newcomers gave way to the Florida Land Boom of the 1920's, but transportation problems, a major hurricane and, finally, the Great Depression, brought the Boom to a halt.
Steady growth continued, however, and in the years following World War Two, the county has become a major metropolitan area. The arrival of Cuban refugees in the 1960s and 1980s, plus a large influx of other immigrants, has transformed Dade into a multi-cultural society.
In 1991, the population of Dade County was nearly two million. Tourism and transportation are among the major industries, along with light industry, construction and fishing. There are twenty-five incorporated towns and cities in the county. The largest, at around 350,000 people, is the county seat, Miami.
In review, Dade
County was officially organized from Monroe County February 4,
1836.
Some one hundred sixty one years later, November 13, 1997, Miami -Dade
County has emerged. As with any change in a political structure,
the voters decided that increased name recognition was worth the change.
(Reference The
Florida Handbook 1999-2000, p. 445.)
In 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Florida GenWeb Project, modeled after a project originally started in the state of Kentucky. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Florida, where collected databases and information on genealogy in the state could be stored. At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of data.
New archive search for FLDADE Mailing list
FLGenWeb
is
part of theUSGenWeb Project.
Send comments
about Dade County, FL Webpage to
Darrel R. Bell
Page updated
January 1, 2006 2:30 a.m.