Okaloosa County This site hosted by FLGENWEB Buttons on side are links to County, State, National resources. Important notice: all e-mail addresses found herein will begin with an "X" to thwart spammers. Simply remove the "X" before sending to recipient, please. Okaloosa County was formed in 1915 from parts of Santa Rosa and Walton Counties. The county seat was originally Milligan (1915-1917). Later it was moved to Crestview because of the possibility of flooding in Milligan. Since this is a relatively new county, most people are looking for relatives in the parent counties, however, there are great resources in Okaloosa for anyone doing research in the Panhandle. Don't forget to look in all the surrounding counties. As I have spread myself pretty thin, I have somewhat neglected this site and am sorry. I'll take a bit less orthodox tack and link to both the Baker Block Museum site  for new materials. I have been working on the Baker website for a long while, now and as they have such great resources for the area, it seemed a good idea not to split items between the two sites. We have been posting old newspapers in their entirety, scans of old maps, and other very useful items. New Mailing list: Subscribe to FLOkaloosa Email: Visit this group Florida GenWeb County List link ---------- Info on WFGS Conference ---------- As always, please let me know of things you may wish included here. Help is always appreciated! 1916 report on Choctawhatchee National Forest by WF Hill contains vignettes of many homesteaders living in the forest at that time. New section for uploading copies of hardcopy data. We encourage any who are willing to send copies of such things as birth, marriage or death certificates; funeral home records; homestead papers or other published sources you may have on people who lived in the area. You may also send tips for researchers. See the one Jo Nagel sent. We will post them so others may be able to access them. [Please remember to tell me in advance so I won't think I am receiving a virus.] Special GSOC Offer Heritage Museum of NW FL - at ValP Blurb about the museum and its facilities. Troy library - Many of you have researched there and know how wonderful it is. They are trying to get funding for a bigger facility. They actually have a building site and are hopeful that soon all will be in order for a completely new library, rather than the expansion that was previously planned. Please help if you can. Below is a search form for Okaloosa County Search The WebThis Site for Get a Free Search Engine for Your Web Site Below is a link to a search engine for Walton County Search the Walton County, Florida site Important disclaimer: The USGenWeb Project & FLGenWeb Project are non-commercial, all-volunteer organizations not connected in any way with USGenWeb, Inc., a for-profit Idaho corp. Items on these pages are copyrighted; each original author retains his or her own copyright as well. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals, Genealogical & Historical Societies, and libraries is encouraged (unless otherwise noted by author). This message must appear on all copied files. Commercial copying must have written permission from author. ©2008 Mary Ellen Wexler Comments? e-mail (remember to remove "X) Mary Ellen Wexler or, Tonia Porter Visit my EDGE home page at http://www.wexonline.net/welcome.htm