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Palm Beach County Genealogical Society,
Inc. provides links to local, national and international information
resources for researchers of family history.
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Palm
Beach County Genealogical Society
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 17617, West Palm Beach, FL 33416
Library
Location:
3650 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL
561-616-3455 ancestry@pbcgensoc.org
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Our holdings include approximately
11,000 books, over 150 CD-ROMs, an extensive collection of genealogical
periodicals, and a significant number of genealogy microfilms and
microfiche. We now have access on-line to the census images from essentially
all of the censuses through 1930.
Our volunteer staff are
there to help you in your research and to answer your questions.
In fulfillment of its mission to
collect, conserve and disseminate genealogical and related information,
the Society publishes a quarterly bulletin, "Ancestry."
Some Major Holdings
of the genealogy library include:
Barbour Collection - General Index
Barbour Collection - Vital Records
Bussy Collection - Irish Books
Passenger & Immigration Indexes Vol. 1 to current
New England Register 1847 to current
American State Papers Indexes
The American Genealogist Vol. 1 to current
The Genealogist Vol. 1 to current
DAR Lineage Books, Vol. 1 - 166
Mayflower Descendant Vol. 1 to current
The Rebellion Record 12 vols.
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 6 v.
Southern Historical Society Papers, 52 vols.
Surname File - 200,000 names and growing
Boston Transcripts (Microfiche)
The Mary & John (Passengers)
The Society has also compiled
and produced hard bound Burial Indexes:
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"Delray Beach Memorial
Gardens, Index of Burials, 1903-1987"
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"The Municipal Cemeteries
of Lake Worth, Florida: Index of Burials, 1923-1997."
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"Woodlawn Cemetery,
West Palm Beach, Florida, Index of Burials January 1905-December
1994."
Other Society Publications:
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"Index to Obituaries
from the Palm Beach Post, 1980-1986" (soft bound)
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"Index to Area Deaths
from the Palm Beach Post." (microfiche)
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Additional resources in our library
include:
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State, county and city histories
relating to Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania
and Virginia are particularly numerous. Periodicals cover nearly
every state.
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Over 1000 family histories.
A surname card file with over 170,000 index cards and loose leaf
or manuscript materials sorted by surname, supplement bound materials.
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Microfiche Index of State of
Florida Marriages, Deaths and Divorces.
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The "International Genealogical
Index" (IGI) [on Microfiche] and the "American Genealogical-Biographical
Index" (AGBI) [on CD-ROM] are available.
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We have "Genealogical
Periodical Annual Index" (GPAI) and "Periodical Source
Index" (PERSI).
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All issues of the "New
England Historic and Genealogical Register" (HisGen), "The
American Genealogist" (TAG), and "Mayflower Descendants"
are available. We have 166 volumes of DAR Lineage books and the
complete set of "Founders and Patriots."
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Indexes for military pension
and service records, immigration and passenger lists, and censuses
are in the collection.
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The Barbour and Hale Collections
of Connecticut and the Voseburgh Collection of New York are on
microfilm.
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Computers are available for
viewing our growing CD-ROM collection. We have high speed
internet capability for accessing
not only the free information on the internet, but also data
which we pay to access (i.e. all censuses, SSDI, immigration lists,
Civil War records, WWI draft registration cards, etc
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Two microform reader/printers
and a copier are available.
Miscellaneous Local Resources
Links
For more details about our publications,
please call the Society
(561) 832-3279 or e-mail us at ancestry@pbcgensoc.org
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