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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

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:

• "Delray Beach Memorial Gardens, Index of Burials, 1903-1987"
  
• "The Municipal Cemeteries of Lake Worth, Florida: Index of Burials, 1923-1997."
  
• "Woodlawn Cemetery, West Palm Beach, Florida, Index of Burials January 1905-December 1994."

Other Society Publications:

• "Index to Obituaries from the Palm Beach Post, 1980-1986" (soft bound)
  
• "Index to Area Deaths from the Palm Beach Post." (microfiche)

Additional resources in our library include:

• State, county and city histories relating to Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia are particularly numerous. Periodicals cover nearly every state.
• 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.
• Microfiche Index of State of Florida Marriages, Deaths and Divorces.
• The "International Genealogical Index" (IGI) [on Microfiche] and the "American Genealogical-Biographical Index" (AGBI) [on CD-ROM] are available.
• We have "Genealogical Periodical Annual Index" (GPAI) and "Periodical Source Index" (PERSI).
• 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."
• Indexes for military pension and service records, immigration and passenger lists, and censuses are in the collection.
• The Barbour and Hale Collections of Connecticut and the Voseburgh Collection of New York are on microfilm.
• 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
• Two microform reader/printers and a copier are available.

Miscellaneous Local Resources Links

PersonalHeritage.com	Rootsweb
Florida Facts and History	Florida GenWeb
USGenWeb

For more details about our publications, please call the Society
(561) 832-3279 or e-mail us at ancestry@pbcgensoc.org