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and history of the area.
Genealogical
Society
Of Okeechobee
P.O. Box 371
Okeechobee, FL 34973
Big Lake Family History Society
c/o Okeechobee County Public Library
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Okeechobee County
Florida Genealogy & Family History Resources
Cities,
Towns, Villages & Communities:
Basinger, Fort Drum, Okeechobee, Sherman
Established: May 8, 1917
Parent County: Brevard
County Seat: Okeechobee
Adjacent
Counties:
Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Osceola, Palm
Beach, Polk, Saint Lucie
Name
Origin:
Okeechobee County was named for Lake Okeechobee
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- Florida
Death Index 1877-1939
FamilySearch.org - A service
provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Florida
Marriage 1877-1974
FamilySearch.org - A service
provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Social
Security Death Index

The Social Security Administration Death Master File
contains information on millions of deceased individuals
with United States social security numbers whose deaths
were reported to the Social Security Administration. This
file now contains over 89 million death records.
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| Census,
Voter and Tax Records |
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1880 Okeechobee County, Florida US Federal Census Free
Online
FamilySearch.org
- Okeechobee
County, Florida Federal Census Index
US-Census.org
- Links
to Online Census Records Okeechobee Co., Florida
Census-Online.com: The
web's largest directory of links to online census transcriptions!
This directory includes links to federal censuses and
indexes, state and territorial censuses, tax lists, voter
lists, military pensioner lists, etc.
- Census
Records for Latin America and the Hispanic United States
Genealogical.com
- The
Last Days of British Saint Augustine, 1784-1785
A Spanish Census of the English
Colony of East Florida ~ Genealogical.com
- Search
the United States Indian Census 1885-1940
Ancestry.com ~ The Indian Census schedules
are census rolls usually submitted each year by agents
or superintendents in charge of Indian reservations, as
required by an act of 4 July 1884 (23 Stat. 98).
- View
Census Records Online at Ancestry.com!

Free Trial Available. View all original federal
census records taken every 10 years from the first census
in 1790 through the 1930 census. You can also view some
state census records. The 1940 census will not be released
by the federal government until 2012.
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- Okeechobee
County Florida Migrations Project
They came for a season, they left and went where? Why
did they go and who went with them? So many questions
about the migrations of our ancestors.
- Passenger
and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Updated annually, this database
is an index to passengers who arrived in United States
and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It
contains listings of approximately 4,588,000 individuals
and references thousands of different records compiled
from everything from original passenger lists to personal
diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the
following information: name, age, year and place of arrival,
and the source of the record.
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City & Farm Directories |
- Search
City & Farm Directories
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized
images available with fee-based subscription
Ancestry.com ~ Free Trial Available
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