Inside this issue:
• Florida Pioneer and Settler & Builder Awards FSGS
• Poolside Chats 2019
• The Scrapbook… A Look Back at Early Florida Families and People
• The Query Box…Do You Know?
• Book Reviews
The Florida Genealogist – Vol XLI – Issue 1 – June 2018
Inside this issue:
• Jefferson County Undertakers and Coffin Dealers Monthly Reports (1921 partial & 1932 partial)
• Florida Pioneer and Settler & Builder Awards
• FSGS Poolside Chats 2018
• Peninsular Local & Long Distance Telephone Company Plant City,
• Florida August 1924
• The Scrapbook a look back at early Florida families and people
• Book Reviews
Florida Agriculture and Our Florida Ancestors—Part 2
After the destruction of the French colony by Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, Menéndez had a fort built called San Augustin, with the intent of protecting the small settlement of farmers. Each farmer had been promised land as good as they left in Spain and were to also be given twelve head of stock.
Florida Pioneers – Proving Relationships
By: Amy Crabill Lay Proving kinship, or parent-child relationships, for the Florida Pioneer Descendant Certification Program can be very challenging and even a brick-wall for some. Probate records are an excellent resource in proving these relationships. Did you know that…
Florida Agriculture and Our Florida Ancestors – Part 1
Before Europeans came to Florida, some native Indian tribes practiced agriculture. Thanks to writings left by French and Spanish explorers, we know crops were produced as early as 1513. The tribes involved in this were the Apalachee in northwest Florida, Timucua in central Florida, and the Potano who lived in the Alachua plain.