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Florida Collection January 2017
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They're Alive: Searching for Living Persons
Saturday, January 7,
11:00 am
John F. Germany Public Library - Auditorium
Searching for living relatives? The Florida Genealogical Society, in partnership with the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library, welcomes Thomas MacEntee, specialist in the use of technology and social media for genealogy research. MacEntee will share effective ways of finding living people using Internet search engines and resources. Open to the public.
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Finding My Family Tree
Saturday, January 21,
10:30 am
2 West - Florida History & Genealogy
If a tree exists, how do I find it and know it's accurate? If none exists, what do I do? Learn how to locate or research a branch of your family tree.
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Historic Oaklawn Cemetery Tour
Saturday, January 21,
12:15 pm
Event Location
Explore Tampa's first public cemetery, Oaklawn, established in 1850, and learn about the history of some of Tampa's legendary citizens. Find out how cemetery exploration can help you with personal genealogy. We will meet at Oaklawn Cemetery, 606 E. Harrison Street. Participants must register in advance: in-person, online or by calling 813-273-3652. Registration is limited to 15. Wear comfortable shoes.
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Tampa Bay's Beaches
by R. Wayne Ayers
The pace of redevelopment has accelerated in recent years along Tampa Bay’s gulf beaches, leaving tourists and residents alike in awe. This volume provides a glimpse at the beaches as they were and as they are today, and opens a whole new window to view the development that both enhances and threatens the barrier islands. Author R. Wayne Ayers and photographer Nancy Ayers, residents of Belleair Beach, are actively involved in chronicling and preserving the area’s past.
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A Guide to Historic Tampa Florida
by Steve Rajtar
Tampa—the town that began as a Civil War garrison, housed a cigar manufacturer’s dream, and became a city oasis in paradise. Tampa is a spicy mix of cultures and traditions, some from as far away as the tip of South America—others as homegrown as the cigars from old Ybor City. Whether you want to discover the city’s secrets, reminisce with the locals, or explore streets that retain the historic flavor of Old Florida, author and local historian Steve Rajtar guides you through the history and historic sites of beautiful old Tampa, with wonderful vintage photographs and street-by-street details of “The Cigar City.”
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Greetings from Tampa
by Donald D. Spencer
Over 300 postcards tell the story of Tampa's recent past, spanning the period from approximately 1902 to 1950, portraying people, street views, hotels, parks, transportation, businesses, government buildings, leisure activities, churches, gardens, schools, nearby communities and more. The resulting pictorial history forms a charming visual record of a Tampa that has largely vanished.
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Tampa in Civil War and Reconstruction
by Canter Brown
Instead of the mostly tranquil scenes of early Tampa previously depicted as the remote Gulf village of the 1860s and 1870s, historian Canter Brown, Jr., here reveals a place and time teeming with conflict, danger, treachery, privations, and disasters--natural and man-made. But, that is not all. The book sensitively explores the quiet--and sometimes not so quiet--heroism of men and women, black and white, who held their community together and who doggedly persisted in the belief that a better day would come.
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Ybor City Chronicles : A Memoir
by Ferdie Pacheco
With his gift for storytelling, Ferdie Pacheco stirs a gust of cigar smoke into the hot steam of café con leche and creates the magic of this lighthearted memoir. His stage is Ybor City, the colorful immigrant community on the edge of Tampa, and the time is 1935-45, the decade when Pacheco grew up and the community he loves outgrew its ethnic splendor.
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Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative (813) 273-3652 www.hcplc.org
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