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==Online research==
===Publications===
The ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]'' is the newspaper-of-record for the Pensacola area. It has produced some of the most thorough and reliable coverage of local events. Unfortunately, only Their online archive includes electronic texts of articles from since 1999 are available in the online . '''This archivecan be accessed for free with a [[West Florida Public Library]] card number.''' Otherwise, and any archived articles older than a week must be purchased. However, due to the 'inverted triangle' format of journalistic reporting, but many of the most important details (dates, names, etc.) can be found in gleaned from the first few sentences provided abstracts available for free. Dates are often listed as days of the week relative to the publication date, in which case a "day of the week calculator" is helpful in determining the month and day.*'''[http://infoweb.newsbank.com/signin/WestFloridaRegional/PNJB PNJ Archive Search]''' - full text via library*[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives PNJ Archive Search]- article previews only
*[http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html Day of the week calculator]
*[http://www.inweekly.net/article_search.asp Independent News]
*[http://www.ecorsair.com/home/archives/ PJC Corsair]
===Specific sources===
*''[http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=boolean;c=fhp;cc=fhp;xg=1;q=history%20escambia;rgn=works;a=39;sid=2e9a7928fe28aec0d957197b08a888f4;q1=history;sort=occur;start=26;size=25;rgn1=full%20text;q2=escambia;op2=and;rgn2=full%20text;view=toc;subview=jpgtoc;idno=WF00000021;node=WF00000021%3A1 History of Escambia County, Florida: Narrative and Biographical]'' (1930) by Henry Clay Armstrong.
===Other websites===
*[http://query.nytimes.com/search/archive.html New York Times archives] - The ''New York Times'' has made available a searchable archive of their newspapers since 1850. Most articles are available for free, either in text format or as PDF scans.
*[http://rootsweb.com/~flescamb/ Escambia County, Florida GenWeb Project] - Resource with hundreds of transcribed records, directories and other documents dating back to the 1700s and focusing on the late 1800s and early 1900s.
*[http://memory.loc.gov/ American Memory] - A project by the Library of Congress with lots of historic photos in the public domain.
*[http://www.floridamemory.com/ Florida Memory Project] - State of Florida project with a [http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/ photographic collection] and other documents.
*[http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/FL/Escambia/sur/ Linkpendium] - A good list of biographies of historical figures.
==Library research==