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The Records Chase

Email, fax and web forms: trace requests, replies and records supplied, entity by entity, with documented response times.

Open the view ↗Elections · data view

The Voter Atlas

Every Okaloosa County precinct mapped across 26 elections since 2014, with county-wide returns reaching back to 1922.

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The Decision Ledger

Ten Okaloosa County budgets at one tax rate, 2016–2027 — where the county's money comes from and where it goes, from its own budget books and audits.

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Dear Mr Poe

153 letters to and from Edgar Allan Poe, 1829–1849 — placed on a map and read letter by letter.

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A Dream Within a Dream

Edgar Allan Poe's poem opened to every language — a Spanish lesson, a world atlas of tongues, and the beginnings of a call for translations and readings.

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Berrydale

38 men died at Road Camp 12 in 1967. Follow the people and examine the surviving records.

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The Tap Record

Fourteen years of Fort Walton Beach drinking-water tests — every year a glass, filled to its limit.

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The Budget Ledger

Where Fort Walton Beach's money comes from and goes, 2010–2026.

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RESEARCH COLLECTION

American constitutional and federal records

Founding-era declarations, constitutional drafts and amendments, early federal statutes and court decisions, and later federal records. Drafts, adopted texts, reported speeches and later orders retain their separate source identities and limitations.

15 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Complete newspaper issues

Whole newspaper issues preserved separately from extracted articles.

4 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Edgar Allan Poe

Explore Edgar Allan Poe through preserved magazine and newspaper printings, illustrated editions, correspondence, and related literary records. The collection includes early appearances of The Raven, Annabel Lee, and The Cask of Amontillado, alongside later editions and evidence of their reception. Each record identifies the available source files, publication details, and known limitations. Compare editions through their original scans and use transcriptions or OCR as reading aids where provided. A later reprint is identified by its own date and publication; it is not presented as a first printing. Related articles offer interpretation while the archival source remains available for inspection.

207 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Fort Walton — city records and local history

Fort Walton and Fort Walton Beach: municipal records, historical sources, local reporting, and community notices. Includes the 1941 Town of Fort Walton ordinances and council minutes preserved from the city repository. Dates and source limitations appear on each record. Newspaper sources may also belong to the Berrydale investigation; collection membership does not imply that every event occurred within Fort Walton.

9222 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Okaloosa County Elections

Official Okaloosa County election results, 1922 to present, preserved from the Supervisor of Elections' public results archive (county-wide returns by race and precinct, plus Statements of Votes Cast).

244 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Okaloosa County School Board

Agendas and recorded minutes of the District School Board of Okaloosa County, captured from the district BoardDocs system. Regular and workshop meetings, 2013 to present. Born-digital records with searchable text.

644 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Okaloosa County Tourist Development Council

Minutes and records of the Okaloosa County Tourist Development Council (TDC). Several of these were initially filed within the Board of County Commissioners collection during intake and have been re-attributed here.

25 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Organizational records and ephemera

Published memoranda, identification material and certificates; associations retain the source-specific scope.

15 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Southern history

A collection for regional history beyond a single town or publication.

11979 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Technology & systems

A collection for technical references, documentation and independent research.

10 published sources ↗RESEARCH COLLECTION

Tesla Investigations

Primary documents and attributed research about Tesla. Initial collection: the next-generation Roadster, its development claims, patent publications and production status. Company claims are distinguished from independently verified results.

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