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• Amazon.com - Path Between The Seas : The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

  A book by David McCullough.

• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Panama ^FREE

• Ancestry.com - Search Historical Records $

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

  • 1910 United States Federal Census $

  • 1920 United States Federal Census $

  • 1930 United States Federal Census $

  • 1940 United States Federal Census ^FREE

  • Panama Canal Zone, Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Records, 1906-1991 $

    Original source: Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Death Records, 1906-1991 [Archival Database]; Records of the Panama Canal, Record Group 185; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

  • Panama, Select Baptisms, 1750-1938 $

    Original source: Panama, Baptisms, 1750-1938. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

  • Panama, Select Deaths, 1840-1930 $

    Original source: Panama Deaths, 1840-1930. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

  • Panama, Select Marriages, 1800-1950 $

    Original source: Panama, Marriages, 1800-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

• eBay Listings: Search for Canal Zone History

  Online auction service for buying & selling.

• FamilySearch - FamilySearch Center Locator: Panama

  From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.

• FamilySearch - United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991 ^FREE

  Partial index to the mortuary's registers of military personnel, canal employees and canal zone civilians processed through the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary. Acquired from the National Archives "Access to Archival Databases" (AAD).

• FamilySearch Catalog

  From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more: Introduction to the Family History Library Catalog.

  • Panama

• FamilySearch Wiki - Panama Family History Centers

• FamilySearch Wiki - United States, Panama Canal Zone, Employment Records and Sailing lists (FamilySearch Historical Records)

• Gold Rush Voyages - Panama Isthmus

  Riot on Isthmus of Panama, 1856. Ships passenger lists (Golden Gate and JL Stephens to San Francisco), lists of those killed, NARA surname index to damage claims.

• Library of Congress - Country Studies - Panama

• National Archives - Browse the 1940 Census - Panama Canal ^FREE

• Obtaining Former Panama Canal Zone Documentation - Embassy of the United States Panama

• Panama Canal - Canal de Panama - www.PanCanal.com

  • Canal History

• Panama Canal Museum - Panama Canal Society Foundation, Inc.

  • Roosevelt Medal Holders

• PANAMA-CANAL Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb) - Now Archived

  For anyone researching ancestors who worked or lived in the Panama Canal Zone.

• Panama-Jamaica Genealogy (Facebook)

• Records of the Panama Canal - (Record Group 185) 1848-1984

  From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

• Roosevelt Medal Descendants

• The Panama Canal Society of Florida

  Dedicated to the thousands of members of the Panama Canal Society who have banded together, starting in 1932, to remember the great days of working on the Panama Canal and living, and learning in the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama.