Searching Online Records for Florida? Don’t Forget These Valuable Resources!

FamilySearch Florida Collections (current to Feb 2013)

Title	Records	Last Updated
Florida, Births and Christenings, 1880-1935	20,227	10 Mar 2012
Florida, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865	285,975	21 Apr 2012
Florida, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865	25,416	21 Apr 2012
Florida, Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Applications, 1885-1955	Browse Images	26 Sep 2011
Florida, Death Index, 1877-1998	5,187,074	10 Feb 2012
Florida, Deaths and Burials, 1900-1921	24,800	27 Apr 2010
Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939	471,800	29 Mar 2010
Florida, Divorce Index, 1927-2001	3,012,178	29 Feb 2012
Florida, Key West Passenger Lists, 1898-1920	Browse Images	*16 Jan 2013
Florida, Marriage Index, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001	11,718,373	14 Jan 2012
Florida, Marriages, 1830-1993	571,766	9 May 2012
Florida, Marriages, 1837-1974	859,969	26 Mar 2012
Florida, Probate Records, 1784-1990	Browse Images	27 Sep 2012
Florida, State Census, 1885	110,864	27 Mar 2010
Florida, State Census, 1935	1,599,085	27 Mar 2010
Florida, State Census, 1945	2,249,138	27 Mar 2010
Florida, Tampa, Passenger Lists, 1898-1945	50,103	21 Dec 2012

Florida Message Boards ~ Ancestry.com

Message boards or forums are a great place to engage with others researching in our area of interest.

AfriGeneas States Research Forum

You can post your FL-specific queries here!

AfriGeneas Slave Research Forum

This board is reserved for discussion of the Enslavement Period, slave genealogy, documents pertaining to slavery, and techniques for finding the last slaveowner and the first slave ancestor.

Free Persons of Color (FPOC) Forum

This is the hosted message board of the Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware website. This is the place to discuss issues pertaining to ancestors who were either born free or emancipated prior to the Civil War.

Florida GenWeb

The purpose of FLGenWeb is to preserve and educate the public about Florida’s rich heritage and to help families discover their ancestors.

Florida Digital Newspaper Library

The Florida Digital Newspaper Library exists to provide access to the news and history of Florida. All of the over 1,376,000 pages of historic through current Florida newspapers in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library are openly and freely available with zoomable page images and full text.

Florida History Online

From Daniel L. Schafer, Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Florida, Florida History Online is an educational website intended as a resource for teachers and scholars, students at all grade levels, and the general public. It offers free online access to transcribed Florida history documents.

Floridiana on the Web ~ USF Libraries Digital Collections

An astoundingly rich collection of digitized manuscripts, oral histories, historical photographs and full text articles on Florida history. All back editions of the journal Florida Historical Quarterly are available as searchable full text.

State Archives of Florida ~ Florida Memory Project

The Florida Memory Project website presents a selection of digitized historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, education resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. Notable online collections:

Resource Guide ~ P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History

Excellent guide to online resources for Florida history and genealogy

Florida Cemetery Index

There were 12,071 names from 83 cemeteries in the database as of 1 August 2000.

City of Tallahassee ~ City-Owned Cemeteries Burial Records

Looking for someone who you think might be buried in a City of Tallahassee-owned cemetery? Here’s where to start. Also included is a wonderful comprehensive guide to researching ancestors buried in private cemeteries, not in the five owned cemeteries and operated by the City government. Here you will find links to the largest funeral homes in Tallahassee, area churches, and other helpful resources for researching ancestors buried in Tallahassee. See also their page of links to information about cemeteries in general.

The Obituary Daily Times

The Obituary Daily Times is a daily index of published obituaries. It is distributed Freely, often twice a day by email, and usually has over 2500 entries a day. You can search the database anytime with their online search engine.

WPA Life Histories from Florida

First-person accounts of life in Florida collected during the Great Depression.

Alachua County Ancient Records

493,813 Page Images of early Florida records. 14,890 Pages have been transcribed. As Alachua County was an early seat of government in Florida, this collection has records from across Florida, not just Alachua County. You can volunteer to index records, too!