Sarasota County, Florida Genealogy

Guide to Sarasota County, Florida ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

United States   Florida    Sarasota County

Quick Dates
Sarasota County's civil records start the following years:

County Courthouse
Sarasota County Courthouse 2000 Main St; Sarasota, FL 34237 Phone: 941-362-4066

Clerk of the Circuit Court has marriage, probate, court and land records from 1921 and divorce records from 1945. County Health Department has birth and death records.

Parent County
1921--Sarasota County was created 14 May 1921 from Manatee County. County seat: Sarasota

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Florida county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Florida County Boundary Maps" (1821-1997) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
For a list of record loss in Florida counties see: Florida Counties with Burned Courthouses

Neighboring Counties

 * Charlotte
 * DeSoto
 * Manatee

African American

 * Florida African American Griots Project -  USGenWeb
 * Afrigeneas - African Ancestored Genealogy

Cemeteries

 * Cemeteries of Sarasota County Florida - A Record of Births, Deaths, and Burials - via the Genealogical Society of Sarasota; online version of book published in 1992 with transcriptions from all cemeteries in the county
 * Lemon Bay Historical Cemetery ~ transcription  ~  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Miakka Cemetery ~ transcription  ~  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Pioneer Whitaker ~  transcription  ~  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Florida Tombstone Transcription Project -  USGenWeb
 * Interment.net - Florida cemetery records by County

Census

 * 1783 Spanish Census -  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * 1821 Census/Tax List Index -  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * 1823 Census/Tax List Index -  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * 1880 Census African Born Blacks and Mulattos -  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Federal Census Information from National Archives -  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * State Census Information from Florida State Archives -  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Census of Pensioners Revolutionary Military Service -  USGenWeb Archives Project

Church
Florida Churches ~  Church Angel

Land
Florida Territorial Land Records

Maps

 * Maps of Florida (1821-1997)
 * 1870 Gray's Atlas Panhandle Portion of State - USGenWeb Archives Project
 * 1882 Rand McNally Panhandle Portion of State -  USGenWeb Archives Project

Military

 * Sarasota County Military Records ~  USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Florida State Military Files - USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Pension Transcriptions -  Florida state pension records from various wars  -  USGenWeb Pension Project
 * Florida Casualties in the Korean Conflict
 * Florida Casualties in the Vietnam War

Newspapers

 * Early Florida Newspapers at the Florida State Library

Obituaries

 * Florida Obituaries -  Obituary transcriptions from Florida counties -  USGenWeb Obituaries Project

Vital Records

 * Florida State Archives

Birth Records

 * 1880 - 1935 at FamilySearch.org — index

Death Records

 * 1877 - 1939 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1900 - 1921 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1877 - 1998 at FamilySearch.org — index

Divorce Records

 * 1927 - 2001 Florida, Divorce Index, 1927-2001 at Ancestry.com — index $

Marriage Records

 * 1837 - 1974 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1830 - 1993 at FamilySearch.org — index/images
 * 1822 - 1875 and 1927 - 2001 at FamilySearch.org — index/images

Societies and Libraries

 * List of Florida Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical & Genealogical Societies
 * Florida State Historical Societies -  Listing by County
 * Sarasota County Public Libraries
 * "Twin Lakes Park, 6700 Clark Road"
 * Sarasota, FL 34241
 * Phone: (941) 861-9852

Family History Centers

 * Sarasota Florida Family History Center

Web Sites

 * Sarasota County, FL History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Florida Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Florida Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * Sarasota County, FLGenWeb - part of the USGenWeb project
 * State of Florida
 * Sarasota County, Florida Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Sarasota County, FLGenWeb Project, Inc.
 * Sarasota County, FLGenWeb Project, Inc.