Sarasota County, Florida Genealogy

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

State of Florida Dept. of Health Vital Statistics 1217 Pearl Street P.O. Box 210 Jacksonville, FL 32231-0042 Tel: 904-359-6900 904-359-6911

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

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

 * 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

Societies and Libraries

 * 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

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Sarasota Florida Family History Center

Web Sites

 * The FLGenWeb Project
 * State of Florida
 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Sarasota County, Florida Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Sarasota County, FLGenWeb Project, Inc.
 * Sarasota County, FLGenWeb Project, Inc.