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.