Escambia County, Florida Genealogy

United States   Florida    Escambia County

County Courthouse
Escambia County Courthouse 223 S Palafox Place Pensacola, FL 32501 Phone: 850.595.4310

Clerk County Court has marriage, probate and court records from 1821; County Health Department has birth and death records; Comptroller has land records from 1821

Parent County
1821--Escambia County was created 21 July 1821 as an original county. County seat: Pensacola

Neighboring Counties

 * Baldwin County, Alabama
 * Escambia County, Alabama
 * Santa Rosa

African American

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

Cemeteries

 * Escambia County, Florida Cemetery Transcriptions - The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * Florida Tombstone Transcription Project -  USGenWeb
 * Interment.net - Florida cemetery records by County
 * St. John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida (Sponsored by The Friends of St. John's Cemetery Foundation)
 * St. John's Cemetery, Pensacola BillionGraves
 * Veterans Administration National Cemeteries - Florida National Cemeteries

Individual cemeteries:


 * Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola BillionGraves

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
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Pensacola

Court

 * [http://www.escambiaclerk.com/clerk/coc_online_public_records.aspx Clerk of the Court, Escambia County)

Land

 * [http://www.escambiaclerk.com/clerk/coc_online_public_records.aspx Clerk of the Court, Escambia County) - Plat Books and Old Deed Books Public Records Search
 * 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
 * Exploring Florida, FCIT Maps, University of South Florida

Military

 * The 1890 Census Veterans Schedules for Fort Barrancas in Escambia County are available on roll 118 of "Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War" (NARA M123). The schedules list veterans and their widows who served as Union soldiers in the Civil War. For more information on the 1890 Veterans Schedules see Union Census Records.


 * 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

 * Escambia County, Florida Obituaries -  Obituary transcriptions from Escambia, Florida -  USGenWeb Obituaries Project

Probate

 * [http://www.escambiaclerk.com/clerk/coc_online_public_records.aspx Clerk of the Court, Escambia County) - Probate Court Public Records Search

Taxation

 * [http://www.escambiaclerk.com/clerk/coc_online_public_records.aspx Clerk of the Court, Escambia County) - Tax Deed Sales Records

Vital Records

 * Florida State Archives

Societies and Libraries

 * The West Florida Genealogical Society
 * West Florida Genealogy Library

Family History Centers

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

Web Sites

 * Escambia County, Florida Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Escambia County, FLGenWeb Project, Inc.
 * Escambia County, The FLGenWeb Project at USGenWeb
 * Escambia County, The FLGenWeb Project at USGenWeb