Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Alachua County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Daily Florida Democrat (Gainesville, Fla.)1895-189?
- Der Buzzard (Gainesville, Fla.)1936-1936
- Gainesville Daily Sun and the Alachua County News (Gainesville, Fla.)1938-1954
- Military Musings (Gainesville, Fla.)1886-18??
- The Alachua Citizen (Gainesville, Alachua County, Fla.)1875-1???
- The Cotton States (Micanopy, Fla.)1860-1865
- The Daily Advocate (Gainesville, Fla.)1884-18??
- The Daily Bee (Gainesville, Fla.)1883-188?
- The Daily Democrat (Gainesville, Fla.)1888-18??
- The Daily Democrat (Gainesville, Fla.)1896-1???
- The Daily Evening Ledger (Gainesville, Fla.)1895-189?
- The Daily Gazette (Gainesville, Fla.)1891-1???
- The Daily Leader (Gainesville, Fla.)1892-1???
- The Daily Sun (Gainesville, Fla.)1890-190?
- The Evening Ledger (Gainesville, Fla.)1895-1895
- The Florida Alligator (Gainesville, Fla.)1912-1973
- The Florida Bulletin (Gainesville, Fla.)1904-19??
- The Florida Christian Advocate (Sanford, Fla.)1886-1941
- The Florida Independent (Gainesville, Fla.)1869-1???
- The Florida Sentinel (Gainesville, Fla.; Pensacola Fla.; Jacksonville, Fla.)1887-1931
- The Gainesville Advertiser (Gainesville, Fla.)1940-????
- The Gainesville Star (Gainesville, Fla.)1903-19??
- The Gainesville Sun (Gainesville, Fla.)1879-1880
- The Gainesville Times (Gainesville, Alachua Co., Fla.)1876-1879
- The Gainesville Weekly Sun (Gainesville, Fla.)1889-189?
- The Gainesville Weekly Sun and Bee (Gainesville, Fla.)1880-188?
- The High Springs News (High Springs, Fla.)1897-19??
- The Ledger (Gainesville, Fla.)1895-1895
- The New Era (Gainesville, Fla.)1865-1874
- The Times Messenger (St. Augustine, Fla.)1933-193?
- The University News (Gainesville, Fla.)1906-190?
- The Weekly Ledger (Gainesville, Fla.)1895-189?
- Wallack's Melrose Daylight (Melrose, Fla.)1886-1???
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- Alachua County official website
Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the clerk of the circuit court, and any online record search the county offers.
- The clerk of the circuit court
In Florida the clerk keeps most county records: deeds and other official records, marriage licenses, probate and court cases.
- The State Archives of Florida
In Tallahassee: territorial and state records, Confederate pension files, and the state censuses.
- State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory)free
The State Archives' online collections: Confederate pension applications, Spanish land grants, photographs and more, with the archives in Tallahassee.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "Florida, Alachua" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Duval County
Check the parent county for earlier records: Duval County
Later formed partly from Alachua County: Clay County, Columbia County, Gilchrist County, Hernando County, Hillsborough County, Levy County, Marion County, Putnam County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1824, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
Florida's statewide birth and death records begin in the late 1800s and are fullest from 1917. Florida took state censuses in 1885, 1935 and 1945, among others, which fill gaps between federal ones.