Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Duval County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Active Life and Duty (Jacksonville, Fla.)1880-18??
- Chronicle (Jacksonville, Fla.)1945-1968
- Commentator of the Community Council (Jacksonville, Fla.)1945-19??
- Community Council Commentator ([Jacksonville, Fla.])1943-1945
- Daily Florida Citizen (Jacksonville, Fla.)1893-1897
- Daily Military Review (Jacksonville, Fla.)1890-1???
- Dixie (Jacksonville, Fla.)1910-1917
- East Floridian (Jacksonville, Fla.)1868-1868
- Florida Farmer & Fruit Grower (Jacksonville, Fla.)1893-1899
- Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1865-1???
- Florida Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1864-18??
- Florida Weekly Times (Jacksonville [Fla.])1882-1889
- Jacksonville Advocate (Jacksonville, Fla.)1891-1???
- Jacksonville Courier (Jacksonville, East Fla.)1835-1838
- Jacksonville Herald (Jacksonville, Fla.)1865-1865
- Jacksonville Journal (Jacksonville, Fla.)1922-198?
- Jacksonville Morning News (Jacksonville, Fla.)1886-188?
- Jacksonville Tri-Weekly Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1869-18??
- La Recherche (Jacksonville, Fla.)1865-18??
- Semi-Weekly Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1895-1897
- Southern Baptist Witness (Jacksonville, Fla.)1904-1905
- Southern Rights (Jacksonville, Fla.)1862-186?
- St. John's Mirror (Jacksonville, Fla.)1860-1862
- The Arlingtonian (Arlington [Fla.])1935-19??
- The Cecil Field Beam (Jacksonville, Fla.)1945-????
- The Daily Florida Standard (Jacksonville, Fla.)1890-1???
- The Daily Florida Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1875-1883
- The Daily Sun (Jacksonville, Fla.)1877-1877
- The Daily Sun and Press (Jacksonville, Fla.)1877-1880
- The East Florida Advocate (Jacksonville, East Fla.)1839-1840
- The Evening Telegram (Jacksonville, Fla.)1891-1894
- The Evening Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1894-189?
- The Florida Agriculturist (Deland, Fla.)1878-1911
- The Florida Agriculturist (Jacksonville, Fla.)1874-1877
- The Florida Agriculturist (Jacksonville, Fla.)1878-1911
- The Florida Baptist Witness (Lake City, Fla.)1883-1904
- The Florida Beacon (Jacksonville, Fla.)1931-19??
- The Florida Christian Advocate (Sanford, Fla.)1886-1941
- The Florida Cracker (Jacksonville, Fla.)1902-19??
- The Florida Daily Times (Jacksonville [Fla.])1881-1883
- The Florida Dispatch (Live Oak, Fla.)1876-1889
- The Florida Dispatch and Farmer and Fruit Grower (Jacksonville, Fla.)1889-1893
- The Florida Evangelist (Jacksonville, Fla.)1896-1902
- The Florida Evangelist (Jacksonville, Florida)1896-1902
- The Florida Metropolis (Jacksonville, Fla.)1913-1922
- The Florida News (Jacksonville, Fla.)1852-1859
- The Florida Republican (Jacksonville [Fla.])1848-1860
- The Florida Republican (Jacksonville, Duval County, E.F. [Fla.])1848-1860
- The Florida Republican (Jacksonville, Fla.)1871-18??
- The Florida Searchlight (Jacksonville, Fla.)1940-19??
- The Florida Sentinel (Gainesville, Fla.; Pensacola Fla.; Jacksonville, Fla.)1887-1931
- The Florida Sun (Jacksonville, Fla.)1876-1877
- The Florida Tattler (Jacksonville, Fla.)1934-19??
- The Florida Tattler (Jacksonville, Fla.)1934-????
- The Florida Times (Jacksonville, Fla.)1865-1868
- The Florida Times-Union ([Jacksonville, Fla?])1903-Current
- The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville [Fla.])1883-1897
- The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla)1883-1897
- The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1903-Current
- The Florida Times-Union and Citizen (Jacksonville, Fla.)1897-1903
- The Florida Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1868-18??
- The Florida Weekly Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1889-1889
- The Jacksonville Mercury (Jacksonville, Fla.)1867-1868
- The Jacksonville Standard (Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla.)1858-18??
- The Jacksonville Weekly Press (Jacksonville, Fla.)1874-1877
- The Jewish Citizen (Jacksonville, Fla.)1938-1939
- The Mercury & Floridian (Jacksonville, Fla.)1868-18??
- The Metropolis (Jacksonville, Fla.)1887-1913
- The New South (Jacksonville, Fla.)1874-1875
- The News (Saint Augustine, E.F. [i.e. Fla.])1838-1852
- The News-Herald (Jacksonville, Fla.)1887-1888
- The Observer (Jacksonville, Fla.)1920-????
- The Peninsula (Fernandina, Fla.)1863-186?
- The Privateer (Jacksonville, Fla.)1945-19??
- The Semi-Weekly Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1903-1903
- The Semi-Weekly Florida Times-Union and Citizen (Jacksonville, Fla.)1897-1903
- The Semi-Weekly Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1903-1910
- The Southern Confederacy (Jacksonville, Fla.)1861-186?
- The Southern Democrat (Jacksonville, Fla.)1896-????
- The Southern Jewish Weekly (Jacksonville, Fla.)1924-1992
- The Southern Jewish Weekly (Jacksonville, Fla.)1939-1992
- The Southern Republican (Jacksonville, Fla.)1928-19??
- The Sun (Jacksonville, Fla.)1905-1908
- The Tri-Weekly Florida Courier (Jackconville, Fla.)1871-18??
- The Tri-Weekly Florida Sun (Jacksonville, Fla.)1876-1876
- The Tri-Weekly Florida Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1874-1875
- The Weekly Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1889-1893
- The Weekly Sun and Press (Jacksonville, Fla.)1877-18??
- The Weekly Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)1893-1895
- Trench and Camp (Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla.)1918-1919
- Tropical Paradise (Jacksonville, Fla.)1883-1889
- Tropical Plant (Jacksonville, E.F. [Fla.])1842-1845
- Weekly Florida Citizen (Jacksonville, Fla.)1894-189?
- Weekly News-Herald (Jacksonville, Fla.)1887-1888
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
- Duval 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, Duval" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: St. Johns County
Check the parent county for earlier records: St. Johns County
Later formed partly from Duval County: Alachua County, Clay County, Leon County, Nassau County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1822, 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.