Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Escambia County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Advance-Gazette (Pensacola, Fla.)1883-1???
- Escambia County Tribune (Molino, Escambia County, Fla.)1919-????
- Florida Argus, and Pensacola Literary, Agricultural & Commercial Register (Pensacola [Fla.])1828-1828
- Florida Weekly Express (Pensacola, Fla.)1870-1875
- Irving Messenger (Pensacola, Fla.)1885-1???
- Pensacola Advance=gazette (Pensacola, Fla.)1882-1883
- Pensacola Commercial (Pensacola, Fla.)1883-1889
- Pensacola Commercial (Pensacola, Fla.)1888-1889
- Pensacola Courier (Pensacola, Fla.)1937-????
- Pensacola Daily Commercial (Pensacola, Fla.)1887-1888
- Pensacola Fish News (Pensacola, Fla.)1886-1???
- Pensacola Gazette ([Pensacola, Fla.])1830-1861
- Pensacola Gazette and Florida Advertiser (Pensacola [Fla.])1828-1830
- Pensacola Gazette and West Florida Advertiser (Pensacola [Fla.])1824-1828
- Pensacola Republican (Pensacola, Fla.)1872-18??
- Pensacola Semi=weekly Commercial (Pensacola, Fla.)1882-1883
- Pensacola Times (Pensacola, Fla.)1941-????
- Pensacola Weekly Commercial (Pensacola, Fla.)1882-1882
- The Colored Citizen (Pensacola, Fla.)1914-19??
- The Corryer (Pensacola, Fla.)1949-????
- The Daily Globe (Pensacola, Fla.)1898-????
- The Daily News (Pensacola, Fla.)1889-190?
- The Echo (Pensacola, Fla.)1878-1???
- The Florida Democrat (Pensacola [Fla.])1845-1846
- The Florida Democrat and Mechanic's and Workingman's Advocate (Pensacola [Fla.])1846-1856
- The Florida Sentinel (Gainesville, Fla.; Pensacola Fla.; Jacksonville, Fla.)1887-1931
- The Florida Sentinel (Pensacola, Fla.)1887-1???
- The Floridian (Pensacola [Fla.])1821-1824
- The Independent (Pensacola, Fla.)1915-????
- The Live Oak (Pensacola, Fla.)1847-1847
- The Methodist News (Pensacola, Fla.)1891-1???
- The Molino Advertiser (Molino, Escambia County, Fla.)1913-????
- The Morning Star (Pensacola, Fla.)1896-19??
- The Neutral (Pensacola [Fla.])1847-1848
- The Pensacola Advance (Pensacola, Fla.)1878-1882
- The Pensacola Gazette (Pensacola, Fla.)1878-1882
- The Pensacola Herald (Pensacola, Fla.)1928-????
- The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.)1898-1985
- The Pensacola Weekly Gazette (Pensacola, Fla.)1874-1878
- The Pensacolian (Pensacola, Fla.)1883-1???
- The Scoop (N.A.A.S. Barin Field, Pensacola, Fla.)1942-????
- The Tri-Weekly Observer (Pensacola, Fla.)1866-186?
- The Warrington Sun (Pensacola, Fla.)1948-1960
- The West Florida Commercial (Pensacola, Fla.)1867-1871
- The West Pensacola Press (Brownsville, West Pensacola, Fla.)1946-194?
- The West-Florida Times (Pensacola, Fla.)1856-18??
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
- Find Escambia County's official website
We haven't checked this county's website yet, so this opens a web search. Look for an address ending in .gov, then find the clerk of the circuit court.
- 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, Escambia" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Land not yet in any county
Later formed partly from Escambia County: Jackson County, Santa Rosa County, Walton County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1821, 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.