Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Hillsborough County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Awu News Review (Drew Field, Tampa, Fla.)1943-19??
- Boletin (Tampa, Fla.)1941-19??
- Boletin De El Internacional (Tampa, Fla.)1936-1937
- Boletin Del Comite De Defensa (Tampa, Fla.)1938-19??
- Boletin Obrero (Tampa, Fla.)1903-190?
- C.C.C (Tampa, Fla.)1941-19??
- Courier-Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1886-18??
- Cuba (Tampa, Fla.)1893-1???
- El Comercio (Tampa, Fla.)1914-19??
- El Diario De Tampa (Ybor City, Tampa, Fla.)1908-19??
- El Federal (Tampa, Fla.)1902-1903
- El Heraldo Dominical = Spanish Sunday Paper (Tampa, Fla.)1914-19??
- El Internacional (Tampa, Fla.)1904-193?
- El Internacional (Tampa, Fla.)1933-193?
- El Internacional (Tampa, Fla.)1937-19??
- El Latino Americano (Tampa, Fla.)1929-19??
- El Vocero De La Union Internacional De Taborqueros (Tampa, Fla.)1941-19??
- Florida Bond News (Tampa, Fla.)1932-1933
- Florida Labor Advocate (Tampa, Fla.)1930-1958
- Florida Sentinel (Tampa, Fla.)1945-195?
- L'alba Sociale (Ybor City, Tampa, Fla)1901-19??
- L'organizzatore (Ybor City, Fla.)1920-19??
- La Columna (Tampa, Fla.)1929-19??
- La Defensa (Tampa, Fla.)1916-19??
- La Federación (Ibor City, Tampa, Fla.)1899-19??
- La Gaceta (Tampa, Fla.)1922-Current
- La Nueva República (Tampa, Fla.)1897-189?
- La Prensa (Ybor City, Tampa, Fla.)1918-19??
- La Voce Della Colonia ([Ybor City, Fla.])1911-19??
- La Voce Della Colonia (Tampa, Fla.)1929-19??
- La Voce Dello Schiavo (Tampa, Fla.)1900-19??
- La Voz De LA-500 (Tampa, Fla.)1941-19??
- La Voz Del Esclavo (Tampa, Fla.)1900-19??
- Labor Temple (Tampa, Fla.)1925-19??
- Macdill Fly Leaf (Port Tampa City [Tampa], Fla.)1941-????
- Penny Saver Weekly News (Tampa, FL)1947-Current
- Plant City Daily News (Plant City, Fla.)1925-1926
- Plant City Enterprise (Plant City, Hillsborough County, Fla.)1926-1943
- Plant City Enterprise (Plant City, Hillsborough County, Fla.)1926-1946
- Port Tampa City and Interbay Peninsula Beacon (Port Tampa City, Fla.)1940-1945
- Port Tampa City Beacon (Port Tampa City [Fla.])1939-1940
- Port Tampa City Beacon (Port Tampa City, Fla.)1945-????
- Revista De Cuba Libre (Tampa [Fla.])1897-189?
- Ruskin News (Ruskin, Fla.)1909-19??
- Seald-Sweet Chronicle (Tampa, Fla.)1925-1932
- Tampa Life (Tampa, Fla.)1928-19??
- Tampa Morning Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1904-1958
- The Daily News (Tampa, Fla.)1887-1???
- The Daily Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1892-189?
- The Florida Peninsular (Tampa, Fla.)1855-1874
- The Free Press (Tampa, Fla.)1911-????
- The Gazette and Land Bulletin (Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla.)1896-19??
- The Gazette and Land Bulletin (Waycross, Ga. ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla.)1896-19??
- The Morning Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1893-1894
- The Morning Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1897-1904
- The South Florida Messenger (Tampa, Fla.)1885-1???
- The Southern Boatmen (Tampa, Fla.)1932-19??
- The Tampa Bulletin (Tampa, Fla.)1914-1959
- The Tampa Citizen (Tampa, Fla.)1915-1922
- The Tampa Courier (Tampa, Fla.)1887-18??
- The Tampa Daily Times (Tampa, Fla.)1893-1958
- The Tampa Guardian (Tampa, Fla.)1873-1886
- The Tampa Herald (Tampa, Fla.)1854-1855
- The Tampa Journal (Tampa, Hillsborough County, Fla.)1886-1892
- The Tampa Morning Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1895-1897
- The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1890-1891
- The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1894-1895
- The Tampa Weekly Times (Tampa, Fla.)1893-1910
- The Tarpon Springs Herald (Tarpon Springs, Hillsborough Co., Fla.)1900-19??
- The Tarpon Springs Leader (Tarpon Springs, Fla.)1910-1973
- The True Southerner (Tampa, Fla.)1868-1869
- The Weekly Tribune (Tampa, Fla.)1895-19??
- West Hillsborough Times (Clear Water Harbor, Fla.)1884-1???
- West Tampa Leader (West Tampa, Fla.)1940-19??
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 Hillsborough 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, Hillsborough" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Alachua County
Check the parent county for earlier records: Alachua County
Later formed partly from Hillsborough County: Brevard County, Hernando County, Manatee County, Marion County, Pinellas County, Polk County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1834, 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.