Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Marion County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Florida Baptist Witness (Ocala, Fla.)1908-1912
- Florida Home Companion (Ocala, Fla.)1857-18??
- Florida Mirror (Ocala, Marion County, East Fla.)1853-18??
- Florida News (Leroy, Fla.)1891-1891
- Florida Semi-Tropical News (Ocala, Fla.)1889-1???
- Kerr City Advertiser (Kerr City, Fla.)1884-1???
- Leroy and Dunnellon News (Dunnellon, Fla.)1891-1892
- Marion Star (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.)1851-1???
- Ocala Argus (Ocala, E.F. [Fla.])1847-18??
- Ocala Morning Banner (Ocala, Fla.)1930-1943
- Silver Springs News Pictorial (Silver Springs ; Ocala, Fla.)1936-19??
- Silver Springs Park Herald (New York [N.Y.] ; Silver Springs Park, Fla.)1885-1???
- The Central Florida Times (Ocala, Fla.)1926-192?
- The Conservator (Ocala, Marion County, East Fla.)1851-1852
- The Daily Item (Ocala, Fla.)1885-1???
- The Dunnellon Sun (Dunnellon, Fla.)1929-1959
- The Dunnellon Truth (Dunnellon, Fla.)1924-????
- The East Florida Banner (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.)1866-1882
- The Florida Baptist Witness (Lake City, Fla.)1883-1904
- The Florida Watchman (Ocala, Fla.)1924-????
- The Leroy News (Leroy, Fla.)1892-1???
- The Morning News (Ocala, Fla.)1897-1???
- The New Capitol (Ocala, Fla.)1890-1894
- The North Marion News (McIntosh, Fla.)1923-????
- The Ocala Banner (Ocala, Fla.)1943-1943
- The Ocala Banner (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.)1883-194?
- The Ocala Banner-Lacon (Ocala, Fla.)1882-1883
- The Ocala Evening Star (Ocala, Fla.)1895-1943
- The Ocala Star-Banner (Ocala, Fla.)1943-1995
- The Ocala Weekly Star (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.)1897-1902
- The Ocaleean Ensign (Ocala, Fla)1917-19??
- The Ocaleean Ensign (Ocala, Florida)1917-19??
- The Southern Witness (Deland, Fla.)1905-1908
- The Tropical Farmer (Ocala, Fla.)1852-18??
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 Marion 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, Marion" 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, Hillsborough County, Mosquito County (now Orange)
Check the parent counties for earlier records: Alachua County, Hillsborough County, Orange County
Later formed partly from Marion County: Sumter County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1844, 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.