Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Orange County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Apopka City Union (Apopka City, Fla.)1887-1???
- Central Florida Times (Orlando, Orange County, Fla.)1939-19??
- Eatonville Speaker (Eatonville, Orange County, Fla.)1889-1???
- Florida (Hawkinsville, Orange County, Fla.)1881-1???
- Florida Methodist (Mount Dora, Fla.)1886-1???
- Florida New-Yorker (New York City)1876-1884
- Lochmede (Winter Park, Fla.)1887-1889
- Mount Dora Voice (Mount Dora, Orange Co., Fla.)1886-1916
- Orange County Chief (Apopka, Orange County, Fla.)1933-19??
- Orange County Reporter (Orlando, Orange County, Fla.)1878-1898
- Orange Echoes (Orlando, Orange County, Fla.)1922-????
- Orlando Daily Record (Orlando, Fla.)1886-1???
- Orlando Evening Star (Orlando, Fla.)1947-1973
- Orlando Morning Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.)1918-1953
- South Florida Argus (Sanford, Orange Co., Fla.)1884-1889
- South Florida Journal (Sanford, Fla.)1874-1883
- Southern Baptist Witness (Jacksonville, Fla.)1904-1905
- Taft Weekly Messenger (Taft, Fla.)1910-????
- The Advertiser (Apopka, Fla.)1888-189?
- The Apopka Chief (Apopka, Orange County, Fla.)1923-1933
- The Apopka News (Apopka, Orange County, Fla.)1916-19??
- The Corner Cupboard (Orlando, Fla.)1949-1969
- The Daily Sanford Journal (Sanford, Orange County, Fla.)1886-1889
- The Daily Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.)1913-1913
- The Eustis Lake Region (Eustis, Orange County, Fla.)1884-19??
- The Florida Baptist (Orlando, Fla.)1905-1905
- The Florida Catholic (Miami, Fla.)1939-Current
- The Florida Crescent (Fort Read, Orange County, Fla.)1877-????
- The Florida Highland Press (Sorrento, Orange Co., Fla.)1886-1???
- The Florida Legionnaire (Arcadia, Fla.)1940-Current
- The Florida Post (Winter Park, Fla.)1922-19??
- The Florida Sun (Orlando, Orange County, Fla.)1924-19??
- The Florida Trade Unionist (Orlando, Fla.)1932-????
- The Maitland News (Maitland, Orange County, Fla.)1926-19??
- The Morning Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.)1913-1918
- The News-Journal (Orlando, Fla.)1947-19??
- The Orlando Star (Orlando, Fla.)1896-1???
- The Sanford Journal (Sanford, Fla.)1883-1893
- The Semi=tropical (Lake Eustis, Orange Co., Fla.)1887-1889
- The South Florida Citizen (Apopka City, Orange Co., Fla.)1879-18??
- The South Florida Sentinel (Orlando, Orange County, Fla.)1885-1918
- The Windermerian (Windermere, Fla.)1920-19??
- The Winter Park Herald (Winter Park, Fla.)1922-1959
- The Winter Park Post (Winter Park, Fla.)1915-1922
- West Orange Herald (Winter Garden, Fla.)1922-19??
- Winter Park Topics (Winter Park, Fla.)1934-1955
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 Orange 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, Orange" 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 Orange County: Brevard County, Lake County, Marion County, Osceola County, Seminole County, Volusia 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.