Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Palm Beach County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Boynton Beach News (Boynton Beach, Fla.)1946-????
- Boynton Herald (Boynton, Fla.)1927-1927
- Boynton News (Boynton, Fla.)1925-1926
- Our Voice (West Palm Beach, Fla.)1932-1975
- South Florida Developer (West Palm Beach, Fla.)1921-1933
- The Belle Glade Herald (Belle Glade, Palm Beach County, Fla.)1940-1979
- The Belle Glade Record (Belle Glade, Fla.)1929-19??
- The Boynton Progress (Boynton, Fla.)1925-1926
- The Daily Palm Beach Breeze (West Palm Beach [Fla.])1898-1???
- The Daily Palm Beach News (Palm Beach, Fla.)1894-19??
- The Daily Tropical Sun (West Palm Beach, Fla.)1914-191?
- The Everglades News (Canal Point, Palm Beach County, Fla.)1924-1967
- The Lake Worth Herald (West Palm Beach, Fla.; Lake Worth, Fla.)1912-Current
- The Lake Worth Leader (Lake Worth, Fla.)1922-195?
- The Lucerne Herald (West Palm Beach, Fla.)1912-1912
- The New Florida Liberator (West Palm Beach, Fla.)1940-19??
- The Palm Beach Daily (Palm Beach, Fla.)1895-Current
- The Palm Beach Times (West Palm Beach, Fla.)1922-19??
- The Stuart Messenger (Stuart, Palm Beach County, Fla.)1915-1925
- The Stuart Times (Stuart, Fla.)1913-1917
- The Tropical Sun (Juno, Dade County, Fla)1887-19??
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 Palm Beach 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, Palm Beach" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Dade County (now Miami-Dade)
Later formed partly from Palm Beach County: Broward County, Martin County, Okeechobee County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1909, 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.