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Footprints of the Forgotten: Florida Records Project
  • Home
  • African American
    • Pioneers
    • Slavery
    • Peonage
    • Communities
    • Youth
    • Historic Cemeteries
    • Cemeteries, obits, deaths
    • Churches
    • Reconstruction & Beyond
  • Indigent-Pauper-Unclaimed
  • Institutionalized
  • Children Institutions &
  • Prisoners & Outlaws
  • Black Seminole
  • Seminole
  • The Minorcans
  • Early East Asian Pioneers
  • Trigger Warning Records
  • Death Records 101
  • Locating Records 101
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alachua, marion, lake county

Article on Evergreen Cemetery, Alachua : ‘Ensuring their lives are remembered’: Memorial ceremony honors indigent and unclaimed decedents | Wuftarticle, marion county: County's unclaimed dead remembered during ceremony | ocala star bannermarion county 1991-2010 indigent burials - names and dates only | public records requestlake county public records request results - do not keep records via follow up phone call they are destroyed every 5 years

Volusia County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
2008 - 2011 Volusia County Indigent Services Burials & Cremations | Public Records RequestInternments at Volusia County Indigent Cemetery, Deland (Charnel Cemetery) | Public Records request

Brevard County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
Brevard County Indigent Cemetery burials through 2016 | Public Records RequestMisc Funeral home records for indigent deaths. Various Funeral homes: Koons, Koons-Smith, Smith, Brevard | Brevard County Historical Commission Archives

Orange County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
Indigent Cemeteries - Garden of Rest & Garden of Remembrance internments through 2010 | Public Records RequestOrange Hill - First Pauper's Cemetery. History and known burials | Orange County Historical Museum Collection

Pasco County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
Tucker Cemetery Burial & Cremation Internments through 2010 | Public Records Request

Putnam County

PUTNAM COUNTY POOR FARM CEMETERY | Putnam-fl-cemeteries.org

Leon, bay County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
Leon County Records of Indigent Burials at Leon serenity cemetery | Public Records RequestPAUPERS CEMETERY , TALLHASSEE ( LEON SERENITY) | USGW ARCHIVESarticle/ news bay county : Dead, poor, and alone: what happens to unclaimed and indigent bodies in Bay County? | news channel 7

Charlotte County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
Hickory Bluff Cemetery Indigent Internments | Public Records RequestIndian Springs Cemetery Indigent Internments | Public Records RequestLt. Carl Bailey Cemetery Indigent Internments | Public Records Request

Seminole County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
Seminole County Cemetery through 2021 | Public Records RequestMuseum of Seminole County History

Collier, palm beach, glade County

* Dates may be date of internment not death
Lake Trafford Memorial Gardens, Immokalee Internments | Public Records Requestarticle, palm beach : A Place for Our Brothers and Our Sisters Since 2011, hundreds of deceased individuals in Palm Beach County without known relatives have been given a dignified burial | the neighborly floridaOur Lady Queen of Peace Cemetery , palm beach, burial record search glade county public record request response ( no records kept)

Sarasota , desoto county

HOPEWELL MEMORIAL PARK - History and Internments through 2007 | Rootsweb|desoto county results of public records request ( no records, they have never buried, cremation only)

okaloosa county

2024 lazarus service2023 lazarus serviceLazarus Field to be final resting place for unclaimed dead | nwf daily newsCounty amends number of remains to be buried in special service | nwf daily newslazarus field internments at Beal memorial cemetery | find a grave

pauper and indigent records that have been shared

pauper burial records of richmond county georgia | Augusta genealogical society

unidentified human remains

Namus database - florida cases florida unidentified decedents databaseDNA doe projectthe doe networkViCAP Unidentified PersonsDistrict Six Medical Examiner - Unidentified PersonsUnidentified Remains in Hillsborough CountyList of unidentified decedents in Florida | everybodywiki

Research, Reports, long form publications

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Third Annual Report of the State Welfare Board (1939-1940) : Florida. State Welfare Board | Internet ArchiveFourth Annual Report of the State Welfare Board (1940-1941) : Florida. State Welfare Board | Internet ArchiveFirst Annual Report of the State Welfare Board (1937-1938) : Florida. State Welfare Board | Internet Archive

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