All Official Records Are Available Online
It took a little while, 18 years in fact, but all Wakulla County Official Records are now online!
How did we get here and why did it take so long? Well, it took this long because digitizing 160 years of records is time consuming and costly! We did it in three steps:
1. In 2007, the Clerk's Office began electronically scanning and indexing all official records and stopped creating paper books. But that left all official records from 1842 to 2006 unavailable unless you came to the Courthouse. The first step was the least expensive step but the most time consuming - clerk staff began scanning and indexing records from 2006 backwards. No additional staff was hired and employees scanned "in their spare time". It took 11 years (2018) to scan back to 1988.
2. In 2018 the Clerk's Office applied for a grant through the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources and was awarded a grant in the amount of $26,316 to hire Pioneer Records Management Services to scan, image and index the records from 1842 to 1962. This made these historically significant documents available to our citizens online. This left a gap of records from 1963 to 1987 that were unavailable online.
3. The County received a significant amount of funding through the Covid-19 Cares Act and in 2021 the Clerk's Office asked the Board of County Commissioners to fund the final step so that our citizens could safely find all records online without having to come to the Courthouse. The Clerk's Office hired Catalis Courts & Land Records, LLC to scan, image and index all official records from 1963 to 1987 for $54,000.
It's just not the same scrolling through electronic records as it is flipping pages in very large and heavy books but it is a lot easier and much more convenient! Click here to start your search. Happy Searching!
1. In 2007, the Clerk's Office began electronically scanning and indexing all official records and stopped creating paper books. But that left all official records from 1842 to 2006 unavailable unless you came to the Courthouse. The first step was the least expensive step but the most time consuming - clerk staff began scanning and indexing records from 2006 backwards. No additional staff was hired and employees scanned "in their spare time". It took 11 years (2018) to scan back to 1988.
2. In 2018 the Clerk's Office applied for a grant through the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources and was awarded a grant in the amount of $26,316 to hire Pioneer Records Management Services to scan, image and index the records from 1842 to 1962. This made these historically significant documents available to our citizens online. This left a gap of records from 1963 to 1987 that were unavailable online.
3. The County received a significant amount of funding through the Covid-19 Cares Act and in 2021 the Clerk's Office asked the Board of County Commissioners to fund the final step so that our citizens could safely find all records online without having to come to the Courthouse. The Clerk's Office hired Catalis Courts & Land Records, LLC to scan, image and index all official records from 1963 to 1987 for $54,000.
It's just not the same scrolling through electronic records as it is flipping pages in very large and heavy books but it is a lot easier and much more convenient! Click here to start your search. Happy Searching!