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Guide to Concho County Texas genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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County Courthouse

Concho County Courthouse
PO Box 98
Paint Rock, TX 76866-0098
Phone: 915.732.4322 

County Clerk has birth records from 1800,
marriage, probate and land records from 1879,
burial records from 1883, death records from 1903,
divorce and court records from 1907^[1]

History

Parent County

1858--Concho County was created 1 February 1858 from Bexar County. The county was not organized until 1879.  County seat: Paint Rock ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Concho | Eden | Eola | Lightner | Lowake | Millersview | Paint Rock | Pasche | Vick

Neighboring Counties

• Coleman
• McCulloch
• Menard
• Runnels
• Schleicher
• Tom Green

Resources

Cemeteries

Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

Additional Cemetery Sources

• Old Eden Cemetery - partial transcription  -  USGenWeb Archives Project
• Paint Rock Cemetery - partial transcription  -  USGenWeb Archives Project
• FindAGrave - Concho County cemeteries

Census

• 1880 Federal Tax images - USGenWeb Archives Project
• 1900 Federal Tax images  -  USGenWeb Archives Project
• 1910 Federal Tax images -  USGenWeb Archives Project
• 1920 Federal Tax Image - USGenWeb Archives Project

Church

Court

Land

After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions, including deeds and mortgages, have been recorded by the county. You can obtain copies of these land records by writing to the county clerk at the county courthouse. For more information, see Texas Land and Property.

The Family History Library Catalog lists microfilm copies of deeds, trust deeds, and mortgages of many counties.

• Original Land Owners of Texas - USGenWeb Archives Project

Local Histories

Local histories are available for Concho County, Texas. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Texas Local Histories.

• Concho County History: 1858-1958, 2 vols., 1959, by Hazie LeFevre.
  
• Concho County History from the Handbook of Texas Online.
  
• Concho County Bibliography -  TXGenWeb

Maps

Texas Counties Map. Click on the county to go to the TXGenWeb site.

Military

• Fort Concho Cemetery Removal -  USGenWeb Archives Project
• Confederate Pension Applications  -  USGenWeb Archives Project

Newspapers

Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Concho County, Texas newspapers in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• Do a Concho County, Texas Place-name search for these and other records in the Family History Library Catalog (For instructions see FHL Catalog Place-name Search).

Obituaries

Concho County Obituaries -  TXGenWeb

Probate

Taxation

Texas tax records complement land records and can be used in place of censuses or to supplement the years between censuses. Because only persons who owned taxable property were listed, many residents were not included in tax lists. There may also be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties. For more information, see the wiki page Texas Taxation.

Texas County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910 lists FHL films with county tax lists. The lists vary by county and year. Most records are between the years of 1846 - 1910.

Vital Records

See Texas Vital Records for more information about Vital records in Texas. Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. United States Vital Records has additional research guidance on researching and using vital records.

A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Texas Vital Records State Department of Health or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred.

• Marriage Records 1879-1920, Concho County, 2002, published by the San Angelo Genealogical and Historical Society, 74 pages including an index. Available from the San Angelo Genealogical and Historical Society
• Texas Death Index 1964 to 1998 [no images] Name index to Texas Statewide Death Certificates or four million people who have died since 1964.
• Texas Death Records 1890 – 1976 [with images]
  Name index and images of statewide death certificates, 1890-1976. The name index has been created by FamilySearch and is tied to images of the Texas death certificates. Few certificates are available prior to 1903
• Concho County Marriage Records -  USGenWeb Archives Project
• Concho County Divorce Records -  USGenWeb Archives Project

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• Concho County, TXGenWeb site
• TXGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the county 
• Family History Library Catalog 

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Texas, Concho County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Concho County, Texas. Page 661 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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