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United States    Texas

Welcome to Texas' page, the Lone Star State

Most unique genealogical features: Land records were never federal The earliest roads and pioneers were connected to Mexico, not the eastern United States

Texas Counties

Click on a letter for a list of Wiki page links to 254 Texas counties: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z

Click on the map below to go to a county page. Hover over a county to see its name. To see a larger version of the map, click here.

Extinct or Renamed Counties:

Buchanan-changed to Stephens Buchel-never organized Davis-changed to Cass Encinal-n. org.-merged in Webb Foley-never organized Harrisburg-changed to Harris La Baca-never organized

Miller-changed to Red River Navasota-changed to Brazos Neches-never organized Paschal-never organized Spring Creek-never organized Waco-never organized Wegefarth-never organized

Major Repositories

Dallas Public Central Library · Texas State Library and Archives Commission · Texas Historical Commission · Clayton Library · Texas Heritage Museum · National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth) · Allen County Public Library

Maps

Texas County Maps and Atlases

Migration Routes

Colorado River (Texas) · Pecos River · Red River · Rio Grande · Sabine River · Butterfield Overland Mail · Camino Real de los Tejas · Camino Real de Tierra Adentro · Coushatta-Nacogdoches Trace · Jones Plummer Trail · Preston Trail · San Antonio-El Paso Road · Santa Fe Trail · Texas Road · Southern Pacific Railroad · Texas and Pacific Railway

Research Tools

• Texas Genealogy Research Community (facebook)

• The TXGenWeb Project provides county information about formation date, parent county, county seat, bibliography, cemeteries, census, churches, towns, history, look ups, obituaries, queries, repositories and surname registry. Also provides many helpful Texas Internet links.
• The Portal to Texas History created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
• Texas State Historical Association - Handbook of Texas Online encyclopedia of Texas "history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 25,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories."^[1]
  
  
  

  

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Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:

• Texas Birth Certificates (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas Births and Christenings (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Concho County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Birth Index (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Concho County Records (FamilySearch Historical Records
• Texas County Marrriage Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
  
• Texas County Tax Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Membership Applications (FamilySearch Historical Recortds)
• Texas Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Death Index, 1964-1998 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas Death Records 1977-1986 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Eagle Pass Arrival Manifests and Indexes (FamilySeach Historical Records)
• Texas, Gonzalez de la Garza Genealogy Collection (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Matagorda County, School Census Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Texas, Naturalization Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Did You Know?

• County courts have been established in each county and have jurisdiction over major criminal cases, civil matters, and some naturalizations. A judge oversees matters and a county clerk keeps the records. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of county court records from many counties of Texas. From Galveston County, for example, county court minutes are available from 1867 to 1908.
• Probate records of Texas have been kept by the probate clerk in each county courthouse. You can obtain copies of the records from the clerk's office. In most counties, all information pertaining to a probate case is recorded in the "probate minutes."

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