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*[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/search Texas State Historical Association] online search  
*[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/search Texas State Historical Association] online search  
*[https://www.tsl.texas.gov/landing/collections.html Texas State Library and Archives Commission] online search
*[https://www.tsl.texas.gov/landing/collections.html Texas State Library and Archives Commission] online search
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=== Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in Texas  ===
=== Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in Texas  ===
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:'''''for Microfilm research and public access computers:'''''<br>2600 West 7th Street<br>Suite 162<br>Fort Worth, TX, 76107<br>Telephone: 817-831-5620<br>Fax: 817-334-5621<br><br>
:'''''for Microfilm research and public access computers:'''''<br>2600 West 7th Street<br>Suite 162<br>Fort Worth, TX, 76107<br>Telephone: 817-831-5620<br>Fax: 817-334-5621<br><br>


:'''''for Archival research using textual records by appointment:'''''<br>[[Image:NARA Fort Worth.jpg|thumb|right|280px|National Archives at Ft. Worth]]1400 John Burgess Drive<br>Fort Worth, Texas 76140<br>Telephone: 817-551-2051<br>Fax: 817-551-2034<br><br>
:'''''for Archival research using textual records by appointment:'''''<br>[[Image:NARA Fort Worth.jpg|thumb|right|280px|National Archives at Ft. Worth]]1400 John Burgess Drive<br>Fort Worth, Texas 76140<br>Telephone: 817-551-2051<br>Fax: 817-551-2034<br>
 
Same website for both Microfilm research and Archival research:<br>[http://www.archives.gov/southwest/ Website]<br><br>
Internet for both: http://www.archives.gov/southwest  
:Serves Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.[3] Includes federal censuses of all states, 1790-1930 (and indexes for 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920); military service records, pension and bounty land warrant applications; passenger arrivals; Dawes Commision for the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Manuscripts, photos, maps received from federal district and bankruptcy courts and 85 federal agencies in four states. Subjects emphasized are regional and national history, westward expansion and Southwest settlement, American Indians (especially Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles), Revolutionary War, American Civil War and Recontruction, slavery, Chinese exclusion, segregation, World War I, World War II, economic development, oil, U.S. space program, public administration, political science, law, ethnology, and U.S. diplomacy.[4]
 
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:Subject specialties include censuses, westward expansion into the Southwest and settlement of [[American Indian Genealogy|Native Americans]] (especially [[Cherokee Indians|Cherokees]], [[Choctaw Indians|Choctaws]], [[Chickasaw Indians|Chickasaws]], [[Creek Indians|Creeks]], and [[Seminole Indians|Seminoles]]), slavery, bankruptcy court, ethnology, genealogy, military service records, pension and bounty land warrant applications, passenger lists and [[Dawes Commission Enrollment Records for Five U.S. Indian Tribes|Dawes census cards and enrollment jackets for the Five Civilized Tribes]] of Oklahoma.<ref name="DB13031">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 130-31. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref>
 
:For further information, ''see&nbsp;'' [[National Archives at Fort Worth]].


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