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{{Block indent|'''''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>}}

{{Block indent|'''''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>}}

{{Block indent|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]}}

{{Block indent|1=Original manuscripts for Texas while a part of Mexico, as a republic, and as a state, including all counties, vital records, newspapers, books, and maps.<ref name="DB107" /> Three divisions of the Texas State Library house materials of interest to genealogists: the Information Services, the Archives, and the Local Records divisions. The Information Services Division contains such records as published histories, vital record indexes, census records, and military records. The Archives Division preserves colonial, republic, and state government records, while the Local Records Division maintains valuable city and county government records. Microfilm copies of the city and county records are distributed among 26 Texas repositories.|2=1}}

{{Block indent|A helpful guide to important sources at the Texas State Archives is:}}

{{Block indent|1=*Jean Carefoot, ''Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Texas State Archives'' (Austin, Texas: Archives Division, Texas State Library, 1984. {{FSC|185217|item|disp=FS Catalog book 976.4 A3cj 1984.}} A 197? edition is on film {{FSC|185217|item|disp=FS Library film 1036849 item 11.}}|2=1}}

{{Block indent|The Texas State Library will loan selected materials from their Genealogy Collection. For a list of materials available for circulation, see:}}

{{Block indent|1=*Texas State Library, ''Texas State Library Circulating Genealogy Duplicates List'' (Austin, Texas: Texas State Library, 1992). {{FSC|1307259|item|disp=FS Catalog book 976.4 A3t}} A 1985 edition is available on {{FSC|611909|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6047934}}<br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=This collection is as large as the state archives including newspapers, biographies, private collections, the American South, military history, Western Americana, and photos, and the ''[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ Website] ''Natchez Trace Collection'' papers from Mississippi and Louisiana.<ref name="DB107" /><br><br>''|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas, adjoining states, and Tennessee.<ref name="DB107">Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.</ref><br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.<ref name="DB107" /><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=Especially good collection for the Mexican colonial era in Texas, good resources for the Texas Republic, and genealogical reference works.<ref name="DB107" /><br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=Good genealogy and Texana collection.<ref name="DB107" /><br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=Good genealogy collection including the pre-Civil War period, the East Texas lumber industry, and oral histories.<ref name="DB107" /><br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=Their strength is records of ethnic Germans in Texas, and a database of immigrants to the Gulf Coast.<ref name="DB107" /><br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=Very good genealogy collection of newspapers, obituaries, biographies, histories and genealogies covering the entire Southwest.<ref name="DB107" /> Focus is on Texas, the South, the Midwest, and the original thirteen states.<br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|1=Come here for records of some of the earliest Texas settlers.<ref name="DB107" /> Also houses county records of Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler counties.<br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|A key repository for locating selected early '''''Missouri ''''' and '''''Texas ''''' settlers. This was a center for Missouri Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. It has a great collection of family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, and surname lists for northeast Texas.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 67.</ref> <ref>[http://harrisoncountymuseum.org/our_collection Our Collection] in ''Harrison County Museum'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref><br><br>}}

{{Block indent|Good Texas newspapers collection, including many online.<br>}}

{{Block indent|1="French" records from the early 1700's, with an index by the Parish Clerk. The collection has many references to Americans bound for Texas.<ref name="DB107" /><br><br>|2=1}}

{{Block indent|'''TEXAS, [COUNTY] - ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES'''.}}