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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas and adjoining states.<ref name="DB107">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 107. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> USA and state materials, Texas and Houston area death records including funeral home records, censuses, passenger arrival lists, manuscripts, International resources for Europe, Canada, and Mexico, military records, family histories, genealogical periodicals, maps, family history vertical files, and Family History Library Affiliate Program.<ref name="Coll">[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/collections.html Collections] at ''Clayton Library Center for Genealogy Research'' (accessed 26 October 2013).</ref> Their special collections includes 25 major genealogical collections, such as the Barbour, Blake, Draper Manuscript, and Vosburgh collections, Loredo TX Archives 1749-1872, and Nacagdoches TX Archives 1733-1836.<ref name="SpColl">[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/collections_special-collections.html Special Collections] at ''Clayton Library Center for Genealogy Research'' (accessed 26 October 2013).</ref> | One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas and adjoining states.<ref name="DB107">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 107. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> USA and state materials, Texas and Houston area death records including funeral home records, censuses, passenger arrival lists, manuscripts, International resources for Europe, Canada, and Mexico, military records, family histories, genealogical periodicals, maps, family history vertical files, and Family History Library Affiliate Program.<ref name="Coll">[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/collections.html Collections] at ''Clayton Library Center for Genealogy Research'' (accessed 26 October 2013).</ref> Their special collections includes 25 major genealogical collections, such as the Barbour, Blake, Draper Manuscript, and Vosburgh collections, Loredo TX Archives 1749-1872, and Nacagdoches TX Archives 1733-1836.<ref name="SpColl">[http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/collections_special-collections.html Special Collections] at ''Clayton Library Center for Genealogy Research'' (accessed 26 October 2013).</ref> | ||
=== Tips === | === Tips === | ||
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*Free Wi-Fi is available and you are welcome to bring in your laptop and connect to the Internet. | *Free Wi-Fi is available and you are welcome to bring in your laptop and connect to the Internet. | ||
*Public computers are available with a Houston Public Library PowerCard, or computer use card.<ref name="About" /> | *Public computers are available with a Houston Public Library PowerCard, or computer use card.<ref name="About" /> | ||
=== Alternate Repositories === | === Alternate Repositories === | ||
If you cannot visit or find a source at the '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', a similar source may be available at one of the following. | If you cannot visit or find a source at the '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', a similar source may be available at one of the following. | ||
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'''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br> | '''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br> | ||
* | *[[National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth)]] letters, photos, maps, settlement history, American Indians, the Civil War, slavery, Chinese exclusion, repatriation, segregation, and World Wars I and II. | ||
* | *[[Dallas Public Central Library]] | ||
'''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | '''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | ||
* | *[[Family History Library]], Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records. | ||
* | *[[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]], Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic collections, and Canadians. | ||
*[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]], Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. | |||
*[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives I]], Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service and pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons. | |||
'''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | '''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | ||
* | *[http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/genfirst.html Texas State Library and Archives Commission], Austin, federal censuses, vital statistics indexes, military indexes, county tax rolls, city directories, newspapers, voter registration, convicts. | ||
*[http://www.thc.state.tx.us/ Texas Historical Commission], Austin, 5,000 publications of which 3,000 are books, historical sites, cemeteries, oral history, heritage trails, city and county histories, military history and photos. | |||
*[http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/reqproc/certified_copy.shtm Texas DSHS Vital Statistics], Austin, births, deaths, marriages, divorces. | |||
*[http://www.hillcollege.edu/info/texasheritagemuseum/ Texas Heritage Museum, Hill College], Hillsboro, outstanding Civil War collection. | |||
*[http://smu.edu/libraries/ Southern Methodist University] history, biography, newspapers, ethnic studies, government papers. | |||
*Chaparral Genealogical Society Library | |||
*African American Library at the Gregory School | |||
*Harris County Archives | |||
*Harris County District Clerk | |||
*Houston Public Library | |||
*Rice University - Fondren Library, Woodson Research Center | |||
*San Jacinto Museum of History Library | |||
*[http://www.bgct.org/texasbaptists/Page.aspx?pid=1134 Texas Baptist Historical Society] histories of local congregations. | |||
=== Sources === | === Sources === | ||
Revision as of 14:53, 26 October 2013
 Contact Information[edit | edit source]E-mail: Email Reference Please use this form for genealogy and research questions. Address:[1]
Telephone:[1] 832-393-2600 Hours:[1] Sunday and Monday Closed ; Tuesday 10am–6pm ; Wednesday10am–8pm ; Thursday 10am–6pm ; Friday 10am–5pm ; Saturday 10am–5pm Directions, map, and public transportation: Internet sites and databases:
Collection Description[edit | edit source]One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas and adjoining states.[2] USA and state materials, Texas and Houston area death records including funeral home records, censuses, passenger arrival lists, manuscripts, International resources for Europe, Canada, and Mexico, military records, family histories, genealogical periodicals, maps, family history vertical files, and Family History Library Affiliate Program.[3] Their special collections includes 25 major genealogical collections, such as the Barbour, Blake, Draper Manuscript, and Vosburgh collections, Loredo TX Archives 1749-1872, and Nacagdoches TX Archives 1733-1836.[4] Tips[edit | edit source]
Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]If you cannot visit or find a source at the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, a similar source may be available at one of the following. Overlapping Collections
Similar Collections
Neighboring Collections
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The Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research is part of the Houston (TX) Public Library System