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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
This branch of the Houston Public Library has one of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas, adjoining states, and Tennessee.<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> It has nationwide and statewide 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> | This branch of the Houston Public Library has one of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas, adjoining states, and Tennessee.<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> It has nationwide and statewide 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> | ||
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*[http://www.harriscountytx.gov/archives/Default.aspx Harris County Archives] maps, manuscripts, oral histories, schools, orphan home, J.P. dockets. | *[http://www.harriscountytx.gov/archives/Default.aspx Harris County Archives] maps, manuscripts, oral histories, schools, orphan home, J.P. dockets. | ||
*[http://www.cclerk.hctx.net/ Harris County Clerk] births, marriages, deaths, and land deeds. | *[http://www.cclerk.hctx.net/ Harris County Clerk] births, marriages, deaths, and land deeds. | ||
*[http://www.hcdistrictclerk.com/Common/Default.aspx Harris County District Clerk] civil, criminal, and family court records. | *[http://www.hcdistrictclerk.com/Common/Default.aspx Harris County District Clerk] civil, criminal, and family court records. | ||
*[http://www.thegregoryschool.org/ African American Library at the Gregory School] history of African Americans in the Houston area. | |||
*[https://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC Rice University - Fondren Library, Woodson Research Center] Asian Americans, Civil War, slavery, Houston and Texas history, World War II, British Maritime & Naval history, women's history. | |||
*[http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Library/ San Jacinto Museum of History Library] rare books, manuscripts, and histories about Texas. | |||
*Repositories in '''surrounding counties: ''' [[Brazoria County, Texas|Brazoria]], [[Chambers County, Texas|Chambers]], [[Fort Bend County, Texas|Fort Bend]], [[Galveston County, Texas|Galveston]], [[Liberty County, Texas|Liberty]], [[Montgomery County, Texas|Montgomery]], [[Waller County, Texas|Waller]]. | *Repositories in '''surrounding counties: ''' [[Brazoria County, Texas|Brazoria]], [[Chambers County, Texas|Chambers]], [[Fort Bend County, Texas|Fort Bend]], [[Galveston County, Texas|Galveston]], [[Liberty County, Texas|Liberty]], [[Montgomery County, Texas|Montgomery]], [[Waller County, Texas|Waller]]. | ||
*[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.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. | ||
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*[http://www.hillcollege.edu/info/texasheritagemuseum/ Texas Heritage Museum, Hill College], Hillsboro, outstanding Civil War collection. | *[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. | *[http://smu.edu/libraries/ Southern Methodist University] history, biography, newspapers, ethnic studies, government papers. | ||
*[http://www.bgct.org/texasbaptists/Page.aspx?pid=1134 Texas Baptist Historical Society] histories of local congregations. | *[http://www.bgct.org/texasbaptists/Page.aspx?pid=1134 Texas Baptist Historical Society] histories of local congregations. | ||
*Repositories in '''''other surrounding states:''''' [[Arkansas Archives and Libraries|Arkansas]], [[Louisiana Archives and Libraries|Louisiana]], [[New Mexico Archives and Libraries|New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma Archives and Libraries|Oklahoma]], and [[Mexico Archives and Libraries#State_Archives|Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas]] | *Repositories in '''''other surrounding states:''''' [[Arkansas Archives and Libraries|Arkansas]], [[Louisiana Archives and Libraries|Louisiana]], [[New Mexico Archives and Libraries|New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma Archives and Libraries|Oklahoma]], and [[Mexico Archives and Libraries#State_Archives|Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas]] | ||