Texas Archives and Libraries
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Texas Archives and Libraries
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The following archives, libraries, and societies have collections or services helpful to genealogical researchers.
National
National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth)
- for Microfilm research and public access computers:
2600 West 7th Street
Suite 162
Fort Worth, TX, 76107
Telephone: 817-831-5620
Fax: 817-334-5621
- for Archival research using textual records by appointment:1400 John Burgess Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76140
Telephone: 817-551-2051
Fax: 817-551-2034
Internet for both: http://www.archives.gov/southwest
Subject specialties include censuses, westward expansion into the Southwest and settlement of Native Americans (especially Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles), slavery, bankruptcy court, ethnology, genealogy, military service records, pension and bounty land warrant applications, passenger lists and Dawes census cards and enrollment jackets for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.[1]
- For further information, see National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth).
State
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Building F 1201 Brazos
P.O. Box 12927
Austin, TX 78711
Phone: (512) 463-5460
Fax: (512) 463-5436
Original manuscripts for Texas under Mexico, as a republic, and as a state, including all counties, vital records, newspapers, books, and maps.[2] 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.
A helpful guide to important sources at the Texas State Archives is:
- Jean Carefoot, Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Texas State Archives (Austin, Texas: Archives Division, Texas State Library, 1984. FHL book 976.4 A3cj 1984. A 197? edition is on film FHL film 1036849 item 11.
The Texas State Library will loan selected materials from their Genealogy Collection. For a list of materials available for circulation, see Texas State Library, Texas State Library Circulating Genealogy Duplicates List. Austin, Texas: Texas State Library, 1992. FHL book 976.4 A3t A 1985 edition is available on FHL fiche 6047934
Briscoe Center for American History (University of Texas at Austin)
2300 Red River St.
Sid Richardson Hall, Unit 2
Room 2.106
Austin, Texas 78712-1426
- 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 Natchez Trace Collection papers from Mississippi and Louisiana.[2]
5300 Caroline
Houston, TX 77004
Telephone: 713-284-1999
Internet: http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/
- One of America's best genealogical collections. Especially strong for Texas, adjoining states, and Tennessee.[2]
Dallas Public Central Library
1515 Young St.
Dallas, TX 75201-9987
Telephone: 214-670-1400
Internet: http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/index.php
- Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.[2]
Regional
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
P.O. Box 1401
San Antonio, TX 78205-1401
Phone: (210) 225-1071
Fax: (210) 212-8514
- Especially good collection for the Mexican colonial era in Texas, good resources for the Texas Republic, and genealogical reference works.[2]
San Antonio Public Library
600 Solidad Plaza
San Antonio, TX 78205
Phone: (210) 207-2500
- Good genealogy and Texana collection.[2]
Ralph W. Steen Library (Stephen F. Austin State University)
1112 North St.,
Nacogdoches TX 75962
Phone: (936) 559-2970
- Good genealogy collection including the pre-Civil War period, the East Texas lumber industry, and oral histories.[2]
Galveston and Texas History Center (Rosenberg Library)
2310 Sealy Avenue
Galveston, TX 77550
Phone: (409) 763-8854
Fax: (409) 763-0275
- Their strength is records of ethnic Germans in Texas, and a database of immigrants to the Gulf Coast.[2]
Fort Worth Public Library (Central Library)
500 W. Third St.
Fort Worth, TX 76102-7305
Phone: (817) 392-7740
- Very good genealogy collection of newspapers, obituaries, biographies, histories and genealogies covering the entire Southwest.[2] Focus is on Texas, the South, the Midwest, and the original thirteen states.
Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center
650 FM 1011
Liberty, TX 77575
Phone: (936) 336-8821
- Come here for records of some of the earliest Texas settlers.[2] Also houses county records of Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler counties.
Natchitoches Genealogical and Historical Association in Louisiana
2nd Floor
Old Parish Courthouse
Natchitoches, LA 71458-1349
Phone: (318) 357-2235.
- "French" records from the early 1700's, with an index by the Parish Clerk. The collection has many references to Americans bound for Texas.[2]
Baylor University
Texas Collection
P.O. Box 97142
Waco, TX 76798-7142
Texas State Genealogical Society
c/o Scott Fitzgerald, Treasurer [scottfitzgerald at tyler.net]
PO Box 7308
Tyler, TX 75711-7308
Phone: (903) 539-5572
Fax: (903) 592-6782
Texas Online Records
Template:TXDCleftArchive Inventories
To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Texas counties, use the 24 inventories of the county archives produced by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. The Family History Library has copies of all of these inventories.
The Texas County Records Inventory Project of North Texas State University Center for Community Services has produced more recent inventories of the records of about a third of the state's counties. These can be purchased from the Texas State Archives. The Family History Library has copies of most of these inventories. They are listed in the catalog under
- TEXAS, [COUNTY] - ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES.
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