ROOTS-L Texas: Research

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    ROOTS-L Texas

    Starting Out
    Daily Life
    Data
    Geography
    History
    Military
    People
    Research

    Archives

    • Texas State Library and Archives Commission
    • Texas Historical Commission
    • Texas General Land Office, Archives and Records
    • Catholic Archives of Texas

    Libraries

    • Texas Family History Centers
    • Genealogy Collection, Texas State Library
    • Texas Collection, Cushing Library Texas A & M
    • The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo
    • Special Collections at the University of Texas, Arlington (wonderful!)
    • Atascosa County Genealogical Society Library
    • Austin History Center - Austin Public Library
    • Latin American Collections at University of Texas, Austin
    • East Texas Research Center at Stephen F. Austin State University
    • Texas Baptist Historical Collection
    • Bastrop Public Library brief
    • The Texas Collection Baylor University
    • Mary and Jeff Bell Library Special Collections Texas A & M University - Corpus Christi
    • Eanes History Center Archival Library
    • Galveston and Texas History Center, Rosenberg Library - Galveston
    • Special Collections at the University of Houston
    • Clayton Library: Center for Genealogical Research - Houston Public Library
    • Texas and Local History at Houston Public Library
    • Special Collections, Sueltenfuss Library Our Lady of the Lake University
    • Longview Public Library Mary Lee Robbins Genealogy and Local History Room
    • University of North Texas, Rare Book and Texana Collection
    • Palestine Public Library Genealogical Resources
    • Genealogy at the Gladys Harrington Library Plano Public Library System
    • Round Rock Public Library System Genealogy Resources
    • San Antonio Public Library - Texana Department
    • The San Jacinto College South Library Texana Collection
    • DeGolyer Library Southern Methodist University
    • John Wesley Hardin: the special collection of materials at Southwest Texas State University
    • Special Collections, A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center Southwestern University
    • The Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University
    • Prothro Genealogy Research Center Wichita Falls Public Library
    • The Woman's Collection, at Texas Woman's University with an emphasis on Texas and southwestern women.

    Museums

    • Brazoria County Historical Museum with photographs and the "Old 300 database"
    • Galveston County Historical Museum
    • Hidalgo County Historical Museum
    • Historic House Museums in Texas
    • Milam County Historical Museum
    • Texas Military Forces Museum
    • Panhandle-Plains Museum
    • The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
    • Sam Houston Memorial Museum

    Projects

    • The Texas GenWeb Project
    • USGenWeb Archives: Texas
    • The USGenWeb Census Project
    • The American Local History Network - Texas
    • The American History and Genealogy Project - Texas
    • Texas Books We Own
    • Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
    • Genealogy Helplist
    • Tombstone Transcription Project

    Publications

    • genealog.lc-tx: Books in the on-line Library of Congress catalog with the subject "Texas--genealogy."
    • Ancestor Publishers
    • Borderlands Book Store - promotes awareness about the history of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, Mexico and Mexican Republic, the United States Borderlands and the genealogies of the Hispanic settlers and colonizers of these areas.
    • Bosque Crossing Books
    • Circle Book Service
    • Collin County Book Co.
    • The Donning Company Publishers
    • Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
    • Genealogy-Books.com
    • The Gregath Publishing Company
    • Higginson Book Company
    • Schroeder's Book Haven
    • SK Publications Texas Census Books and CDs
    • Wexford Publishing - Oral and cultural histories of the Texas Coastal Bend, including Victoria, Goliad, and Refugio counties, and the San'tone River bottom.

    Societies

    • Texas State Genealogical Society
    • Texas State Historical Association with lots of links to Texas History
    • Texas Historical Foundation
    • The Root Seekers Genealogical Society

      Ethnic and Religious

    • African-American Multimedia & Historical Society
    • Texas Baptist Historical Society
    • Texas Catholic Historical Society
    • Cherokee Cultural Society of Houston
    • Czech Heritage Society of Texas
    • The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church
    • German-Texan Heritage Society
    • Hispanic Genealogical Society
    • Los Bexarenos Genealogical Society - Hispanic history and ancestral research
    • Victoria Hispanic Genealogical and Historical Society of Texas
    • Huguenot Society of Texas
    • The Texas Jewish Historical Society
    • The Dallas Jewish Historical Society
    • Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society
    • Polish Genealogical Society of Texas
    • Spanish American Genealogical Association Focus is on the earliest Spanish and Mexican settlers of the present South Texas triangle below the Nueces River.
    • Texas Wendish Heritage Society

      Lineage

    • The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia - Texas Branch
    • Texas Society - Children of the American Revolution
      • San Jacinto Chapter
      • Three Forks of the Trinity Society
    • Texas Society Daughters of the American Revolution
      • Arredondo Chapter - Amarillo
      • Daniel McMahon Chapter - Athens
      • Andrew Carruthers Chapter - Austin
      • Mary Garland Chapter - Brownwood
      • Three Missions Chapter - Cameron, Milam County
      • Peters Colony Chapter - Carrollton
      • Margaret Montgomery Chapter - Conroe
      • Corpus Christi Chapter
      • Jane Douglas Chapter - Dallas
      • Nancy Horton Davis Chapter - Dallas
      • Old Chisholm Trail Chapter - Duncanville
      • Mary Isham Keith Chapter - Fort Worth
      • Captain Gilbreath Falls Absolom Hooper Chapter - Friendswood
      • Colonel George Mason Chapter - Garland
      • Daniel Coleman Chapter - Georgetown
      • Samuel Sorrell Chapter - Houston
      • James Tull Chapter - Humble
      • Captain Nathaniel Mills Chapter - Hurst
      • Major James Kerr Chapter - Kerrville
      • Lady Houston Chapter - Kingwood
      • Fort Velasco Chapter - Lake Jackson
      • Robert Rankin Chapter - Livingston
      • Sarah Maples Chapter - Mabank
      • Richard Bard Chapter - Mesquite
      • Ralph Ripley Chapter - Mineral Wells
      • Captain James Jack Chapter - New Braunfels
      • William Findley Chapter - Palestine
      • Las Pampas Chapter - Pampa
      • Joseph Ligon Chapter - Paris
      • Mary Shirley McGuire Chapter - Plano
      • Atascosa Chapter - Pleasanton
      • Rock Wall Chapter - Rockwall
      • Ol' Shavano Chapter - San Antonio
      • San Antonio de Bexar Chapter - San Antonio
      • Mary Tyler Chapter - Tyler
      • Guadalupe Victoria Chapter - Victoria
      • Major Francis Grice Chapter - Wichita Falls
      • Spring Creek Chapter - The Woodlands
    • Texas Society - Sons of the American Revolution
      • Athens Chapter
      • Cradle of Texas Chapter - Brazoria, Matagorda and Wharton Counties
      • Dallas Chapter
      • East Fork-Trinity Chapter - Garland
      • Independence Chapter - Bryan/College Station
      • Major K.M. Van Zandt Chapter - Fort Worth
      • North Central Texas Chapter
      • Panhandle Plains Chapter - Amarillo
      • Patrick Henry Chapter - Austin
      • Piney Woods Chapter - Humble/Kingwood
      • Plano Chapter
      • San Antonio Chapter
    • National Society, United States Daughters of 1812
      • Captain James Asbury Tait Chapter - Houston
    • Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
      • Central Texas Brigade
      • Plemons/Shelby Camp #464 - Amarillo
      • Maj. George W. Littlefield Camp #59 - Austin
      • Capitol Guards Camp #1263 - Austin
      • Dick Dowling Camp #1295 - Beaumont
      • Sul Ross Camp #1457 - Bryan
      • General Patrick R. Cleburne #436 - Cleburne
      • Granbury's Texas Brigade Camp - Conroe
      • General W. L. Cabell Camp 1313 - Dallas
      • 2nd Texas Frontier District Camp - DeLeon
      • Johnson - Sayers - Nettles Camp 1012 - Fairfield
      • John Bell Hood Camp - Galveston
      • Albert Sidney Johnston Camp - Houston
      • General John Gregg Camp #958 - Longview
      • Colonel Gustav Hoffmann Camp - New Braunfels
      • "Walter P. Lane" Camp - Orange
      • William H. L. Wells Camp #1588 - Plano
      • General Tom Green Camp - San Angelo
      • Hood's Texas Brigade Camp #153 - San Antonio
      • Col. Reeves 11th Texas Cavalry Camp - Sherman
      • Major Robert M. White Camp #1250 - Temple
      • Capt. James P. Douglas Camp #124 - Tyler
      • Governor Samuel W. T. Lanham Camp #586 - Weatherford
    • The United Daughters of the Confederacy - Texas Division
      • Julia Jackson Chapter 141 - Fort Worth
      • Captain Charles Schreiner Chapter - Kerrville
    • Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 Texas Department
      • Latha Jane Boyd Tent #1 - Arlington
    • Department of the Southwest - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
      • Lone Star Camp No. 1 - Dallas/Fort Worth
    • Texas Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

      Railroad

    • Central Texas Chapter - National Railway Historical Society
    • Gulf Coast Chapter - National Railway Historical Society
    • Katy Railroad Historical Society
    • North Texas Chapter - National Railway Historical Society
    • The Texas Panhandle Railroad Historical Society
    • Texas Eagle Chapter - National Railway Historical Society

      Special Interest

    • The Texas Archeological Society
    • Southeastern Archaeological Conference
    • Northeast Texas Archeological Society
    • 90th Infantry Division of the Texas Military Historical Society - dedicated to preserving the past through collection and presentation of World War II era uniforms, equipment and vehicles
    • Leica Historical Society of America
    • New Hope Cemetery Association
    • Texas Oral History Association
    • Perrin Field Historical Society

      Regional

    • The Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association
    • Big Bend Genealogical Society - Brewster, Jeff Davis and Presidio Counties
    • Central Texas Genealogical Society
    • The East Texas Historical Association
    • East Texas Genealogical Society
    • Lower Gulf Coast Genealogy Group
    • North Texas Genealogical Association with:
      • Archer County Veterans, Civil War through WWI
      • 1880 Wichita County census
      • And more...
    • Friends of Northeast Texas Archaeology
    • South Texas Genealogical Society brief
    • SouthEast Texas Genealogical and Historical Society

      Local

    • Anderson County Genealogical Society
    • Angelina County Genealogical Society
    • Atascosa County Genealogical Society
    • The Austin Genealogical Society
    • East Bell County Genealogical Society
    • West Bell Genealogical Society
    • Brazos Genealogical Association
    • Brazosport Genealogy Society
    • Burleson County Historical Society
    • Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell County
    • Camp County, Texas Genealogical Society
    • Cass County Genealogy Society
    • Chaparral Genealogical Society
    • Cherokee County Genealogical Society
    • Coastal Bend Genealogical Society Corpus Christi
    • Collin County Genealogical Society
    • North Collin County Genealogical Society
    • Comal County Genealogy Society
    • Coryell County Genealogical Society - htcomp.net
    • Coryell County Genealogical Society - aisi.net
    • Crosby County Historical Commission
    • Dallas Genealogical Society
    • The Dallas Jewish Historical Society
    • Dallas Historical Society
    • The Historical Society of Denton County
    • Genealogy Interest Group for Eastland County
    • Ellis County Genealogical Society
    • Ellis County Historical Commission
    • El Paso Genealogical Society
    • Fannin County Genealogical Society
    • Fort Clark Historical Society
    • Fort Worth Genealogical Society
    • Franklin County Genealogical Society
    • Fredericksburg Genealogy Society
    • Freestone County Genealogical Society
    • Galveston County Genealogical Society
    • Galveston Historical Foundation
    • Garland Genealogical Society
    • The Gillespie County Historical Society
    • Gregg County Genealogy Society
    • Hardin County Genealogical Society
    • Harris County Genealogical Society
    • Harrison County Genealogical Society
    • Henderson Co. TX, Athens Genealogical Organization
    • Henderson County Historical Commission
    • Hill County Genealogical Society
    • Hi-Plains Genealogical Society, Plainview (Hale County), Texas
    • Hood County Texas Genealogical Society with a lot of genealogical records
    • Hopkins County Genealogical Society
    • Houston Genealogical Forum
    • Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society
    • The Humble Area Genealogical Society
    • The Irving Genealogical Society
    • Jasper County Historical Commission
    • Genealogical Society of Kendall County
    • Kerrville Genealogical Society
    • Kingsland Genealogical Society
    • Lamar County Genealogical Society
    • Lamar County Historical Society
    • The Lancaster, Texas Genealogical Society
    • Lee County Genealogical Society
    • The Lee County Historical Commission
    • Leon County Genealogical Society
    • Mansfield Historical Society
    • Marion County Genealogical Society
    • McAllen Genealogical Society
    • Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society
    • Mid-Cities Genealogical Society
    • Midland Genealogical Society
    • The Milam County Genealogical Society
    • Montgomery County Genealogical and Historical Society
    • The Nacogdoches Genealogical Society
    • Nacogdoches Historical Society
    • Navarro County Genealogical Society
    • Navarro County Historical Society
    • Newton County Historical Commission
    • Parker County Genealogical Society
    • Pecan Valley Genealogical Society brief
    • Permian Basin Genealogical Society
    • Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc.
    • Ranger Historical Preservation Society
    • Rice Historical Society
    • River Oaks Area Historical Society
    • Rockne Historical Association
    • Rockwall County Genealogical Society
    • San Angelo Genealogical and Historical Society
    • San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society
    • MacApple Genealogy SIG San Antonio
    • San Benito Historical Society
    • San Elizario Genealogy & Historical Society
    • Sealy Area Historical Society
    • Shelby County Historical Society
    • Smith County Historical Society
    • South Plains Genealogical Society
    • Stephens County Genealogical Society
    • Texarkana USA Genealogical Society
    • Timpson Area Genealogical & Heritage Society
    • Cypress Basin Genealogical & Historical Society - Titus County
    • Tyler County Genealogical Society
    • Van Zandt County Genealogical Society
    • Victoria County Genealogical Society
    • Victoria Hispanic Genealogical and Historical Society of Texas
    • Walker County Genealogical Society
    • Wichita County Heritage Society
    • Williamson County Genealogical Society
    • Wood County, Texas Genealogical Society



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