The links on this page are to sites which may have interest to Burnet County researchers. Many are the personal genealogy of persons who have ancestors in this Burnet County. If you have a genealogy page on the internet with ties to Burnet County and would like to have it linked here, please e-mail me.
Burnet
County -
Attractions, Places of Interest, etc. Very comprehensive from LCRA
and the Colorado River Trail.
Burnet
County Demographics - Texas Department
of Commerce Demographics.
David
G. Burnet (1788-1870) - The first
president of the Republic of Texas.
John
Porter Henry Family - the Henry family
settled near Smithwick prior to 1880. Family information by Judy
Henry
The
Wyatt and Shelton Home Page has info on
Lake victor and bluffton as well as the county ancestors,
Banks, and Rutledge.
...William M. Banks was born 4 July 1866, reported birthplace on the
census as South Carolina. Parents unknown. He married Alice V. Rutledge, 8
October 1887 in Richmond County Georgia. Alice, born 16 September
1867 in (Tennessee on census), was the daughter of William Dean
Rutledge and Susan V. Johnson...
The
Fuchs Tales - by Becky McNamara is a
page about the Fuchs Family, some of whom were from Burnet County.
Doris
Ross Johnston has put her father's
family history on a new Web Page. His name was L. C. Ross; his
parents were Wm. A. Ross and Mary Ann
Green from Georgetown, and his
BURNET great-grandparents were Robt.
Hiram Daugherty and his wife Agnes Warren, who came to Burnet 1854 from Lincoln Co., KY. There
are many, many Daugherty descendants.
Suzanna
Edwards' Home Page lists her Burnet County
ancestors of Eldridge, Levingston and
Edwards, plus many more surnames and pictures.
The
website put together by Janet
Lewis Crain concentrates on her
ancestors from Burnet County, including: LEWIS, JACKSON, VICKERS, BRANTLEY, STINNETT,
HOLLOWAY, WILKS, YOUNG. She writes
that she will gladly share files and will try to help researchers on
these lines.
Visit
The
Holland Clan Web Site where
Bruce &
Donna Gregg have been researching
the Holland's of Burnet County. My Great-Great Grandfather was
Samuel Ely (Eli) Holland.
Texas
GenWeb Page for Blanco County - Don
Watson is the host for Blanco County, and he's added a page there
about John Preston
Thomas who was an early pioneer of Burnet County. He's
posted a
descendancy
chart for Thomas' family and a
transcript
of a diary of his travel from Wayne County,
KY to Burnet County in 1855. John was an early school teacher in
Backbone Valley and Hamilton. Later he bacame a lawyer and was an
early District Judge in Burnet. John died in 1865 leaving his widow,
the former Amanda Melvina
Payne and 7 surviving children. He plans to add a
transcript of a school report written by 12 year old Leslie Jones, grandaughter of John
Preston Thomas and Amanda. This report was written about Amanda
Thomas and her experiences in early Burnet County days by young
Leslie in 1926.
Mika
Jackson's Home Page. Her grandfather,
Lee Anson Spencer, was born in Burnet
County, in 1888.
Darlene's
Genealogy Page - "...William Ratliff Hill, b. 22 Apr 1846, married Augusta Ellis Smith
in Burnet, TX..."
The
IIs of Texas: Burnet, Texas -
Attractions in Burnet; other things including Tex-Mex recipes,
& Aggie jokes! The "eyes" of Texas are upon you!.
Shari's
S.S. HyperTree - Links to roots in
Burnet County. A well organized page!
Bridgett
Smith's Home Page - One of the most
knowledgeable researchers of the Bible surname! Runs
a great email list, too!
Teresa
Shands has two websites - The first concentrates on the Burnet County
names of MCFARLIN,PROFFITT,KEELER,COX, while the second has information about KING,
REED,BARTON,MCFARLAND, and CHAMBERLAIN) Check back often, this is a work in progress. Check
the Burnet page, too--Teresa has contributed a lot of info here for
Burnet researchers!
JoAnn Hopper has
contributed a great deal to the Burnet site. Now she has let us know
about the Ricketson Family History she contributed to at Family
Tree Maker's Genealogy Site. This
site was created by fellow researcher, John Ricketson. Her ancestor,
Hiram Ricketson, can be found in another website about the
1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters.
"Cobb
and Cobbs", a website by Mike Cobb,
has extensive information on the family of
Stephen Taylor, founder of Taylor's Gin (now Briggs). There is an
index to surnames at the bottom of the page.
The Colliers
have a website featuring stories of
their Burnet County ancestors the
Clark,
Fry, Bible and Greer families.
Jerry Hyman
invites you to look at his family
database at Roots
Web World Connect about his Burnet
County Pioneers with Surnames HARRIS
- WARWICK - SMITH - COX - HYMAN
Kathie Harrison has
updated her KINCHELOE page. Sept
2002
Christy Coppedge's website features the names LaForge, Mauldin, and Jennings in Burnet
County. Go to Christy's Family, scroll down and click on the LaForge link in
the left column.
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