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Our Purpose
To
support and operate an educational and
literary undertaking;
To
create, foster and maintain interest among
citizens of Tarrant County, Texas, and
surrounding areas, in the subject of
genealogy;
To
collect and preserve information relating to
those pioneers who settled Tarrant County,
Texas, and surrounding areas, and to the early
history of such territory;
To
preserve church, cemetery and land records,
testamentary documents, diaries, letters and
manuscripts, and other source materials,
wherein are chronicled the achievements of
those who laid in the wilderness the
foundation of this great community;
To
copy and index all such records, and to
catalogue them, so as to make this information
most readily available to present and future
generations;
To
collect and make available through this
organization the published records of other
States, whence came the Texas pioneers;
To
exchange ideas, and to collaborate, in
devising efficient methods for Genealogical
and historical research;
To
publish and to disseminate genealogical and
historical information and material to the
public;
To
assist the Fort Worth, Texas, Public Library,
and other libraries and institutions in their
acquisition of genealogical and historical
information and material;
To
acquire by gift or purchase genealogical and
historical information and materials for the
use of its members, or for placement in
libraries and institutions; and
To
do and perform any and all other acts incident
or necessary to accomplish any and all of the
above and foregoing acts and purposes.
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