Gonzales County, Texas, Selected Links
To help you find your way
in the multitude of sites offered
These are selected
for their unique value to this county.
These are selected for their unique value to this county.
informational purposes only; They do not constitute an endorsement or
approval of any of the products, services or opinions contained in
any external web site.
Brian Nichols invites you to his website at www.genealogyclassifieds.com It is a website for societies, authors and regular
genealogist to buy and sell their genealogy books.
It has no cost to anyone and is not a commercial Site.
He derives no income from this. It is just a free
service that he hopes will help others as well as
himself find some of these hard to find
and out of print books. He also has www.mycensusmaps.com
which has links to rotating census maps for all
the census years for the NE and SE US and
Overall maps for what is available And www.mycountymaps.com
which has rotating maps for the NE and SE US
shows all the county boundary changes for each year.
Migrations.org seems to be acting as a central repository where you can enter the data for your ancestors who moved into, and out of, areas in the U.S.
Data entry and display are standardized. Migrations.org appears to be without discrimination.
Recent files uploaded to the archives: 1900 Census
Marriage Bond of Eben Havens & Drusilla Lockhart -Gonzales County, TX
Submitted & transcribed by: Carla Ratcliff (pratclif@swbell.net)
Cemetery Uploads
LinkPendium, links for all 50 states
LinkPendium is being developed by Karen Isaacson and Brian Leverich,
founders of the extremely popular "RootsWeb" genealogical community site.
At the time of its merger with "Ancestry" in June 2000, RootsWeb had about
600,000 registered users, was serving about 100,000,000 Web page
views monthly, and was delivering about 160,000,000 pieces of email
monthly to the subscribers of its 18,000 mailing lists. The company had
more than 40 employees and operated its own 7,000 square foot
network operations center in Bakersfield, CA.
Holy Cross Lutheran Church Marriages and Baptisms,
BELLEVUE Cheapside Cemetery information.
Now on the: DeWitt County Page
(Contains many local names.)
Dennis Day has added the Gonzales, Texas, USGenWeb Project page at:
USA Genealogy Websites.
The home page for his Bible Genealogy and Ancient History site is:
< http://www.biblefamilytree.com/ > which has quite a bit of interesting and helpful information.
Using the links will take you away from the Gonzales site.
You may use your "back" button to return here.
Biographical Souvenir of Texas
Just letting y'all know that I loaded the Biographical Souvenir of Texas
to my site and a volunteer made a full name index! I was astonished at
all the work she did. This book is familiar probably to most of you, I
don't think there is very much from far far south Texas or far west but
east/north and much of central Texas people are included. It was
published in 1889.and is some 944 pages of biographical info.
Susan Hawkins, Fannin County CC
GenBoard Message board for The Civil War in TEXAS
Here you can post and read queries, obituaries, biographical sketches and pension records for Texas Civil War Soldiers. There is also an extensive list of links to Texas Civil War Sites.
Renee Smelley Sun, 19 Aug 2001 03:17:17
We have a CO K 2nd Texas Cavalry site. There were several men that were from Gonzales County listed on the Unit Roster.
CO K 2nd Texas Cavalry
This is a project to gather history of CO K and the men that served in this company. All information is being submitted to the Library at Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas. Renee Smelley, Longview, Texas
New Link to the "Rootsweb.com/Ancestors.com" Posting Board:
Message Board at Rootsweb/Ancestor.com
Linda Crannell, Poor House Lady
We would like to invite you to visit our website called The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses) at The POORHOUSE STORY
Thanks to: Trey Holt, a new fantastic web site that he would say
ranks just below the Handbook of Texas in
reference links for all Texas researchers.
The site is a project of the University of North Texas Libraries.
Gammel's The Laws of Texas
The laws in these books affected the lives of all of our ancestors. You will find the laws listed that established your counties, abolished your counties, and changed the name of your counties. There are also many names, incorporations of clubs, businesses, and cities, special pension authorizations, etc. Basically if it had to be approved or established by the government you will find it here.
Texas Maps
Texas Cemeteries Directory shows over 21,000 cemeteries found on line with information about where each one was found in an easy to use format
. The directory includes information about those cemeteries that have been inventoried and where to find them.
In addition the web site hosts the list of cemeteries which have reached the protected status of "Historic Texas Cemetery" designation, whose program was developed by "The Texas Historical Commission".
There also is a special page where those who have labored to write books about cemeteries can announce the availability of those books, sell the books, buy a book, or trade them.
While you're there leave a message about a neglected cemetery in the guest book.
These posts are followed up on by the folks at "Save Texas Cemeteries" and the folks who manage the "Historic Texas Cemetery" designation program.
For this information we thank Gwen Boucher.
For a free lookup on the TEXAS DEATH INDEX, go to Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Texas Vital Statistics web page.
Texas Vital Statistics, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and e-mail your request to the TSLAC staff. Their response will tell you if a death certificate exists, how the name is spelled on the certificate, when and where he/she died. Their response will also tell you how to get a death certificate.
To get a death certificate without the free lookup, go to the Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics web page.
Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics
This Tennessee site has information that might help find roots for People of Color
The site offers links and information for all colors of people, including Native Americans.
More like this
Gonzales Chamber of Commerce for information about the businesses of the area.
The C of C has a page at their own domain.
Gonzales contains information about history, accommodations, tourism, business, and many other items of interest. You also will find photos of local interest there
The New Texas Handbook On-Line with alphabetical index and searchable database.
Really Great . . . New Texas Handbook
County records on microfilm available through your local lending library. Be sure to read the rules about "borrowing" these rolls of film, then talk with your local librarian.
Save that precious time when you go to the library. Work out your
Soundex Codes
before you go.
Ron Shannon's TexRing
A source for history and genealogy particular to Texas.
Sons of the Dewitt Colony Of Texas.
Inquiries and anecdotes concerning residents and contributors to the area are solicited by that group for posting in the DeWitt Colony Family History section. General discussion about the colony and its role in Texas history are solicited for the Feedback and Discussion section.
Texas Rural Communities
Communities, including recreational facilities, camping, bed & breakfast, etc.
The Texas Escapes Online Magazine
may be found through the Texas Escapes Front Page.
6th Texas Infantry Company Rosters
Mary Mc Coulskey Brooks Offers the links listed below.
Wedding Bells
United States Birth & Death Records
United States Obituary Records
United States Cemetery Records
And a few commercial sites that I think might help:
National Archives, Washington, Research
I can provide service to those who would like such information (copies of available original documents, records, or otherwise) at reasonable rates as I live in Washington, DC and have ready access to information in the U.S. National Archives, much of which is not available in county, state, or even regional national archives.
There are no legal concerns about copyrighted material because the information in the National Archives is in the public domain for all the American people.
Research, Michael O. Anderson [last slash is necessary]
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An Interesting Map depicting 1850 County division for Texas is offered by SK Publications. SK Pub. offers photocopies of the 1850 census for sale. Neither this county page, nor the TXGenWeb, assumes responsibility for any materials, however, if you wish to own a copy of the 1850 Census for any Texas County, this listing is offered as a source.
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