Texas Research Facilities
GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
1001 Golfview, Richmond, Texas 77469-5141
281-342-4455
Special Collections: Texana; Genealogy; American History.
HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
500 McKinney, Houston, Texas 77002
713-247-2222
Special Collections: Archives & manuscripts Department - photography & negatives related to Houston including manuscript, Bibles, Civil War, Salvation Army, Posters, Architectural & Milsap Collections; Early printing & illuminated Manuscript; Sheet Music; Texana; Early Houston & Texas Maps, Oral History; US & State Document Depository.
Regional Historical Records, Texas State Depository
Texas and Local History Collection - Texas Room.
LA PORTE PUBLIC LIBRARY
526 San Jacinto
La Porte, TX 77571.
281-471-4022
MONTGOMERY COUNTY LIBRARY
104 Interstate Hwy. 45 North (P.O. Box 579), Conroe, Texas 77301
409-788-8363
Special Collections: Texana, Genealogy
ROSENBERG LIBRARY
2310 Sealy Avenue, Galveston, Texas 77550-2296
409-763-8854
Special Collections: Maritime History; Texas History - books, film manuscripts,
photography; Oral History; US & State Document Depository.
RICE UNIVERSITY, Fondren Library
6100 S. Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
713-285-5113
Special Collections: Austrian History; Civil War Collection; 19th & 20 Century Texas;
Maps; US & State Document Depository
TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY Library
3201 Wheeler, Houston, Texas 77004
Special Collections: Heartman Negro Collection; Barbara Jordan Archives; State
Document Depository.
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, M. D. Anderson Memorial Library
4800 Calhoun Blvd., Houston, Texas 77004
Special Collections: American History; Texas gubernatorial papers; City of Houston;
Texana & Western Americana; US and State Document Depository.
Law Library: - Texas Supreme Court Briefs, Congressional Publications.
ONLINE-INDEX TO AUDITED REPUBLIC CLAIMS
TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
1201 Brazos Street, P. O. Box 12927, Austin, Texas 78711-2927
512-463-5478
Special Collections: Microfilm - censuses, head or poll taxes, tax rolls, voter registers, 1867-1869, naturalization records, port of Galveston records, archives of Nuevo Leon, Nacogdoches Archives; birth and death indexes 1903-1976 and delayed birth indexes; books and periodicals, vertical file. Sec. of State Record Books which contain many of the colonization & ship lists for persons arriving to settle in the Castro Colony, the Mercer Colony, the Peters Colony, the Fisher-Miller Colony and the German Immigration Co. The Record Books of the Chief executive [1835-1938] contain appointments, commissions, proclamations, quarantine orders, reward offers, extradition requests, pardons, military dispositions, etc.
TEXAS GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Archives and Record Division
837 Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 N. Congress, Austin, Texas 78701
512-463-5001
Special Collections: Spanish collection, Mexican grants, Republic and State Settlers' grants, Texas military grants and lists, scrip and sales, land patents, colony lists, Republic vouchers, German colonization contracts, county maps, early GLO correspondence.
The Center for American History
Sid Richardson Hall, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712
512-495-4515
Special Collections: Texas newspapers, Natchez Trace Papers, Collections of the Republic, of the State, and during the Civil War, etc.
TEXAS BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS
1100 W. 49th St., Austin, Texas 78756
512-458-7371
Special Collections: Birth and death certificates from 1903-present, marriage records 1966-present, divorce records 1968-present.
TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
P. O. Box 12276
Austin, TX. 78711-2276
512-463-6100
AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER
810 Guadalupe St., Austin, Texas 78701
512-499-7480
Special Collections: Travis County history and surrounding Counties.
DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS LIBRARY AT THE ALAMO
P. O. Box 1401, San Antonio, Texas 78295-1401
210-225-1071
Special Collections: Books, documents, maps, photographs, periodicals, early newspapers, clippings, and family papers during the Republic years.
HILL COLLEGE HISTORY COMPLEX
P.O. Box 619, Hillsboro, Texas 76645
Special Collections: Confederate militia histories; capsule histories of all Confederate Regiments from TX, LA, AR, MO, and MS; microfilm records of all service records for Hood's Brigade, TX Newspapers published during the Civil War, post returns of U.S. forts in Texas [1848-1861], and an informational file on TX Confederate soldiers; original letters, documents, maps and photographs.
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
Carroll Library Building , P. O. Box 6396, Waco, Texas 76706
Special Collections: 80,000 volumes relating to life in Texas, periodicals, subject files, Texas State Documents, maps and charts, theses and dissertations, telephone and city directories, business gazetteers, historical manuscripts, photos, and oral
memoirs.
Texas Collection (Baylor University, P. O. Box 7142, Waco, TX 76798-7142): covers county records for Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton, Hill, Lampasas, Limestone, McLennan & Williamson counties.
TEXAS RANGER HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
P. O. Box 2570
Waco, TX 76702-2570
SAM HOUSTON REGIONAL LIBRARY & RESEARCH CENTER
F. M. 1001, P.O. Box 986, Liberty, TX 77575-0310
409-336-8821
Special Collections: Historical exhibits including Sam Houston artifacts, archival collections include the Bob Davis collection of Capt. Wm. Logan papers; original assessments & renditions prior to 1910 for the10 counties [San Jacinto, Polk, Tyler, Jasper, Newton, Hardin, Liberty, Orange, Jefferson, Chambers]; the O'Brien-Reid collection from Tyler County; 4 file cabinets of the "Hardin Papers" dating back to 1826; old newspaper files, etc.
WALLISVILLE HERITAGE PARK
P.O. Box 16, Wallisville, TX 77597
409-389-2252
Special Collections: 2,000 books on Southern, Atlantic and New England States. Vertical files on 600 area families and 500 local history topics. Some 10,000 copy negatives of local individuals, families, buildings, etc. Some 20,000 negatives from a Crystal Studio in Liberty. Negatives and prints from "The Liberty Gazette" newspaper. Several archival collections dealing with Spanish Presidio & Mission at Wallisville (1756-1771) and Fort Anahuac (estb. 1830). Other archival collections dealing with Chambers County history and families. Oral histories of about 100 elderly residents.
CATHOLIC ARCHIVES OF TEXAS
1600 N. Congress Avenue (P. O. Box 13124, Capitol Stn.), Austin, Texas 78711
[by appointment only, 512-476-6296]
Special Collections: Spanish and Mexican documents 1519-1880, German settlements, material on priests, parishes, etc.
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON
1700 San Jacinto, Houston, TX 77002
713-659-5461
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
P. O. Box 19497, Arlington, Texas 76019-0497
817-273-3393
Special Collections Division: Contains numerous Collin County records, the McKinney family papers 1766-1902; the bulk of the collection covers the years 1830-1850 & pertains to Collin McKinney. A copy of the Civil War diary of L. H. Graves, of Capt. J. W. Throckmorton's Co. K, 6th TX Cavalry.
Jenkins Garrett Library: Mexican War Collection 1846-48; Robertson Colony papers; Cartographic History Library; Meso-Am. History Collection; TX Photographic History Collection; Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Ft. Worth and other N. TX towns and cities; a TX Newspaper Name Index, primarily for the 19th century, listed alphabetically providing the newspaper title, date, and brief citation. [Microfilm; does not circulate]
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Lubbock, TX 79409
Special Collections: 1910 Pioneer Collection which contains oral histories of west Texas pioneers and their ancestors.
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY
Ralph W. Steen Library, Nacogdoches, Texas
Special Collections Department: Contains material relating to East Texas - personal papers, manuscripts, documents, maps, photographs and books.
SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Newton Gresham Library, Huntsville, Texas
Special Collections: State depository for County Records of Anderson, Freestone, Grimes, Houston, Leon, Montgomery, Trinity and Walker Counties, county histories, etc.
TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY
Box T2000, Tarleton Station, Stephenville, TX 76402-2000
Special Collections: County records of Brown and Erath counties, county histories, etc. of this area.
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, COMMERCE
University Archives
Commerce, TX 75428-2810
Special Collections: County records for Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Hopkins, Hunt, Marion, Morris, Titus, Van Zandt & Wood counties. Also, county histories of this area.
THE SOPHIENBURG ARCHIVES
200 N. Seguin St., New Braunfels, TX 78130. Open M-F, 10-4 p.m.
210-629-1900
Special Collection: Contains the German language newspaper, New Braunfels Zeitung, from 1852-1957 and the Herald, the negatives of the Seidel Photograph Collection taken from 1929-1970, family collections; books containing Comal County cemeteries and cemetery sexton's records from the late 1800's; the Solms-
Braunfels Archive and Robinson's Bremer Family History. Admission $2.50.
TEXAS BAPTIST HISTORICAL COLLECTION
P. O. Box 22000-2E
Ft. Worth, TX 76122
Special Collection: TX Baptist obituaries
BRAZORIA COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM
401 E. Cedar Street, Angleton, Texas
409-849-5711, ext. 1203
Special Collection: The Old 300 database includes a listing of settlers who had received land grants in Austin's Colony by the start of the war for independence from Mexico.
JACKSON COUNTY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Edna, Texas
Special Collection: Histories, newspapers, with museum next door.
WHARTON COUNTY LIBRARY
1017 Alabama Road, Wharton, TX 77488
Special Collection: Local and family histories, Wharton County Cemetery book
WHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE
911 E. Boling Highway, Wharton, TX 77488-3252
409-532-6422
Special Collections: County histories, biographies of Texians, J. M. Hodges Learning Center has some census records
VICTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY
Victoria, Texas
Special Collection: Censuses, index to TX death and birth records, newspapers, ship passenger lists, tax records for Victoria, city directories for Victoria.
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Special Collection: Local "camps" filled out a descriptive list which included is age, place of birth, & military service which had to have corroboration if no official proof. Many of these original papers have been deposited in libraries: i.e., The Ft. Worth Public Library has those of the Ft. Worth Camp, Robert E. Lee. In 1894 camp cities were: Abilene, Alvarado, Alvin, Alvord, Archer City, Athens, Atlanta,
Aurora, Austin, Beaumont, Belton, Big Springs, Bonham, Brazoria, Breckinridge,
Brenham, Brownwood, Bryan, Buffalo Gap, Caldwell, Calvert, Cameron, Campbell,
Carthage, Chico, Childress, Cisco, Cleburne, Colorado, Columbus, Coleman, Denton, etc. The Confederate Veteran 1893-1930. The original rolls are
located in Jackson Barracks Library, New Orleans, Louisiana.
TEXAS MASONIC RECORDS
Grand Secretary of Texas,
P. O. Box 446,
Waco, Texas 76703
TEXAS SEAPORT MUSEUM
Pier 21, Harborside Drive
2016 Strand
Galveston, TX 77550