Kerr County Lookups

Kerr County, Texas

KERR COUNTY LOOK-UPS

Below you will find a list of books and volunteers who are willing to do Look-ups in those books. Click on the name of the volunteer to send an e-mail requesting the Look-up. (Note: Volunteers will not click on a link that requires them to register in order to answer your Look-up request. For this type of spam blocker, please add the volunteer's e-mail as an allowed address to ensure a response.)

Please Follow These Guidelines When Requesting Your Look-up

1. In the Subject of your e-mail put KERR COUNTY LOOK-UP.
2. In the body of your e-mail name the book you want searched & the surname you are interested in.
3. Give a first name, a date or other information to help the researcher identify the person you seek.
4. No more than one book and surname per request.

You may e-mail separately for each surname and book you need researched. The volunteer will handle your requests as time permits. Some requests may take longer than others.

Don't forget to thank the volunteer after your request has been answered.

Census for Kerr County, Texas:
Please ask for specific names – first and last – when you request a look-up in the census.   If you do not know the first name of the subject of your look-up request, give some identifying information, such as approximate age, name of spouse, or place of birth, to help the volunteer identify the correct person.
Click on the volunteer who does the look-ups for the census year you are requesting.
Only one name per look-up, please.
It is not possible for the census look-up volunteers to do research for you.   Please see the Home Page for information about researchers in Kerr County under "Other Kerr County Links". Click on "Kerr County Research".

From "1860, 1870, 1880 Federal Censuses of Kerr County, Texas" pub. 1997 by Kerrville Genealogical Society

1860 Census Look-ups See above rules. Put "1860 Census Look-up" in the subject. Maxine Powell

1870 Census Look-ups See above rules. Put "1870 Census Look-up" in the subject Mike Bowlin

1880 Census Look-ups See above rules. Put "1880 Census Look-up" in the subject Mike Bowlin

Need an 1880 Census Look-up in Another County in Texas ?

Billie Nichols-Bennett will do a Look-up for you in the 1880 census for other Texas Counties.
Here are the instructions for this look-up service (just one name per request, please):

1. Give Specific County
2. Furnish First and Last Name; approx. year of birth; gender.
(plus any other information to help find the person)
3. In the Subject of your e-mail put "1880 Texas Census Look-up" Billie Nichols-Bennett

"Grimes Funeral Chapels 1930-1959" compiled by Maxine Powell.

Genealogy data from some early funeral home records is included in this
recently completed work. Maxine Powell

"Kerr County Album, Kerrville, Texas" - Published by the Kerr County Historical Commission

This book was published for the Texas Sesquicentennial Year of 1986 and contains
biographical sketches of many Kerr County families. Mike Bowlin

"Kerr County Texas 1856-1976" by Clara Watkins

Gives a history of the county from early times and contains some individual records of pioneer families.
Norma Karter

Photo Index for "Kerr County Texas 1856-1976" (See Note at the end of the Index)

Biography Index for "Kerr County Texas 1856-1976"
(a list of individual biographical sketches in this book)

"Kerr County Death Records 1903-1960" Gloria Dozier

Obituary Look-ups - starting in 1902 (some papers may be missing) - Norma Karter

"Confederate Veterans of Kerr County Texas" compiled by Shirley Smith, U.D.C.
Pub. 1991, Addendum 1994. Maxine Powell

"The Eckerts Golden Opportunity"

Vol I written & compiled by Julius E. DeVos 1977
Vol II compiled by descendants of the original 5 immigrants, 1997.
This is about four Eckert brothers and their sister: Karl Frederick, Ludwig, Georg Philipp, Bernhardt and Elisabetha Eckert, natives of Hueffenhardt, Baden, Germany, arriving at Indianola, TX, in 1853 and 1856. Maxine Powell

"The History of Eastern Kerr County" by Gerald Witt

This history has biographical sketches of early Kerr Co residents, marriage records for 1856-1886, histories of towns, churches and schools in the early days. Pub. 1986 Gerald Witt

"Masters Family History" compiled by Maxine Page Powell

History of Jacob Masters, born about 1780 in North Carolina, his son, Jacob, Jr., and his grandson, Abraham, born 1834 in Houston County, TX. 1994. Maxine Powell

"A Book of Pages - The Page Family" compiled by Maxine Page Powell

The story of John Page of South Carolina, born about 1756, and his sons, John, Jr., and James. 1999
Maxine Powell

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