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Tarrant County TXGenWeb Guide To Locating Tarrant County Records
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| Birth Records | Tarrant County Courthouse - The State of Texas did not begin requiring birth records until 1903. Some early records may not exist because was several years before there was full compliance with this new law. There will be some records on file that predate 1903. They were filed much later as Delayed Birth Records for various legal reasons, such as to apply for social security. |
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The Tarrant County Health Dept. keeps birth records on individuals who were born inside the city limits of communities with a population of 2400 or more. |
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| Texas Department of State Health Services. (Texas Vital Statistics) |  |
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| The USGenWeb Project, Tarrant County Archives has Birth Records from 1926 to 1995. | |
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| Death Records | (Moved to Page 202) |
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Marriage Records |
(Moved to Page 203) |
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| Divorce Records | The Fort Worth Public Library has the Texas State Divorce Index from 1968 through 1998. | |
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| Texas Department of State Health Services. (Texas Vital Statistics) | |
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| The USGenWeb Project, Tarrant County Archives has Divorce Records from 1968 to 2001. | |
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| Census Records | Only the 1850 Federal census for Tarrant County is on-line. If any of you have access to other census records for our county and are willing to transcribe them, we always welcome the volunteer work. |
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| The FamilySearch website has the entire 1880 US census on-line. | |
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| The Fort Worth Public Library has all available Federal census' for Texas through 1930. | |
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The National Archives and Records Administration, Southwest Branch in Fort Worth has a complete set of all Federal census' through 1930. |
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| Tax Records | County tax lists for the years 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1860, 1863 and 1864 are on-line. | |
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| The Fort Worth Public Library has Tarrant County Tax Records on Microfilm from 1850 through 1910. | |
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| You can always count on finding them at the courthouse. | |
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| City Directories | (Moved to Page 206) |
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| Deed Records | The courthouse has deed records and plats from 1876 to present. | |
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Official Public Records, including Deed Records, have recently been made available on-line by the County Clerk. [unable to determine date range of availability] |
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| Probate Records | The courthouse has probate and estate records from 1876 to present. | |
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Official Public Records, including Probate Records, have recently been made available on-line by the County Clerk. [unable to determine date range of availability] |
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Some early Tarrant County probate records survived the 1876 courthouse fire. These were published in Footprints thirty years ago and we are slowly transcribing them to place on-line. |
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On the Fort Worth Genealogical Society's website you will find an index to probate records from 1876 through 1927. |
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| Assumed Names | Over 516,000 (and counting) Assumed Name Records from 1977 to Present have recently been made available on-line by the County Clerk. |
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| Cemetery Info | Our cemetery database contains information on 167 known cemeteries in Tarrant County. If a cemetery has been inventoried we give the book or periodical where it was found and in many cases we give at least one location where to find the publication. Inscriptions for 63 cemeteries are on our website, plus there are links to 18 additional off-site listings. |
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| Look-Up volunteers are waiting to assist you in searching through 6 other published cemeteries. | |
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| Guide to Tarrant County Cemeteries - Includes histories, locations, first burials and noted burials. | |
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| Obituaries | (Moved to Page 204) |
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| Newspapers | Yesterday's News contains abstracts from area newspapers dating from the 1870's through the 1920's. | |
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| The Fort Worth Public Library has local newspapers on microfilm that date back to the dark ages. | |
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| The Amon Carter Museum has an excellent newspaper collection. | |
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See the website of the Fort Worth Star Telegram online. Articles from 1991 to present are available. Search the archives for free, but there is a fee to display an article after it is found. |
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| School Records | Fort Worth ISD's Billy W. Sills Center for Archives | |
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| Queries | Read current queries in the Rootweb Message Board for Tarrant County or post your own. | |
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| Read or post queries in GenForum's Genealogy Forum for Tarrant County. | |
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Prior to using the query forums, we kept them on the website. Click to proceed to the Query Archives. | |
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| You may also post queries on the mailing list. | |
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This page was last modified 16 Aug 2009. Copyright © Tarrant County TXGenWeb 2001-2009. All rights reserved |
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