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VICTORIA COUNTY, TEXAS sponsored by Victoria County Genealogical Society |
The purpose of this website is to provide genealogical information, as well as genealogical resources in Victoria County.
We welcome contributions – please contact Jack and Cynthia Buttram if you have information you would like to share.
| County Resources | | | Libraries | | | Cemeteries | | | People | | | Indianola | | | Victoria Gen. Soc.Resources | | | Queries | | | Military | | | Links | | | What's New | | | Meetings, Workshops |
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 Victoria County is honored to now be included in the TXGenWeb Project Hall of Fame. |
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the Texas State Genealogical Society , District 3. |
Victoria was settled as a colony of Martin de Leon in 1824 under the Mexican government. In 1836 it became an original County of the Republic of Texas. Victoria is the county seat.
| VICTORIA COUNTY RESOURCES |
| Victoria County History | Victoria County Maps | Courthouse Records |
| Marriage Records 1838-1855, 1858-1877 |
Marriage Records from The Victoria Advocate |
Victoria City & County School Records |
| Trinity Lutheran Church Records Marriages 1851-1914, Deaths - 1852-1885 Baptisms -  1851-1886,
1887-1914 The baptism records are now complete. |
Victoria Churches before 1900 |
Zion Lutheran Church Mission Valley TX |
| Victoria Preservation, Inc. | Texas Historical Markers in Victoria Co. | Landmark Registry for Victoria Co. |
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Victoria Co. Archives Birth Records - 1926-1934 |
Rootsweb Texas Death Records - 1964-1999 |
Victoria Co. Archives Marriage Records - 1966-2001 |
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Victoria Co. Archives Divorce Records - 1968-2001 |
Bloomington-the First 50 years | Pictures of Old Victoria Today and Yesterday |
| LIBRARY RESOURCES |
| Victoria Public Library | Family History Library Center | |
| Victoria College/Univ. Houston Library | Clayton Genealogical Library, Houston TX | Texas State Library and Archives Commission |
| CEMETERIES |
| Victoria County Cemeteries | Evergreen Cemetery pictures of some markers with comments |
Victoria Co. Cemetery
Photographs Texas Tombstone Project |
| Fordtran Cemetery Also known as the Midgett Cemetery |
Girdy Cemetery pictures of the Girdy family markers |
Memorial Square Cemetery a list of those known to be buried here |
| Mission Valley Cemetery | Union Soldiers Buried at Victoria-1865 | McFaddin Cemetery also contains other info about McFaddin |
| Confederate Soldiers Buried at Victoria | Victoria Catholic
Cemeteries provides a search engine |
Booker/Jewett Cemetery Inventory of Graves with some pictures. |
| Afro-American Funeral Records (includes cemetery info) 1943-1947, 1961-1969, 1969-1981,
1981-1996 |
Oliver Cemetery Telferner Cemetery |
| PEOPLE OF VICTORIA COUNTY |
| MILITARY RECORDS |
| Republic of Texas Muster Roll Capt. John T. Price Co. |
Civil War Muster Roll | TX Union Soldier Schedule Victoria Co., 1890 |
| World Wars I and II some names of those who served. Also some deaths listed |
Veterans of the War with Mexico, 1846-47 Korean War Casualties |
McFaddin Veterans |
| INDIANOLA |
| Indianola Casualities-1875-a list of the dead, missing and property destruction | German Immigrants treated by Dr. Webb in Victoria |
Indianola Database is searchable and includes form for listing your ancestor. |
| VICTORIA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY |
VCGS meets on the 2nd Monday of each month, 7:00pm,
First Christian Church, Colorado and Ben Jordan, Victoria
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the Texas State Genealogical Society , District 3. |
| VCGS Page Membership application available here |
Victoria Co. Mail List Site
we invite you to join our mail list |
VCGS Quarterly-Table of Contents
Vol.I-Vol.24 |
| Researchers local independent researchers |
Lookups a new service is now offered by VCGS |
Books Available cemetery books and family books |
| Surnames | Members Webpages | Old Postcards of Victoria County |
| Awards Presented to VCGS |
NEW ITEMS
:- Records AfroAmerican funeral records for 1969-1981
have been added.
- Records for 1875-1892 have been added to Trinity Lutheran Church Baptisms, The baptism records are now complete.
Post and View Queries here
Queries should have a Victoria County Connection
Post a new query on the Victoria County Board.
Choose "Start a New Thread" and enter the info required. Your queries posted to this website
will be included in the Victoria County Genealogical Society Crossroads Quarterly
View all queries posted since 31 Mar 2000 on the same board. To search for a specific name,
use the "search" feature and choose "Victoria Board".
You may post free Victoria County queries in our Victoria County Genealogical Society Crossroads
Quarterly.
Queries Archive-alphabetized listing of queries received
before 31 Mar 2000
The Victoria County Genealogical Society normally meets the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the First Christian Church, Colorado and Ben Jordan, Victoria, in the Fellowship Hall.
14 May - 7:00pm - The program "Unusual Resources" will be presented by Susan Kaufman.
Susan is the Manager of the Clayton Library in Houston TX, as well as the president of Texas Genealogical Society.
Since the 35th anniversary of Victoria County Genealogical Society falls on May 14, we will also celebrate our "birthday party" at this
meeting. Please join us for this interesting evening.
BOARD MEETING - 6:00pm
Friday, June 1st, 3:30pm, DeLeon Plaza, Victoria Texas
On Friday, June 1st, at 3:30pm, there will be a re-dedication of the Confederate Memorial Statue which was designed by Pompeo Coppini. This program will be sponsored by the members of the William P. Rogers Chapter 44 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. There will be music by the Crossroads Community Band. Period dress is welcome
Friday, May 18, 9:00am-11:00am – Breaking Through the Brick Wall
Need
help with your family history research? Have you run into a brick wall
that you cannot get through? The computer lab is reserved one Friday per
month from 9-11am for genealogy research. Enjoy individual assistance
and access to our genealogy databases (such as Ancestry.com, Fold3.com,
and HeritageQuest) and software (RootsMagic). Seating is limited.
Registration is requested. To register, call (361)485-3302.
On the 3rd Saturday of each month we will conduct a program covering the basics of genealogy research. The class is designed for beginning genealogy researchers but is open to all. Beginners will learn new and interesting information and seasoned veterans will appreciate the refresher, and probably learn a few things, too. Registration is requested. To register, call (361)485-3302.
Victoria County Historical Commission's Oral History Project - Interviews are recorded, then stored in the Archives to preserve the history of Victoria county. If you are interested in being interviewed, please contact Barbara Smith, Project Chairman and Interviewer. (To return to this page, use your back button.)
How to Clean and Repair Gravestones - from the Victoria County Historical Commission. (To return to this page, use your back button.)
BEGINNING GENEALOGY LINKS
VICTORIA LINKS:
- Spanish Genealogy This is a very helpful website by Gloria Candelaria.
- Victoria Regional History Center, a department of the Victoria College/Univ of Houston-Victoria Library. Many pictures of the Photograph Collection are on line as well as a list of Archives and Manuscripts.
- The Victoria Advocate-Victoria's newspaper online.
- The Victoria Advocate Archives - The Advocate now has archives that can be searched online. Choose "News", Then choose "Archives" in the Search engine. When the Archives page comes up, enter the name you want in the Search engine.
- Victoria Public Library
- Museum of the Coastal Bend Victoria's newest museum, developed to showcase the rich multi-cultural heritage and archaeology of the mid-coastal region of Texas.
- Victoria County Departments Website
- Texas Handbook Online
- Victoria Catholic Cemeteries. There are 25 Victoria Diocese Catholic Cemeteries online at this website.
- Victoria County Archives - a USGenWeb project.
- McFaddin Cemetery - In addition to information about the cemetery, this site also contains information on some of the historic locations in McFaddin, Victoria County, Texas. McFaddin is also known as "Marianna" to many people in the area.
- Vietnam Virtual Wall virtual wall of all those lost during the Viet Nam war with the names, bio's and other information. First click on a state, then when it opens choose a city and a name.
TEXAS RECORDS LINKS:
- Victoria County Landmarks . This is a part of a TXGenWeb project.
- Texas Births Database website - Victoria Births recorded for the years 1926-1995.
- Texas Deaths Database website - Victoria deaths recorded for the years 1964-1999.
- Death Records may also be found here.
- Texas Divorces Database website - Victoria Divorces recorded for the years 1968-2001.
- Texas Marriages Database website - Victoria Marriages recorded for the years 1966-2002.
- Texas State Genealogical Society
- Republic of Texas Claims
- "Postoffices and Postmasters of Texas Counties"
- Biographical Souvenir of Texas - Susan Hawkins, Fannin County CC, loaded this book onto the Fannin Co. website. It was published in 1889 and is some 944 pages of biographical info. There is a full name index.
- Cemeteries of TX
- Texas Surnames
GENEALOGY LINKS:
- TXGenWeb Genealogy
- Index for All TXGenWeb Counties
- USGenWeb Genealogy
- WorldGenWeb Genealogy
- "The Genealogy Page of the National Archives and Records Administration"
MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING LINKS:
- Sons of Confederate Veterans - For more information e-mail stonercamp@yahoo.com or ssgchester@yahoo.com
- Daughters of the Republic of Texas, James Walker Fannin Chapter
- Andersonville Civil War Prison site - this is an informative site for any of you who have Union soldiers in your ancestry who were imprisoned at Andersonville GA.
- Immigration Ships from Germany
- In Memory of Our TXGenWeb Coordinators
Victoria County is honored to have been chosen COUNTY OF THE YEAR for 2009
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 This page is a part of the TXGenWeb project and the USGenWeb Project. |
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please visit the orphan county webpage or contact Shirley Cullum, State Coordinator for TXGenWeb.
Thanks to the volunteers who have helped Victoria County achieve this award three times, which now includes Victoria County in the TXGenWeb Hall of Fame.
November, 2010 - The Victoria County TXGenWeb site was awarded second place for their entry in the website category by the Texas State Genealogical Society.
January, 2010 - The Victoria County TXGenWeb site was named "County of the Year" for 2009 by the TXGenWeb Project Surfin' Committee.
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Victoria County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 413, Victoria TX 77902 |
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