WELCOME TO VICTORIA COUNTY, TEXAS sponsored by Victoria County Genealogical Society

Victoria County Genealogical Society is a partner society of the Texas State Genealogical Society , District 3.

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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.

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Spanish Genealogy
Research help from Gloria Candelaria

1850 Census found on Rootsweb	1880 US Census found on Family Search	Former Postmasters 1846-1936
Former Mayors 1839 to the present	Former District Attorneys from 1838	Former Sheriffs from 1838
Early Doctors in Victoria 1836-1920	City Council Members from 1836-1998	Victoria Co. Grist Mills some of the early owners
Early Hotels of Victoria owners and dates	Short Bios of Early Residents	Notes on Early Residents many family connections
Notes from the Victoria Advocate Column "100, 75, 50 Years Ago"	Obituaries from the Victoria Advocate 1885-1887	Obits From the Victoria Advocate Column "100, 75, 50 Years Ago"
Some Death Records McFaddin area,1930-1936	Letters in the Victoria post office, May 1848	Family Histories Add your family history.
Vital Extractions from the Victoria Advocate Vol.III 1894-1897, Vol.IV 1898-1899 and Vol.V 1900-1902	Fugitives Victoria Co. 1866-1877

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NEW for MAY 2008 :

New items in previous months

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Post a new query on the Victoria County Board. Choose "post new message" 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

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You may search our site for a particular name by using this search engine. Remember, there may be several spelling variations for a name.

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BEGINNING GENEALOGY LINKS

• Twelve Beginning Genealogy Lessons offered in The Victoria Advocate by Martha Jones.
• Rootsweb Guide to Tracing Family Trees

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.
• "Relatively Speaking", Martha Jones' weekly column in the Victoria Advocate, can be read online.
• Victoria Preservation, Inc.-tour Old Victoria
• 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

TEXAS RECORDS LINKS:

• Texas County Formation Maps
• Texas Deaths Database website - deaths recorded for the years 1956-1998.
• 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
• Texas Archives - a TXGenWeb Project
• "The Genealogy Page of the National Archives and Records Administration"

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING LINKS:

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas, James Walker Fannin Chapter-this site is managed by our own Billye Jackson.
• Civil War Site
• 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

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This page is a part of the TXGenWeb project and the USGenWeb Project.

November, 2007 - The Victoria County Genealogical Society Crossroads Quarterly, edited by Millie Sweeney, was awarded first place in the Quarterly category by the Texas State Genealogical Society.

November, 2007 - The Victoria County TXGenWeb site, edited by Cynthia and Jack Buttram, was awarded third place website category by the Texas State Genealogical Society.

Last Updated May 6, 2008

e-mail: Jack and Cynthia Buttram Victoria County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 413, Victoria TX 77902

Thanks for visiting our Victoria County page, constructed by Cynthia and Jack Buttram, with special thanks to Kearby Buttram and Wendy Koh. Y'all come back because there's more to come.

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