Welcome to Limestone County

TEXAS RESOURCES

URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/texas.html

a. State Resources (Texas)

Vital Records Information - Texas

http://vitalrec.com/tx.html
Info for records at the state and county level.

Texas USGenWeb Project

http://www.txgenweb.org

LoneStar Genealogy

http://www.lonestargenealogy.com/

Texas State Archives and Library

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/

Archives
http://isadore.tsl.state.tx.us/a/archives/index.html

Genealogy
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/genfirst.html

Information for Researchers
http://link.tsl.state.tx.us/t/tsainfo/index.html
Includes links to Location and Hours, Reference Services, and Resources for Research.

Library Catalog of Texas State Agencies
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/webcat/index.html
This is the About page for the Libraries, and gives a listing of the libraries. Please note that items older than 1976 may not be in this search engine.

Texas State Cemetery

http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/
Where Texas's most notable are buried. You will find a master list of burials at http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/database.htm

Texas Cemeteries

http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/txcemeteries/
Web site for the TX-Cemeteries mailing list. One page on this web site is devoted to an annotation of Texas Cemeteries who have an Internet Link or lack thereof. This web site is geared to aiding in the effort to inventory and preserve Texas Cemeteries. In addition those who have contributed to the preservation effort are listed with honorable mention on the web page titled "Friends of TX Cemeteries". Maintained by Donna Brand.

Texas General Land Office - ARCHIVES & RECORDS DIVISION

http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/

Texas Confederate Pension Records

http://isadore.tsl.state.tx.us/c/compt/pension.html
This link leads to a search form which allows you to search the pension claims held by the State Archives.

Texas Genealogy Forum

http://www.members.tripod.com/TexasGenealogy
This site offers a surname page, a chat forum (to be scheduled), a Texas links page, and a look-up page. Surnames are divided both by alphabet and also by county.

North Texas Genealogical Association

http://www.wf.net/~fmaier/index.html
Includes the following counties: Archer, Baylor, Clay, Jack, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger, Young.

Czech Heritage Society of Texas

http://www.czechheritage.org/
Associated mailing list: http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/texasczechs (http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/texasczechs), which has been set up to help those genealogy researchers who have ancestors in the former Czech Crown Lands of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia & Slovakia or descendants from those lands who immigrated to Texas.
Note: You may also be interested in the TX-CZECH list hosted at Rootsweb.

Mailing lists

TEXAHOMA-ROOTS
EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS
GERMAN-TEXAN
PERMIAN_BASIN
TexasGenealogy
TEXAS-ROOTS
TX-Landmark (Texas landmarks and vanished communities)
TX-MEX (ancestors who immigrated to Texas from Mexico)
TX_HILL_COUNTRY
WESTEX-ROOTS

A Better Genealogy Research Service -- Texas Research

http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/texas.htm
Site maintained by Brenda Smelser Hay, offering research at the National Archives branch in Fort Worth, TX. Site includes records researched and fees.

Affordable Accountable Ancestry Research Service

http://www.lonestargenealogy.com/kropp/index.html
Diane Tofte Kropp is a certified genealogist who will research the entire United States for you. Sources she has access to and fees are given on the page.