Lookups for Montgomery County Texas

Jean Wrote: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:53:37 -0800 (PST)

Yes, the DPS guard (Dot) told me last week that the digging finally began in the basement of the building. I heard them throwing out old shelve units a week ago so guess they are now beginning to do construction beginning at the lower level. Some patrons have frequented the Room 300 where Archives, Genealogy and Reference are all house for now. Makes things cramped for the staffers in each area.

We have computers in one room in Room 300 and some out in the main area for patrons. Copy machines and microfilm copiers and those that copy microfilm and fiche also. We are really limited as to what we have for patrons though. City Directories (Texas Cities - some), Census index books for 1790 to 1880, Heritage Online (you can get this at home though), County Tax Rolls for TX Counties up to 1921, country records for Texas counties for some counties that TSL has on hand. A list is on our website for TSL.

I volunteer twice a week usually at TSL to help patrons with brickwall solutions, learn about genealogy and places to search online.

I can't do any obit searches for newspapers at TSL as they are in storage with the books and other items. But folks can contact Round Rock Public Library for newspapers (various dates) and Georgetown Public Library for newspapers on films (Ralph Love is a volunteer there). Round Rock houses our genealogy collection and has since 1981 WCGS, Inc. (genealogy society). I do lookups for Wmsn. and Travis Co.,TX also.

Just don't have access to obits on film. I have Wmsn. Co., TX Cemeteries in volumes that were compiled by my friend and I in 1980's for the Wmsn. Co., Historical Commission.

Saw Karen Thompson at the SAR/DAR luncheon/meeting yesterday in Austin and she was passing out the Save Austin's Cemeteries brochures to folks. Dale Flatt has a site called Save Austin's Cemeteries online that I belong to as a member. We have been trying to work on Oakwood Cemetery in Austin and have compiled a book on Oakwood. Paul Smith compiled one but used another book prior to re-create his list. Bob Tieman has compiled Oakwood Cemetery Book and the info is online at the Austin Gen. Soc. website - Cemeteries.
Austin Memorial Park is online too and Robert Sage is working on Travis County marriages right now to put online. He compiled AMP also.

If anyone needs Mason county help just email me. It would be best if folks could just email me though.