Welcome to Limestone County

TEXAS RESOURCES

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

a. State Resources (Texas)

Vital Records Information - Texas

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

Texas USGenWeb Project

https://www.txgenweb.org

LoneStar Genealogy

https://www.lonestargenealogy.com/

Texas State Archives and Library

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

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

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

Information for Researchers
https://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
https://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

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

Texas Cemeteries

https://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

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

Texas Confederate Pension Records

https://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

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/regional/states/topics/tx/
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

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

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

https://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

https://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.