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Texas

The "Lone Star" State

Texas State Flag

State Seal
Photo Courtesy of Texas Highways

 Welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for the State of Texas.  Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.


Your Texas state coordinator is Debbie

Texas is in need of County Hosts.  It is our hope that most, if not all, of Texas' counties can have their own hosts, who can transcribe data and upload it to the county's webpage.   If interested - please view our Volunteer Information Page and contact Kim  (html knowledge and a desire to transcribe data is required).


I would very much like to make you part of this project.  If you have information that you'd like to share about any town, family, county or subject, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted to the right county.  We are looking for Biographies, Obituaries, Newspaper Stories, History and Family stories.  Email me

 

The Portal to Texas History offers students and lifelong learners a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections.  To sign up for their newsletter, send an email to listserv@unt.edu with this message in the body of the email:  subscribe portaltotexashistory Your Name

 

Are you looking for your ancestors?  Below are links to free data which you might find useful.

Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

The National Archives - Online Veterans and Military Documents

The American Battle Monuments Commission

State Data

State Institutions

African-Americans in Texas Govt in the 1870s

Slavery

Native American History

ONLINE DATA

   

   

Click here to select a county.

View the UPDATE section to see counties we've added data to recently.

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If you have any data to contribute for any of the individual Texas counties, feel free to send it to Debbie

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Black Cowboys (new)

Cowgirl Hall of Fame (new)

Cattle Drives (new)

Railroads (new)

Outlaws (new)

State symbols
Bird: Mockingbird
Flower: Bluebonnet
Tree: Pecan
Song: "Texas, Our Texas"

State Motto:  Friendship

Surrounding States

Bluebonnet State Flower

New Mexico on the west;
Oklahoma on the north (across the Red River)
Louisiana (across the Sabine River)
Arkansas on the east.

To the southwest, across the Rio Grande, Texas borders the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.

To the southeast of Texas is the Gulf of Mexico.

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