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Welcome to Texas Genealogy Trails!
*Volunteers dedicated to putting free data online*
This Galveston County Website is available for adoption.
If interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Information Page and contact Kim.
[Basic webpage design knowledge and a desire to transcribe data is
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| GALVESTON COUNTY is a county located
within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area, on the plains of the Texas Gulf Coast in the southeastern
part of the state. Its county seat is Galveston. |
| American presence in Galveston County began in 1815 when Henry Perry and Warren D.
C. Hall, former members of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition, landed at Bolivar Point in September with three
ships and 200 men. Perry named the point for Simón Bolívar, the "Liberator," who commissioned
him to attack Spanish commerce on the Gulf and direct expeditions against the Spanish in Mexico. |
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| The period from 1815 to 1821, however, was dominated by freebooters, filibusters,
and pirates, notably the Frenchmen Louis Michel Aury and Jean Laffite. Aury arrived with thirteen ships on September
16, 1816, and established a base on Galveston Island. Galveston County was formed in 1838 under the republic
from Harrisburg, Liberty, and Brazoria counties and organized in 1839. When Texas joined the Union, Galveston
was the largest city in Texas, with a population of 3,500. By the eve of the Civil War, however, the county had
only nine manufacturing establishments, and Houston had begun to overshadow Galveston as the state's largest port. |
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Cities and towns
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Bayou Vista
Clear Lake Shores
Dickinson
Friendswood
Galveston
Hitchcock
Jamaica Beach
Kemah
La Marque
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League
City
Santa Fe
Texas City
Village:
Tiki Island
Unincorporated Areas:
Bacliff
Bolivar Peninsula
High Island
Port Bolivar
San Leon
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The
Rosenberg Library is the oldest public library in Texas and serves as the headquarters for the Galveston County
Library System. Its librarian also functions as the Galveston County librarian
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ONLINE DATA
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Mockingbird
State Bird
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Website Updates
Dec 2009: A few burials in San Leon, Galveston Mem Park, Dickinson and Fairview Cemeteries; Births from 1903, 1904,
1905; Deaths for 1905-1915; Obituaries for ADOUE, SEALY
Jan 2009: Death Notice for DAVIS; Story of Great Storm of 1900; Birth Michele Marie Roman; Portion of 1920 &
1930 U.S. Census; Newspaper articles; Portions of 1870, 1880 and 1900 Census; 1970 - 2006 Marriages; Biographies;
History of Newspapers
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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 Census, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Biographies,
Obituaries, and Newspaper Stories
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