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Texas is the
second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state
in the contiguous United States.
The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends"
or "allies"[7].
Located in the South Central United States,
Texas is bordered by Mexico to the south, New
Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas
to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of
268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), and a growing
population of 24.6 million residents.[8]
Houston
is the largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest
in the United States, while Dallas–Fort Worth and
Houston are the 4th and 6th largest United States
metropolitan areas. Other major cities include San
Antonio, El Paso, and Austin—the
state capital.
Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State to signify Texas as an
independent republic and as a reminder of the state's struggle for
independence from Mexico. The "Lone Star" can be found on the Texas
State Flag and on the Texas State Seal today.[9] Due to its size and geologic features
such as the Balcones Fault, Texas
contains diverse landscapes that resemble
both the American Southeast and the Southwest.[10]
Although Texas is popularly associated with the Southwestern deserts,
less than 10% of the land area is desert.[11]
Most of the population centers are located in areas of former prairies,
grasslands,
forests,
and the coastline. Traveling from east to west, one can observe terrain that
ranges from coastal swamps
and piney
woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, and finally the desert
and mountains of the Big Bend. Due to its long
history as a center of the American cattle
industry, Texas is associated with the image of the cowboy. The term "six flags over Texas"
came from the several nations that had rule over the territory. Spain
was the first European country to claim the area of Texas. France
held a short-lived colony in Texas.
Mexico
controlled the territory until 1836 when Texas won its independence, becoming
an independent Republic. In 1845 it joined
the United States as the 28th state. The state's annexation
set off a chain of events
that caused the Mexican–American War in
1846. Texas declared its secession from the United States in early 1861,
joining the Confederate States of
America during the American Civil War. After
the war and its restoration to the Union, Texas entered a long period of
economic stagnation. In the early 1900s, oil
discoveries
initiated an economic boom in the state.
Texas has since economically diversified.
Today it has more Fortune 500 companies than
any other U.S. state.[12][13]
With a growing base of industry, the state is a leader in many, including agriculture,
petrochemicals,
energy,
computers and electronics, aerospace,
and biomedical sciences. It
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Texas State Library and Archives
Commission, P.O. Box 12927, Austin, TX
78711-2927 ·
Texas State Archives, Regional Historical Resource Depository, University Archives, East Texas State University, Commerce, TX
75428-2810 ·
Dallas Public Library, 1515 Young Street Dallas, TX 75201 ·
Houston Public Library, 500 McKinney Street Houston, TX
77002 ·
Catholic Archives of
Texas, P.O. Box 13327, 1600 Congress Ave.,
Austin, TX 78811-3327 ·
Texas Land Office,
Archives & Records Division, Stephen F. Austin Bldg., 1700 North
Congress, Austin, TX 78701-1495 |
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HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL
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Texas Genealogical Society, 2505 Beluche Drive, Galveston 77551 ·
Texas Historical Commision ·
East Texas Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 6967, Tyler 75711 [Counties Covered: Anderson,
Henderson, Smith, Rusk, Gregg, Panola] ·
SouthEast Texas Genealogical & Historical Society, c/o Tyrrell Historical Library, P.O. Box 3827, Beaumont, TX
77704-3827. [Counties Covered: Jefferson, Tyler, San Jacinto, Polk,
Chambers, Newton, Hardin, Liberty, Orange, Jasper] ·
South Texas Genealogical Society, Inc., PO Box 754, Beeville, TX 78104-0754 [Counties Covered: Bee, Goliad,
Karnes, Live Oak, Refugio & San Patricio] ·
East Texas Historical Association, P. O. Box 6223 SFA Station, Nacogdoches, TX 75962-6223; Phone:
(936) 468-2407, FAX: (936) 468-2190 ·
Texas State Genealogical Society ·
Texas State Historical
Association, 2/306 Sid Richardson Hall, Austin
78712, ·
Polish Genealogical Society of Texas, Rt. 1, Box 475-S, Navasota, TX 77868 ·
North Texas Cornish Society, 1300 Canterbury Court, Arlington
76013-1002 ·
Czech Heritage Society of Texas, 7411 Kite Hill, Houston, TX 77041 ·
Spanish American Genealogical
Association ·
German-Texan Heritage
Society, 507 E. 10th St., P.O. Box 684171,
Austin, TX 78768-4171 |
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Anderson
Andrews
Angelina
Aransas
Archer
Armstrong
Atascosa
Austin
Bandera
Bastrop
Bee
Bell
Bexar
Blanco
Bosque
Bowie
Brazoria
Brazos
Brewster
Briscoe
Brown
Burleson
Burnet
Caldwell
Calhoun
Callahan
Cameron
Carson
Cass
Chambers
Cherokee
Clay
Coke
Collin
Collingsworth
Colorado
Comal
Concho
Cooke
Coryell
Cottle Crockett
Crosby
Culberson
Dallam
Dallas
Dawson
De Witt
Deaf Smith
Denton
Dickens
Dimmit
Donley
Eastland
Ector
Edwards
El Paso
Ellis
Erath
Falls
Fannin Fayette
Fisher
Floyd
Fort Bend
Franklin
Freestone
Frio
Galveston
Garza
Gillespie
Goliad
Gonzales
Gray
Grayson
Gregg
Grimes
Guadalupe
Hale
Hall
Hamilton
Hardeman
Hardin
Harris
Harrison
Hartley
Hays
Hemphill
Henderson
Hidalgo
Hill
Hood
Hopkins
Houston
Howard
Hudspeth
Hunt
Hutchinson
Irion
Jack
Jackson
Jasper
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jim Wells
Johnson
Jones
Karnes
Kaufman
Kendall
Kenedy Kent
Kerr
Kimble
Kinney
Kleberg
Knox
Lamar
Lampasas
Lavaca
Lee
Leon
Liberty
Limestone
Live Oak
Llano
Loving
Lubbock
Lynn
Madison
Marion
Martin
Mason
Matagorda
Maverick
McCulloch
McLennan
McMullen
Medina
Menard
Midland
Milam
Mills
Mitchell
Montague
Montgomery
Morris
Motley
Nacogdoches
Navarro
Newton
Nolan
Nueces
Ochiltree
Oldham
Orange
Palo Pinto
Panola
Parker
Pecos
Polk
Potter
Presidio
Rains
Randall
Reagan
Real
Red River
Refugio
Roberts
Robertson
Rockwall
Runnels
Rusk
Sabine
San Augustine
San Jacinto
San Patricio
San Saba
Schleicher
Shackelford
Shelby
Smith
Somervell
Starr
Stephens
Sutton
Tarrant
Taylor
Terrell
Throckmorton
Titus
Tom Green
Travis
Trinity
Upshur
Uvalde
Val Verde
Van Zandt
Victoria
Walker
Waller
Washington
Webb
Wharton
Wheeler
Wichita
Wilbarger
Willacy
Williamson
Wilson
Winkler
Wise
Wood
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Azbell; Bennett; Billings;
Bishop; Brown; Carlock; Dickson; Douglass;
Elliott; Giddens; Hardy; Henderson;
Higgins; Jones; Light; Martin; McInvale; McVicker; Moreland;
Peachee;
Peyton; Pinnell; Rhodes; Rucker; Scruggs; Thompson;
Walker; Warren; Whitehead;
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get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
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that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
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Ancestral Counties
The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a
specific ancestral county, go to our Ancestral
Locations home page. Here you will find
additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information about
our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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Texas Cities -
profiles of 9,194 Texas cities,
towns & neighborhoods Texas Physical
Features such as lakes, islands &
steams Texas Cultural Features such as schools,
parks, hospitals & airports Texas Civil Features such as Native Areas
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Clicking on
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(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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Anderson | Andrews | Angelina | Aransas | Archer | Armstrong | Atascosa | Austin | Bailey | Bandera | Bastrop | Baylor | Bee | Bell | Bexar | Blanco | Borden | Bosque | Bowie | Brazoria | Brazos | Brewster | Briscoe | Brooks | Brown | Burleson | Burnet | Caldwell | Calhoun | Callahan | Cameron | Camp | Carson | Cass | Castro | Chambers | Cherokee | Childress | Clay | Cochran | Coke | Coleman | Collin | Collingsworth | Colorado | Comal | Comanche | Concho | Cooke | Coryell | Cottle |
Crane | Crockett | Crosby | Culberson | Dallam | Dallas | Dawson | Deaf Smith | Delta | Denton | DeWitt | Dickens | Dimmit | Donley | Duval | Eastland | Ector | Edwards | Ellis | El Paso | Erath | Falls | Fannin |
Fayette | Fisher | Floyd | Foard | Fort Bend | Franklin | Freestone | Frio | Gaines | Galveston | Garza | Gillespie | Glasscock | Goliad | Gonzales | Gray | Grayson | Gregg | Grimes | Guadalupe | Hale | Hall | Hamilton | Hansford | Hardeman | Hardin | Harris | Harrison | Hartley | Haskell | Hays | Hemphill | Henderson | Hidalgo | Hill | Hockley | Hood | Hopkins | Houston | Howard | Hudspeth | Hunt | Hutchinson | Irion | Jack | Jackson | Jasper | Jeff Davis | Jefferson | Jim Hogg | Jim Wells | Johnson | Jones | Karnes | Kaufman | Kendall | Kenedy |
Kent | Kerr | Kimble | King | Kinney | Kleberg | Knox | Lamar | Lamb | Lampasas | La Salle | Lavaca | Lee | Leon | Liberty | Limestone | Lipscomb | Live Oak | Llano | Loving | Lubbock | Lynn | Madison | Marion | Martin | Mason | Matagorda | Maverick | McCulloch | McLennan | McMullen | Medina | Menard | Midland | Milam | Mills | Mitchell | Montague | Montgomery | Moore | Morris | Motley | Nacogdoches | Navarro | Newton | Nolan | Nueces | Ochiltree | Oldham | Orange | Palo Pinto | Panola | Parker | Parmer | Pecos | Polk | Potter | Presidio | Rains | Randall | Reagan | Real | Red River | Reeves | Refugio | Roberts | Robertson | Rockwall | Runnels | Rusk | Sabine | San Augustine | San Jacinto | San Patricio | San Saba | Schleicher | Scurry | Shackelford | Shelby | Sherman | Smith | Somervell | Starr | Stephens | Sterling | Stonewall | Sutton | Swisher | Tarrant | Taylor | Terrell | Terry | Throckmorton | Titus | Tom Green | Travis | Trinity | Tyler | Upshur | Upton | Uvalde | Val Verde | Van Zandt | Victoria | Walker | Waller | Ward | Washington | Webb | Wharton | Wheeler | Wichita | Wilbarger | Willacy | Williamson | Wilson | Winkler | Wise | Wood | Yoakum | Young | Zapata | Zavala |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium
> Genealogy > USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb
- Libraries on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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