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GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN TEXAS

by Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck, A.B. (cum laude), M.A., M.S., F.N.G.S.

I. MILITARY

a. Texas and the American Revolution. b. Robert H. Thonhoff, The Texas Connection with the American Revolution. c.-------, The Vital Contribution of Spain in the Winning of the American

Revolution. d. Mary S. Fay, War of 1812 Veterans in Texas. e. Granville M. Hough, Spain's Texas Patriots in Its War with England, 1779-

1783 during the American Revolution. f . Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in

Texas. Vol. I 1835-1837. g. Texas Ranger Service Records: Loyalty Rangers 1 reel; Regular Rangers 2

reels; Special Rangers 7 reels. Microfilm.

WarofTexaslndependence

a. Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution. b. Sam Houston Dixon, The Heroes of San Jacinto. c. Republic of Texas Pension Application Abstracts.

Republic of Texas Pension Applications. Microfilm. d. Thomas L. Miller, Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas 1835-1888. e. The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors. f. Linda Ericson Deveraux, The Texas Navy, Freedom Fighters for the Republic

of Texas. g. Frances T. Ingmire, Texas Rangers 1830-1846. h. -------, The Texas Frontiersman, 1839-1860. i.-------, The Texas Ranger Service Records 1847-1900. j. Defenders of the Republic of Texas, Texas Army, Muster Rolls, Receipt

Rolls, and Other Rolls, 1836-1841. k. Gifford White, They Also Served, Texas Service Records from Headright

Certificates. I. Kathryn H. Davis, East Texas Militiamen 1838-1839.

Mexican War

a. Charles D. Spurlin, Texas Veterans in the Mexican War, Muster Rolls of the Texas Military Units.

b. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served during the Mexican War in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 19 rolls.

e. Virgil D. White, Index to Mexican War Pension Files. e. Joe & Carolyn Ericson, From the Rio Grande to the Halls of Montezuma.

Civil War

a. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 2 rolls.

b. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 13 rolls.

c. Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 41 rolls.

d. Texas Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865. 2 vols. [116,000] e. The Confederate Muster Roll Card Index, Microfilm, 11 rolls. f. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in

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Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 445 rolls. g. Virgil D. White, Index to Texas CSA Pension Files. h. John M. Kinney, Index to Applications for Texas Confederate Pensions. i. Texas Confederate Pension Files. Microfilm, 699 rolls. j. Thomas Lloyd Miller, Texas Confederate Script Grantees C.S.A. k. Mamie Yeary, Reminiscences of the Boy in Gray. I. Sidney Smith Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray. m. Linda Mearse, Confederate Indigent Families Lists of Texas 1863-1865. n. Bryan Lee Dilts, 1890 Texas Census: Index of Civil War Veterans and Their

Widows. o. List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1887, vol. V, pp. 267-91. p. Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas. q. L. L. Knight, Their Last Full Measure: Texas Confederate Casualty Lists

1861-1865. 3 vols. r. General Index to Pension Files, 1816-1935. Microfilm, 535 rolls. s. Kathy Wells, Union Veterans of the Civil War Buried in the State of Texas. t. Roster of Union Soldiers 1861-1865: Missouri ... Texas .... u. Jerry D. Thompson, Mexican Texans in the Union Army. v. Czechs in Grey and Blue Too! w. Jerry D. Thompson, Vaqueros in Blue and Gray. x. James A. Mundie et al., Texas Burial Sites of Civil Notables: A

Biographical and Pictorial and Field.

The World Wars

a. History of Texas World War Heroes. b. Texas Selective System Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918. Microfilm, 183

rolls. c. History of the Second World War, a Memorial, a Remembrance, an

Appreciation. d. State Summary of War Casualties [Texas] U.S. Navy 1946. e. Texas Veterans of Czech Ancestry. f. Ashley K. Nuckols, Deaths American Expeditionary Force W.W. 11917, 1918:

Texas. Indian Campaigns

a. Robert W. Stephens, Texas Ranger Indian War Pensions. b. Donald A. Swanson, Enlistment Record of Indian Scouts in One of the Scout

Detachments at Fort Clark, Texas.

II. CENSUS

a. Marion Day Mullins, The First Census of Texas 1829-1836. b. Residents of Texas 1782-1836. c. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1820-29 Census Index. d. Gifford White, 1830 Citizens of Texas. e. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1830-39 Census Index. f. Gifford White, 1840 Citizens of Texas. g. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas Census Records 1841-1849. h. Marion Day Mullins, Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846. i. Beth Dorman, Taxpayers of the Republic of Texas Covering 30 Counties and

the District of Panela. j. Index to Texas Census Records 1850-1860, Microfilm, 11 rolls. k. Vera C. Carpenter, The State of Texas Federal Population Schedules,

7th Census of the U.S., 1850. I. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1850 Census Index. m. -------, Texas 1850 Slave Schedule. n. Heritage Quest, Texas 1850 census Index, A-Z. n. Gifford White, Texas Scholastics, 1854-1855: A State Census of School

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Children. o. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1860 Census Index. p. -------, Texas 1870 Census Index. q. -------, Texas 1880 Federal Census Index. r. Helen Marsh, Tennesseans in Texas. s. Ronald Vern Jackson, Mortality Schedule Texas 1850. t. -------, Mortality Schedule Texas 1860. u. -------, Mortality Schedule Texas 1870. v. Frances Woods, 1850 Mortality Schedules of Texas. w. -------, 1860 Mortality Schedules of Texas. x. The 1867 Voter Registration Lists of Texas, Microfilm, 12 rolls.

[CD index] y. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, Texas, 1865-1866. 2 rolls.

Ill. Newspapers

a. Index to Early Texas Newspapers, Microfilm, 43 rolls. b. Michael Kelsey, Genealogical Abstracts from Central Texas Newspapers

[1885-1899]. c.-------, Miscellaneous Texas Newspaper Abstracts [1840-1882]. d.-------, Genealogical Abstracts from the Austin, Texas State Gazette

[1849-1859]. e. Helen M. Lu, Texas Methodist Newspaper Abstracts, 17 Apr. 1850-17 Sept.

1881. f.-------, Texas Baptist Newspaper Abstracts, 7 Mar. 1855-21 Feb. 1884. g.-------, Texas Presbyterian Newspaper Abstracts 3 Nov. 1846-14 Aug.

1854, 25 Feb. 1876--15 Feb. 1875. h. -------, Southwestern Presbyterian Newspaper Abstracts 25 Feb. 1869-

8 Feb. 1877. e. Texas Newspapers 1813-1893, A Union List of Newspapers .... f. Newspapers in Microform United States 1948-1972, 1973-1977, 1978, 1979. g. Helen S. Swenson, Early Texas News 1831-1858, Abstracts from Early Texas

Newspapers. h. Linda Nicklas, Abstracts of Early East Texas Newspapers, 1839-1856. i. Kevin Ladd, Gone to Texas: Genealogical Abstracts from The Telegraph and

Texas Register, 1835-1841.

IV. Vital Statistics

a. Bennett L. Smith, Marriage by Bond in Colonial Texas. b. Norma R. Grammar, Marriage Records in Early Texas, 1824-46. c. Helen S. Swenson, 8800 Texas Marriages 1824-1850. d. Alice D. Gracy, Early Texas Birth Records 1838-1878. e. Guide to Public Vital Statistics Records in Texas. f. Index to Texas Deaths, 1903-1973, Microfilm.

Index to Texas Deaths, 1964-2001, Microfiche. Index to Texas Marriages, 1968-2001, Microfiche. Index to Texas Divorces, 1966-2001, Microfiche.

g. The Index to Probate Birth Records; Index to Probate Birth Records 1945 & Prior; Index Birth Records 1920, Microfilm.

h. The Index to Texas Births, 1903-1973, Microfilm, 50 rolls. i. Sharry Crofford-Gould, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions: A Source Index. j. Margaret A. P. Thetford, Bishop Garret's Journal: Texas 1875-1890. k. Kim Parsons, A Reference to Texas Cemetery Records. I. Texas Marriages, Early to 1850. [17,500 entries] m. Jim C. Ames, West Texas Marriages, Records of Marriages from Some West

Texas Counties. n. S. Kae Partin, Texas Departed: An Index of the 1890 Mortality Schedule of

Texas. 2 vols. in 4.

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o. Raul J. Guerra, Index to the Marriage Investigations of the Diocese of Guadalajara: Provinces of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Nuevo Santander, Texas 1653-1779. 2 vols.

p. Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Records, 1903-1975. Microfilm, 1,384 rolls.

V. Guides

a. Texas County Records, A Guide to the Holdings of the Local Records Division of the Texas State Library of County Records on Microfilm.

b. Livingston's Directory of Texas Historical and Genealogical Organizations. c. John H. Jenkins, Cracker Barrel Chronicles, a Bibliography of Texas

Town and County Histories. d. Tom Munnerlyn, Texas Local History, a Source Book for Available Town and

County Histories. e. The Texas History Collection of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas

Library. f. The Catalog of the Texas Collection in the Barker Texas History Center

the University of Texas at Austin. g. Henry P. Beer, Spanish and Mexican Records of the American Southwest, a

Bibliographical Guide to Archive Sources. h. A Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Texas State Archives. i. Chester V. Kielman, The University of Texas Archives: A Guide to the

Historical Manuscripts in the University of Texas Library. j. James M. Day, The Map Collection of the Texas State Archives 1527-1900. k. The Inventory of County Records. I. M. Claude Lane, Catholic Archives of Texas: History and Preliminary

Inventory. m. Imogene K. Kennedy, Genealogical Records in Texas. n. Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck, Research in Texas. o. Adan Benavides, The Bexar Archives (1717-1836): A Name Guide. p. Robert D. Wood, l,ndexes to the Laredo Archives. q. -------, Documentos Referentes a Los lndios/Doucuments on the Indians. r. -------, Documentos para la Genealogia. s. -------, Documents for the History of Laredo. t. -------, Death and Taxes. u. -------, The History of Mexico 1809-1845 in the Laredo Archives. v. Catalogo del Fondo Colonial Coahuila-Texas (1675-1821).

VI. Land

a. Virginia H. Taylor, Index to Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in Texas. b.-------, Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas. c. Abstract of the Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office. d. John Burlage, Abstract of Valid Land Claims Compiled from the Records of

the General Land Office and Court of Claims of the State of Texas. e. Carolyn Ericson, First Settlers of the Republic of Texas. f. Gifford White, Character Certificates in the General Land Office of

Texas. g. Benjamin F. Purl, Republic of Texas Second Class Certificates. h. Thomas L. Miller, Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas 1825-1885. i.-------, Texas Confederate Script Grantees C.S.A. j. Abstract of All Original Grants and Locations Comprising Texas Land

Titles to August 31, 1945. k. Texas Land Title Abstracts, volume 1-A. I. Texas Family Land Heritage Registry. m. Carolyn Ericson, Nacogdoches, a Record of the Disposition of Land in

East Texas .... p. Gifford White, First Settlers of ____ County, Texas from the



Originals in the General Land Office and the Texas State Archives Austin, Texas.

q. Florence C. Gould, Claiming Their Land, Women Homesteaders in Texas. r. William N. Todd, Guide to Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in South Texas. s. J. J. Bowden, Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in the Chihuahuan

Acquisition. t. Florence J. Scott, Royal Land Grants North of the Rio Grande, 1771-1821.

Early History of Large Grants Made by Spain to Families in the Jurisdiction of Reynosa Which Became a Part of Texas after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848.

u. Jose Felipe de la Pena, Grants of land by Spanish Royal Decree, 1767 and 1784, Porciones in Zapata County and Revilla/Ciudad Guerrero Jurisdiction.

v. Galen D. Greaser, Catalogue of the Spanish Collection of the Texas General Land Office. 2 vols. [+4,300]

w. J. J. Bowden, The Ponce de Leon Land Grant. x. -------, Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in the Chihuahuan Acquisition. y. Guide to Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in South Texas. 2003 ed.

VII. Atlases and Gazetteers

a. William C. Pool, A Historical Atlas of Texas. b. William Thorndale, The Map Guide to the Texas Censuses, 1820-1920. c. The New Handbook of Texas. d. Henry Gannett, A Gazetteer of Texas. e. Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1884-5. f. James L. Wheat, Postmasters and Post Offices in Texas, 1846-1930. g. A. Ray Stephens, Historical Atlas of Texas. h. Luke Gournay, Texas Boundaries: Evolution of the State's Counties.

VIII. Passenger Lists

a. Ship Passenger Lists Port of Galveston, Texas 1846-1871. b. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston, Texas, 1896-1948,

Microfilm, 36 rolls. c. Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston, Texas,

1896-1906, Microfilm, 3 rolls. d. Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston, Texas,

1906-1951, 7 rolls. e. Index to Naturalization Records Issued in the State of Texas, 1846-

1939, Microfilm, 1 O rolls. f. Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Yseleta, Texas, 1924-1954. Microfilm, M1849,

7 rolls. g. Permanent and Statistical Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Eagle Pass, Texas,

June 1905-June 1953. M 1755, 30 rolls. h. Indexes and Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Zapata, Texas, Aug. 1923-Sept.

1953. Microfilm, M2024. 2 rolls. i. Temporary and Non-statistical Manifests of Aliens Arriving at Eagle Pass,

Texas, July 1928--June 1953. Microfilm, 14 rolls. j. Statistical and Non-statistical Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Brownsville,

Texas, February 1905--June 1953. Microfilm M1052, 40 rolls. k. Index and Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Roma, Texas, March 1928--May 1955.

Microfilm M1053, 5 rolls. I. Index to Vessels Arriving at Brownsville, Texas, 1935-1955; Houston, Texas

1948-1954; and at Port Arthur and Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1908-1954. Microfilm M1514, 1 roll.

m. Non-statistical Manifests and Statistical Index Cards of Aliens Arriving at Eagle Pass, Texas, June 1905-November 1929. Microfilm M1754, 27 rolls.

n. Applications for Nonresident Alien's Border Crossing Identification Cards Made at El Paso, Texas, ea. July 1945-December 1952. Microfilm M1756, 62



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rolls. o. Alphabetical Card Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Fort Hancock, Texas,

1924-1954. Microfilm M1766, 2 rolls. p. Alphabetical Card Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Fabens, Texas, July 1924-

1954. Microfilm, M1768, 7 rolls. q. Indexes and Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Rio Grande City, Texas, November

1908-May 1955. Microfilm M1770, 6 rolls. r. Alphabetical Manifests of Non-Mexican Aliens Granted Temporary Admission at

Laredo, Texas, December 1, 1929-April 8, 1955. Microfilm, M1771, 5 rolls. s. Index and Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Progreso/Thayer, Texas, October

1928-May 1955. Microfilm, M1851, 6 rolls. t. Statistical Manifests of Alien Arrivals by Airplane at San Antonio, Texas,

May 17, 1944-March 1952. Microfilm, M1973, 1 roll. u. Index to Manifests of Permanent and Statistical Arrivals at Eagle Pass,

Texas, December 1, 1929-June 1953. Microfilm, M2040, 2 rolls. v. List of Aliens Arriving at Brownsville, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, El Paso,

Laredo, Presidio, Rio Grande City, and Roma, Texas, May 1903--June 1909, and Aros Ranch, Douglas, Lochiel, Naco, and Nogales, Arizona, July 1906-December 1910. Microfilm, A3365, 5 rolls.

w. Certificates of Enrollment Issued for Merchant Vessels at Galveston, Texas, 1846-1860 and 1865-1870, and Master Abstracts of Enrollments Issued for Merchant Vessels at All Texas Ports, 1846-1860 and 1865-June 1911. Microfilm, M1857, 2 rolls.

x. List of Aliens Arriving at Laredo, Texas, from July 1902-1907 via the Mexican National Railroad or the Laredo Foot Bridge. Microfilm, M2008, 1 Roll.

y. Manifests of Aliens Granted Temporary Admission at El Paso, Texas, ea. July 1924-1954. Microfilm, M1757, 97 rolls.

z. Manifests of Aliens Granted Temporary Admission at Laredo, Texas, December 1, 1929-April 8, 1955. Microfilm, M1772, 66 rolls.

IX. Religion

a. Our Catholic Heritage of Texas. b. Timothy J. O'Rourke, Maryland Catholics on the Frontier, the Missouri

and Texas Settlements. c. James M. Carroll, History of Texas Baptists. d. Homer S. Thrall, Brief History of Methodism in Texas. e. Carter E. Boren, Religion on the Texas Frontier. f. Lawrence L. Brown, Episcopal Church in Texas. g. Hainz Carl Ziehe, Centennial Story of the Lutheran Church in Texas

1851-1951. X. Education

a. The Directory of Former Students Texas A & M University 1876-1994.

XI. Periodicals

a. Stirpes, v. I, 1961+, Topical Index v. 1-25 (1961-1985). b. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, v. 1 , 1897 + ; index 1-40, 41-60,

61-70, & 71-80. c. West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, v. 1, 1925+ ; index 1-45,

46-55. d. Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, v. 1, 1963+ e. East Texas Historical Journal, v. 1, 1963+ ; Index 1963-1982. f. Southern Historical Research Magazine, v. 1-2, 1936-37. g. The Panhandle Plains Historical Review, v. 1, 1928+ .

XII. Hereditary Societies

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a. Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas. b. Citizens of the Republic of Texas. c. The Roster of Texas Daughters Revolutionary Ancestors. d. Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution: History, Biographies,

Portraits, and Genealogy. e. Frankie L. Hauser, Mayflower Descendants in the State of Texas and

Their Lineages. f. Texas Charter Members of the Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin in the

Colony of Virginia, 2 v. g. The Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy Ancestor Roster. h. Sons of the Republic of Texas, Microfilm Index. i. Jean M. J. Tabb, Ancestor Lineages of Members Texas Society National

Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century. j. The Marked Gravesites of Citizens of the Republic of Texas. k. Texas State Genealogical Society Applications 1995-1998. Microfilm, 5

rolls. k. Texas First Families Lineages, v. I.

XIII. Biographical Compendia

a. James Pylant, Genealogies of Texas Families: Biographical Notes of Pioneer Settlers.

b. Biographical Gazetteer of Texas. c. Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas. d. Memorial and Genealogical Record of Texas (East). e. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West

Texas. f. T. C. Richardson, East Texas, Its History and Its Makers. g. William S. Speer, Encyclopedia of the New West. h. Ernest E. Bailey, Texas Historical and Biographical Record with a

Genealogical Study. i. Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and Cattlemen

of Texas and Adjacent Territory. j. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas. k. Frank W. Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans. I. Louis W. Kemp, The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence. m. Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses 1832-1845. n. Andrew J. Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas. o. Carolyn R. Ericson, Nacogdoches--Gateway to Texas, a Biographical

Directory. p. Compiled Index to Elected and Appointed Officials of the Republic of Texas

1835-1846. q. Joe E. Ericson, Judges of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1846. r. Arthur C. Burnett, Yankees in the Republic of Texas. s. Debrett's Texas Peerage. t. Index to Proper Names in Gammel's Laws of Texas. u. Rena D. McWilliams, Abstracts of the Laws of Texas, 1822-1852. v. Texas Panhandle Forefathers. w. Old Northwest Texas, Historical, Statistical, Biographical. x. Sons of the Republic of Texas History.

XIV. Ethnic Groups

a. V. A. Svreck, A History of the Czech-Moravian Catholic Communities of Texas.

b. Frederick C. Chabot, With the Makers of San Antonio, Genealogies of the Early Latin, Anglo-American, and German Families ....

c. Worth S. Ray, Austin Colony Pioneers.



d. Stephen F. Austin's Register of Families. e. Betty F. Burr, Nacogdoches Archives, 1835 Entrance Certificates. e. Carolyn Ericson, Citizens and Foreigners of the Nacogdoches District

1809-1836. f. Malcolm D. McLean, Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas. ~ g. Gifford White, Mercer Colonists. h. Bobby Weaver, Castro's Colony. i. Julia N. Waugh, Castroville and Henry Castro, Empressario. j. Seymour V. Connor, Peters Colony of Texas, A History and Biographical

Sketches of the Early Settlers.

A. French

a. George H. Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas, the Story of LaReunion, the Old French Colony.

b. William J. Hammond, LaReunion, a French Settlement in Texas.

B. German

a. Chester Geue, A New Land Beckoned, German Immigration to Texas, 1844-1847.

b. Ethel H. Geue, New Homes in a New Land, German Immigration to Texas 1847-1861.

c. German Texas Heritage Society Newsletter, v.l, 1979+. d. Charles W. Kleinecke, Fisher-Miller Grant and G.E.C. Forever, German

Emigration Company Passenger Lists to Texas July 1844--February 1846. e. W. M. von Mazewski, German Emigration Ships to New Orleans 1865-1869.

C. Wends

a. George C. Engerrand, The So-called Wends of Germany and Their Colonies in Texas and Australia.

b. Anne Blasig, the Wends of Texas. c. George R. Nielsen, In Search of a Home, the Wends Sorbs on the Australian

and Texas Frontier. d. J. McManus, Bastrop and Lee Counties, Texas Wend Colony 1854. e. Lillie M. Caldwell, Texas Wends, Their First Half Century with Historical

& Genealogical Information on the Servin Wends.

D. Czech

a. Estelle Hudson, Czech Pioneers of the Southwest. b. Leo Baca, Czech Immigration Passenger Lists. c. Nase Dejiny, v.l, 1982+ d. Robert Janke, Old Bohemian Tombstones, 4 vols. e. Villages of Origin Protestant Czech Immigrants. f. Albert Blaha, Czech Footprints across the Blue Bonnet Fields of Texas. g. ------, Passenger Lists for Galveston, 1850-1855. h. Robert Janak, Geographic Origin of Czech Texans. i. Drahomir Strnadel, Emigration to Texas from the Mistek District between

1856 and 1900. j. Texas Veterans of Czech Ancestry. k. Robert Janak, Rev. Frank Horak's Funeral Records. I.-------, Rev. Frank Horak's Marriage Records. m. Jody Wright, Czechs in Grey and Blue, Too! n. Edmond H. Hejl, Czech Naturalization and Naturalization Records in Texas. o. Jan Mikeska, Emigrants from the Southwestern Moravia to Texas 1850-1915.

[ea. 1,100] E. Polish



a. T. Lindsay Baker, Early History of Panna Maria, Texas.

F. Swedes

a. Ernest Severin, Swedes in Texas in Words and Pictures 1838-1918.

XV. Probate

a. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. [Atascosa, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos, Brown, Camp, Chambers, Coleman, Delta, Franklin, Gregg, Guadalupe, Hardin, Hays, Liberty, Marion, Morris, Newton, Nolan, Orange, Robertson, Runnels, San Saba, Shelby, Titus, Trinity, Waller, Williamson, and Wood Counties].

XVI. Et Cetera

, a. The Nacogdoches Archives. Microfilm, 27 rolls . b. Republic of Texas Claims. Microfilm, 130 rolls. c. Janna Mayfield, Members of Grand Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Mason.

1885, 1890, and 1895. 6 vols. [24,000 per annum] d. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas, Bureau of

Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869. M821, 32 rolls. e. Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Texas, Bureau

of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. M822, 18 rolls. f. Michael Kelsey, Texas Masonic Deaths with Selected Biographical Sketches. g. Francis W. Seabury, Family Tree Book (The F. W. Seabury Papers). h. 1867 Voter Registration Lists. Microfilm. [index on CD] i. Carl L. Duraine, With All Arms, A Study of a Kindred Group. j . Convict Record Ledgers (1849-1954) & Indexes (1849-1970). Microfilm, 15

rolls. k. James B. Gillett, Fugitives from Justice. I. James M. Day, Post Office Papers of the Republic of Texas 1836-1840. 2

vols. m. Record of Appointment of Postmasters 1832-September 30, 1971. Microfilm,

M841: Texas rolls 121 -127. n. Laredo Archives. Microfilm, 16 rolls.

XVII. Correspondence

a. Eugene C. Barker, The Austin Papers. 3 vols. b. Michael R. Green, Calendar of the Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. c. Charles A. Gulich, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. 6 vols. d. John H. Jenkins, The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836. 10 vols. e. Amelia W . Williams, The Writings of Sam Houston. 8 vols.


f. Michael Kelsey, Texas Masonic Deaths with Selected Biographical Sketches. g. Francis W. Seabury, Family Tree Book (The F. W. Seabury Papers). h. 1867 Voter Registration Lists. Microfilm. (index on CD) i. Carl L. Duraine, With All Arms, A Study of a Kindred Group. j. Convict Record Ledgers (1849-1954) & Indexes (1849-1970). Microfilm, 15

rolls. k. James B. Gillett, Fugitives from Justice. I. James M. Day, Post Office Papers of the Republic of Texas 1836-1840. 2

vols. m. Record of Appointment of Postmasters 1832-September 30, 1971. Microfilm,

M841: Texas rolls 121-127. n. Laredo Archives. Microfilm, 16 rolls.

XVII. Correspondence

a. Eugene C. Barker, The Austin Papers. 3 vols. b . Michael R. Green, Calendar of the Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. c. Charles A. Gulich, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. 6 vols. d. John H. Jenkins, The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836. 10 vols. e. Amelia W. Williams, The Writings of Sam Houston. 8 vols.


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