         |
|
Links to Texas History Sites of Interest
- Museum of the Coastal Bend
-
- This website provides access to a database that allows users to search for the location of gravesites in Catholic Cemeteries
within the Victoria Catholic Diocese. Users can search for specific names and locations, as well as maps to locate where a specific individual is interred. Cemeteries in the database are located in Blessing, Ganado, Inez, Nursery, Shiner, Victoria, and Westhoff.
- Texas State Library: Archives
and Manuscripts Division
- This web site, in addition to providing information regarding the
operation of the archives and manuscripts division of the Texas State
Library, also provides the following online indexes:
- General Land Office of the State
of Texas
- This link is to the Archives Division of the GLO, where you will find
links to finding aids and other indexes for state lands claim, grants
and maps.
- Historic Texas
Cemeteries
- This site is dedicated to honoring, recording, and protecting historic
Texas Cemeteries. It contains numerous links to county cemeteries and
information on the Historic Texas Cemeteries program.
- Sons of DeWitt
Colony, Texas
- The Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas is a non-profit, privately funded
enterprise of Wallace L. McKeehan dedicated to the study and dissemination
of information about the people and their familial, social, economic
and political relationships that gave rise to and comprised the DeWitt
Colony in the period 1700-1846.
- The
deLeon's of Victoria
- Family tree site prepared by John Foster.
- Victoria County Genealogical
Society
- TXGenWeb
- The GenWeb project began as an effort to assemble together one point
of entry to county-based genealogical and historical information on
the Internet. Below are links to the GenWeb sites for our region.
- Texas Historical Commission
- The THC has a web site full of information to the researcher. Of special
interest to researchers in this area are:
- Texas Tides
- The Texas Tides project addresses the needs of educators, researchers,
and students for readily accessible primary and secondary cultural resource
materials. The Tides web site documents early Texas history (prehistory
until A.D. 1900) with an east Texas slant.
- Center for American History
- The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin
is a special collections library, archive, and museum that facilitates
research and sponsors programs on the historical development of the
United States. Of special interest is the Eugene C. Barker Texas History
Collection, a component of the Center.
- Links
to Some Texas History Primary Source Documents on the Internet
- Compiled by Roger A. Griffin, PhD., professor emeritus, Austin Community
College
- UNT's Portal to Texas History
- "The Portal to Texas History offers students, educators, and lifelong learners
a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives,
historical societies and private collections. This free resource provides over
46,000 pages of primary source materials, such as books, maps, letters, diaries,
artwork, and photographs"--from the Portal.
|
