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Links to Texas History Sites of Interest

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.
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 numberous links to county cemeteries and information
on the Historic Texas Cemeteries program.
Lone Star History Links
Compiled by Roger A. Griffin, PhD., professor emeritus, Austin Community
College.
Museum of the Coastal Bend
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.
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 State Library: Archives and Manuscripts Division
This website, 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:
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 website documents early Texas history (prehistory until
A.D. 1900) with an east Texas slant.
TXGEN Web
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.
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.
Victoria Diocese Cemetery Management System
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 Westoff.
 
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