Cotton County, Oklahoma:
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Projects

• Cotton County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Cotton County, Oklahoma Genealogy      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Cotton County, Oklahoma Genealogy      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Indian Lands      (Source: USGenWeb)
• SouthWest Oklahoma History 

Adjacent counties

• Clay County, TX  to the south
• Comanche County, OK  to the north
• Jefferson County, OK  to the southeast
• Stephens County, OK  to the east
• Tillman County, OK  to the west
• Wichita County, TX  to the southwest

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Cotton Co, Oklahoma, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Cotton County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Walters GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (10)

Census Records and Indexes (8)

Estate Records

• Oklahoma Probate Records, 1887-2008  includes Cotton County     (Source: Family History Library)

History

• Cotton County      (Source: Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture)
• Cotton County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Cotton County  Oklahoma Almanac
• Cotton County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Churches and Other Religious Institutions

  • Primitive Baptist Churches  Church and Family History Assistance     (Source: The Primitive Baptist Library of Carthage)

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Devol      (Source: Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture)
  • Randlett      (Source: Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture)
  • Temple      (Source: Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture)
  • Walters      (Source: Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture)

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cimarron, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Craig, Creek and Custer County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Cotton County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Walter, OK Newspaper Office Fire, Jan 1908      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (10)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Cotton County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Cotton County, Oklahoma     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Cotton County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Cotton County, OK Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• OK/IT GenWeb Board  Cotton County     (Source: USGenWeb)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• OKCOTTON-L Cotton County genealogy

  • OKCOTTON-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • OKCOTTON-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • OKCOTTON-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Cotton County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Cotton County Post Offices 
• Cotton County Postal Covers      ($)
• Cotton County Topo Maps and Aerial Photos      (Source: Trails.com)
• Tiger Map Server Browser 

Military Records and Histories

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Cotton County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Cotton County, Oklahoma  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Cotton County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Cotton County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Cotton County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Red River Historian  Your Gateway to the History of Where the South meets the West

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Cotton County     (Source: The Library of Congress)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Cotton County Newspapers      (Source: OKBits)
• Cotton County Oklahoma Obituaries and Death Announcements      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Societies

• Cotton County Genealogy Society 
• Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (13)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Cotton County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Cotton County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Cotton County, Oklahoma     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Cotton County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Cotton County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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