Brazoria County, Texas:
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Projects

• Brazoria County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Brazoria County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Fort Bend County, TX  to the northwest
• Galveston County, TX  to the east
• Harris County, TX  to the north
• Matagorda County, TX  to the west
• Wharton County, TX  to the west

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

• Angleton GEDCOM Index 
• Brazoria Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Brazoria County Biographies      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Brazoria County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Brazoria County GEDCOM Index 
• Danbury GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (11)

Census Records and Indexes (35)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Brazoria County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

History

• Brazoria County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Brazoria County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Brazoria County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Brazoria County Historical Markers      (Source: The Historical Marker Database)
• Brazoria Courthouse History 
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships (67)

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

  • Alvin, TX Train Wreck Aug 1923      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Angleton, Texas Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson and Burnet County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Brazoria County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Brookside Village, TX Gas Pipeline Explosion, Oct 1978      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Freeport, TX Chemical Plant Explosion, Oct 1960      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Freeport, TX Tornado And Storm Damage, Nov 1943      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (10)

Lookups

• Brazoria County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)
• Brazoria County Texas Genealogical Research      ($)
• Brazoria County, Texas, Genealogical Research      ($)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Brazoria County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Brazoria County, TX Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• TXBRAZOR-L Brazoria County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Brazoria County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Texas  Reel 437 - Capt. Arnold's Co., Infantry Riflemen, Militia Capt. Atkins' Co., State Troops (The Galveston Coast Guards) Capt. Benton's Co., Volunteers Brazoria County Minutemen Capt. Watts Cameron's Co., Infantry Carter's Co., Infantry (Austin City Light Infantry)     (Source: Internet Archive)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Anderson through Collin Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Brazoria County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Brazoria County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Brazoria County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Brazoria County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Chronicling America  Brazoria County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Clute Historical Newspapers      (Source: Newspapers.com)     ($)
• Freeport Historical Newspapers      (Source: Newspapers.com)     ($)
• Historical Clute Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Historical Freeport Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Historical San Luis Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Search Brazoria Historical Newspapers  Free search     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (11)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Brazoria County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Brazoria County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• Historical Postcards of Brazoria County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• The Portal to Texas History  Brazoria County
• Texas--Brazoria County--Hoskins Mound.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• West Columbia  Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• Alvin School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Clute School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Sweeny School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• West Columbia School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Brazoria County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Brazoria County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• Brazoria County, Texas  1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans     (Source: Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870)
• Ellersly Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• Levi Jordan      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Brazoria County     (Source: Family History Library)
• Varner-Hogg Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)

Societies

• Asa Underwood Chapter  West Columbia     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Brazosport Genealogy Society 
• Fort Velasco Chapter  Lake Jackson     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Lamar Fontaine Chapter 33  Alvin     (Source: United Daughters of the Confederacy)
• Pearland Historical Society 
• Stephen F. Austin Chapter #6  Angleton     (Source: Sons of the Republic of Texas)
• Texas Czech Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (19)

Tax Lists

• Texas County Tax Rolls  1846-1910     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

• Brazoria County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Brazoria County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Building histories of Brazoria County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Brazoria County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Station Velasco  Coast Guard Station #219

Vital Records

• Brazoria County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Brazoria County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Early Marriages of Brazoria County      (Source: Jan Parsons Armstrong)
• Texas Birth Certificates      (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Texas Death Certificates      (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Texas Vital Records: Marriages 1824-1900  includes Brazoria County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Brazoria County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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