Colorado County, Texas:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Austin County, TX  to the northeast
• Fayette County, TX  to the northwest
• Jackson County, TX  to the south
• Lavaca County, TX  to the southwest
• Wharton County, TX  to the southeast

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

• Colorado Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Colorado County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Colorado County Texas      (Source: Cemeteries of Texas)
• Colorado County  Texas Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Colorado County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Colorado County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Colorado County Cemetery Photographs      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Colorado County Cemetery Records      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
• Colorado County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Colorado County Texas Cemeteries      (Source: HistoricTexas.net)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (48)

Church Records

• First United Methodist Church of Columbus  Marriage and Baptism Records, 1895-1999
• Trinity Lutheran Church, Frelsburg  Marriage Records 1896-1925     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)

Court and Legal Records

• Criminal Cause File Index, 1837-1930      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Colorado County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• Minutes of the County Court, 1837-1845      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
• Minutes of the County Court, 1845-1849      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)

Directories

• Known Elected and Appointed Officials      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)

Estate Records

• Texas Probate Records  1800-1900     (Source: Family History Library)

Ethnic

• Silesian Texans 

History

• Colorado County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Colorado County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Colorado County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Consider the Lily  The Ungilded History of Colorado County     (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
• National Register of Historic Places 
• Old Ward County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (35)

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

  • Borden, TX Auto Wreck, Nov 1927      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Colorado County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Columbus, TX Storm, Aug 1894      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Eagle Lake, TX Commuter Plane Crashes, Sep 1991      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Oakland, TX House fire, May 1909      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Texas Tornadoes  Caldwell, Calhoun, Callahan, Cameron, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Chambers, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby and Culberson Counties     (Source: The Tornado Project)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Land Records

• Texas Land Survey Maps for Colorado County, Texas  Mapping original Land owners in the county     (Source: Arphax Publishing Co.)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Colorado County History & Genealogy Material      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
• Colorado County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Colorado County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Colorado County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXCOLORA-L Colorado County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (14)

Military Records and Histories

• Columbus, TX  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Colorado County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Military History      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Callahan, Calhoun, Cameron, Cass, Cherokee, Clay, Coleman, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Coryell, Delta Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Colorado County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Colorado County Confederate Soldiers      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Colorado through Hamilton Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

  • Colorado County, Texas  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)
  • World War II Dead      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records (14)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Colorado County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Colorado County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• Penny Postcards from Texas      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Photograph and Images Collection      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
• The Portal to Texas History  Colorado County

School Records and Histories

• History of the Columbus High School Football Program      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)
• History of the Weimar High School Football Program      (Source: Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus)

Search Engines and Searchable Databases

• The Newspaper Archives of Nesbitt Memorial Library      (Source: Newspaper Archive)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Colorado County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Colorado County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Colorado County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• John Everett Chapter  Columbus     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (30)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)
• Texas County Tax Rolls  1846-1910     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Colorado County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Colorado County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Colorado County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Colorado County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records (10)

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