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Projects

• Cooke County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Cooke County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Cooke TX GenExchange      (Source: GenExchange)

Bible Records

• Cooke County Bible Records      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)

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

• Cooke County Biographies      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Cooke County Biographies      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Cooke County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Gainesville GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (26)

Census Records and Indexes (18)

Court and Legal Records

• Cooke County Court Records      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• George Washington Diamond's Account Of The Great Hanging at Gainesville (TX), 1862  Index     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• The Great Gainesville Hanging, October by Pete A. Y. Gunter  Index     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)

History

• Cooke County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Cooke County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Cooke County Courthouse - Gainesville  Historic Courthouses in Texas
• Cooke County History      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Cooke County History Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Early Days In Cooke County by Letitia McCormick  Index     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships (33)

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

  • Cooke County Storms      (Source: NCDC Storm Events)
  • Gainesville, TX Drowning, Mar 1897      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Gainesville, TX Hail and Wind Storm, Apr 1891      (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)
  • Valley View, Texas Tornado Apr 1893      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Woodbine, TX Train Accident, Oct 1900      (Source: GenDisasters)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Kentucky Colonization in Texas  A History of the Peters Colony     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

Introduction and Guides

• Cooke County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Cooke County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Cooke Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)
• Cyndi's List of Texas locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)

Land Records

• Cooke County Land Records      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Cooke County, Texas Land Survey Abstracts      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Cooke County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Cooke County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXCOOKE-L Cooke County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (11)

Military Records and Histories

• Cooke County Military Records      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Crisis and Conflict: Prologue To War  Index     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll      (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • Confederate Pension Applications, Cooke County, TX      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Cooke County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Cooke County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• County Officials 1849-1991, Cooke County, Texas      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Early Days In Cooke County by C. N. Jones  Index     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Migrations through Cooke County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Red River Historian  Your Gateway to the History of Where the South meets the West

Newspaper Records

• Cooke County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Cooke County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Gainesville Daily Register 
• Gainesville Daily Register      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Cooke County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• Cooke County Photo Page      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Historical Postcards of Cooke County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• The Portal to Texas History  Cooke County

School Records and Histories

• Gainesville High School  Classes of 1927-1928, 1934-1935     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Gainesville Junior College  Classes of 1925-1937     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Valley View School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Cooke County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies

• Francis Lightfoot Lee Chapter  Era     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Rebecca Crockett Chapter  Gainesville     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (88)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Cooke County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Cooke County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Gainesville Depot 

Vital Records

• Cooke County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Cooke County Vital Records      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Cooke County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Marriage Records for Cooke County      (Source: A to Z Marriages)
• Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-10, 1926-29  Cooke County     (Source: Footnote)     ($)
• Texas Death Certificates, 1890-1976  Cooke County     (Source: Footnote)     ($)
• Texas Vital Records: Marriages 1824-1900  includes Cooke County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Cooke County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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