Fort Bend County, Texas:
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Projects

• Fort Bend County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Fort Bend County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Fort Bend County, Texas Genealogy and History      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)

Adjacent counties

• Austin County, TX  to the northwest
• Brazoria County, TX  to the southeast
• Harris County, TX  to the northeast
• Matagorda County, TX  to the south
• Waller County, TX  to the north
• Wharton County, TX  to the west

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

• Fort Bend Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Fort Bend County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Fort Bend County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (13)

Census Records and Indexes (32)

Court and Legal Records

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

History

• About the County  History
• Fort Bend County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Fort Bend County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Fort Bend County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Fort Bend County Historical Markers      (Source: The Historical Marker Database)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships (48)

• Library

  • History of Fort Bend County Libraries 

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

  • Falls, Fannin, Fayette, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone and Frio County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Fort Bend County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Missouri City, TX Television Tower Collapse, Dec 1982      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Richmond, TX auto wreck, Sept 1930      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Tavenor, TX Automobile And Train Collision, July 1926      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (10)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXFORTBE-L Fort Bend County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (13)

Military Records and Histories

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Fort Bend County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Colorado through Hamilton Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Fort Bend County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Chronicling America  Ft. Bend County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Fort Bend County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• The Herald-Coaster  Rosenberg     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Suffolk News-Herald  Rosenberg, TX     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Sugar Land, Texas Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Fort Bend County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Fort Bend County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• The Portal to Texas History  Fort Bend County

School Records and Histories

• Lamar High School - Lamar Yearbook (Rosenberg, TX)  Class of 1987     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Rosenberg School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Rosenberg-Richmond School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Stafford School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Search Engines and Searchable Databases

• Marriage Records Search  County Clerk's Office
• Search Birth Index  County Clerk's Office
• Search Death Index  County Clerk's Office

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Fort Bend County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Fort Bend County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• George Ranch      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Fort Bend County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Fort Bend Archeological Society      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Fort Bend Chapter  Richmond     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Fort Bend County Historical Commission 
• Ft. Bend County Chapter  Czech Heritage Society of Texas

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (17)

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 Fort Bend 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  Fort Bend County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records (15)

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