Gonzales County, Texas:
Family History & Genealogy, Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Vital Records & More

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Texas > Gonzales County

Please, add your favorite Website(s) to this page!

Projects

• Gonzales County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Gonzales County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Gonzales County, Texas      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas 

Adjacent counties

• Bastrop County, TX  to the north
• Caldwell County, TX  to the north
• De Witt County, TX  to the southeast
• Fayette County, TX  to the northeast
• Guadalupe County, TX  to the west
• Karnes County, TX  to the southwest
• Lavaca County, TX  to the east
• Wilson County, TX  to the west

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

• DeWitt Colony Biographies 
• Gonzales Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Gonzales County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries (11)

Census Records and Indexes (39)

Court and Legal Records

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

Estate Records

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

History

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

• Histories of specific towns and townships (39)

• Library

  • History of Gonzales Public Library 

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

  • Gaines, Galveston, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Goliad, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Gregg, Grimes and Guadalupe County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Gonzales County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Smiley, TX Fire, Jan 1911      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Smiley, TX Plane Crash, Aug 1945      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Waelder, TX Freight Train Collision, Dec 1896      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Gonzales County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Gonzales County Records Center and Archives 
• Gonzales County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• Gonzales Memorial Museum and Amphitheatre 
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Gonzales County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• come_and_take_it  Gonzales County Texas Genealogy     (Source: Yahoo! Groups)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Gonzales County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Gonzales County, TX Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• TXGONZAL-L Gonzales County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• Gonzales County Military Records      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Gonzales County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Gillespie, Goliad, Gonzales, Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hardin, Harrison, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Gonzales County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • 6th Texas Infantry  Company C     (Source: Genealogy Buff)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Colorado through Hamilton Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Gonzales County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Gonzales County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Gonzales County Newspaper Articles      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Finch Funeral Chapels  Nixon, Stockdale, La Vernia, Yorktown and Runge, Texas
• Gonzales County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Gonzales Inquirer 
• Gonzales Inquirer      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Gonzales County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Gonzales County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• Gonzales County Poorhouse Pictures      (Source: The Poorhouse Story)
• Gonzales, Texas Postcards and Photographs  Texas Old Photos     (Source: Family Old Photos)
• The Portal to Texas History  Gonzales County
• Texas--Gonzales County--Gonzales.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Texas--Gonzales County--Waelder.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• Gonzales High School - Lexington Yearbook (Gonzales, TX)  Class of 1978     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Gonzales High School - Lexington Yearbook (Gonzales, TX)  Class of 1981     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Gonzales High School - Lexington Yearbook (Gonzales, TX)  Class of 1982     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Gonzales High School - Lexington Yearbook (Gonzales, TX)  Class of 1983     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Gonzales High School - Lexington Yearbook (Gonzales, TX)  Class of 1989     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

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

Societies

• Gonzales County Chapter  Czech Heritage Society of Texas
• Thomas Shelton Chapter  Gonzales     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (45)

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

Vital Records

• 1850 Mortality Census      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Gonzales County Vital Records      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Gonzales County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• 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 Gonzales County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Gonzales County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Gonzales County     (Source: Family History Library)

Please, add your favorite Website(s) to this page!

This page and its subpages contain 253 links.

Linkpendium's goal is to index every genealogy, geneology, :) family history, family tree, surname, vital records, biography, or otherwise genealogically-related site on the Internet. PLEASE HELP! When you find a useful new resource, go to the right Linkpendium page and click on the "Add your favorite Website(s) to this page" link. Thanks from all of us at Linkpendium!