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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Anderson County, TX  to the north
• Angelina County, TX  to the east
• Cherokee County, TX  to the northeast
• Leon County, TX  to the west
• Madison County, TX  to the west
• Trinity County, TX  to the southeast
• Walker County, TX  to the south

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

• Houston County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Houston County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (31)

Census Records and Indexes (15)

Court and Legal Records

• 1920 Houston County, TX Eastham Prison Farm Resident Employees      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Houston County Lawyers     (Source: Google Book Search)

History

• Houston County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Houston County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Houston County Historical Markers      (Source: Historic Markers)
• Houston County History Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• National Register of Historic Places 
• Old Hamilton County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (107)

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

  • Crockett, TX Auto Wreck, Mar 1943      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Crockett, TX Spidle Variety Store Fire, Apr 1949      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Hardin, Harris, Harrison, Hartley, Haskell, Hays, Hemphill, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hudspeth, Hunt and Hutchinson County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Houston County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Lovelady, TX Playing With Matches Accident, Nov 1891      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Texas locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Houston County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Houston County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Houston County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Houston County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Houston Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Houston County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Houston County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Houston County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Rice Family Log Home  and Mission San Francisco de los Tejas
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXHOUSTO-L Houston County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• Brown, Fort, TX  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Houston County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Jack, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Lampasas Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Harris through Jasper Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Houston County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Houston County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Houston County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Southern Claims Commission  Huoston County, Texas     (Source: Footnote)

Newspaper Records

• Houston County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Miscellaneous obituaries  1960s and 1970s     (Source: Genealogy Buff)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

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

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Houston County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Houston County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• Trinity Bend Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)

Societies

• Major Jarrell Beasley Chapter  Crockett     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (39)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Houston County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Crockett Depot 
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Houston County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Houston County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Houston County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-10, 1926-29  Houston County     (Source: Footnote - Free Trial Available)
• Texas Death Certificates, 1890-1976  Houston County     (Source: Footnote - Free Trial Available)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Houston County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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