Kaufman County, Texas:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Dallas County, TX  to the west
• Ellis County, TX  to the southwest
• Henderson County, TX  to the south
• Hunt County, TX  to the northeast
• Rockwall County, TX  to the north
• Van Zandt County, TX  to the east

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

• Kaufman Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Kaufman County Biographies Project      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Kaufman County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Kaufman County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Cemeteries of Kaufman County Texas      (Source: Cemeteries of Texas)
• Kaufman County  Texas Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Kaufman County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Kaufman County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Kaufman County Cemetery Photographs      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Kaufman County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Kaufman County Texas Cemeteries 
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (34)

Directories

• Telephone Directory of Terrell, Texas  1936, 1943 - 1946, and 1948     (Source: Northeast Texas Digital Collections)

Estate Records

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

Ethnic

• African American residents (current and past) of Kaufman County, Texas      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• U. S. African American Griots      (Source: USGenWeb)

History

• Kaufman County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Kaufman County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Kaufman County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships (43)

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

  • Forney, TX Train Crashes Into Truck, Aug 1929      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg and Knox County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Kaufman County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Kaufman, TX School Fire, Mar 1943      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Terrel, TX Awning Collapse, Nov 1894      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Terrell, Texas Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Terrell, TX Wind Storm, May 1896      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Kaufman County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Kaufman County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• Kaufman Poor Farm Project 
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Kaufman County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Terrell Heritage Society Museum 
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

• Kaufman County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TX-MERCERCOL-L For anyone with a genealogical interest in Mercer's Colony in Texas. Mercer's Colony was secured by Charles Mercer, a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia, as a land grant from the Republic of Texas in 1844 and covered all or part of the present Texas counties of Hunt, Rains, Rockwall, Kaufman, Van Zandt, Henderson, Navarro, Hill, McLennan, Johnston, Ellis and Dallas. Mercer's colonizing association was called the "Texas Association" but is more commonly referred to as Mercer's Colony.

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

• TXKAUFMA-L Kaufman County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (14)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Kaufman County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll      (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Kaufman County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Jefferson through Refugio Counties
  • Kaufman County, TX Troops, Jun 1861      (Source: AncestralHeroes.com)

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Kaufman County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Kaufman County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• The Kaufman Herald 
• The Terrell Tribune 
• The Terrell Tribune      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Terrell Tribune  Terrell, TX     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historical Postcards of Kaufman County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kaufman County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• Kaufman County Poorhouse Pictures      (Source: The Poorhouse Story)
• The Portal to Texas History  Kaufman County
• Texas--Kaufman County.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• Kaufman School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Terrell School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• "No Land . . . Only Slaves!"  Volume 4, Slave Deeds of Harrison, Hunt & Kaufman Counties, Texas     ($)
• 1850 Slave Schedules  Kaufman County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kaufman County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Kaufman County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Confederate Rose Chapter 2548  Mabank     (Source: United Daughters of the Confederacy)
• Forney Historic Preservation League 
• Forney Historic Preservation League 
• Gen J S Griffith Chapter 509  Terrell     (Source: United Daughters of the Confederacy)
• Kaufman County Historical Commission 
• Root Seekers Genealogical Society 
• Sarah Maples Chapter  Mabank     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Terrell Heritage Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (38)

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

Vital Records (10)

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