Lavaca County, Texas:
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Projects

• Lavaca County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Lavaca County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• The Lavaca County TXGenWeb Project      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Colorado County, TX  to the east
• De Witt County, TX  to the southwest
• Fayette County, TX  to the north
• Gonzales County, TX  to the west
• Jackson County, TX  to the southeast
• Victoria County, TX  to the south

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

• Lavaca Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Lavaca County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Lavaca County Texas      (Source: Cemeteries of Texas)
• Lavaca County  Texas Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Lavaca County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Lavaca County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Lavaca County Cemetery Photographs      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Lavaca County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Lavaca County Texas Cemeteries      (Source: HistoricTexas.net)
• Pilot Grove Cemetery, Lavaca County, Texas      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (32)

Court and Legal Records

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

History

• La Baca County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Lavaca County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Lavaca County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Lavaca County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Lavaca County Courthouse - Halletsville  Historic Courthouses in Texas
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships (32)

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

  • Hallettsville, TX Courthouse Square Fire, Dec 1899      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, La Salle, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Limestone, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock and Lynn County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Lavaca County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Shiner, TX Tornado, Jan 1891      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Land Records

• Texas Land Survey Maps for Lavaca County, Texas      (Source: Arphax Publishing Co.)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• French Simpson Memorial Library  Hallettsville, Texas
• Lavaca County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Lavaca County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• Lavaca Historical Museum  Hallettsville, Texas
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Lavaca County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXLAVACA-L Lavaca County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (13)

Military Records and Histories

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

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Limestone, Llano, Madison, Marion, Maverick, Medina, Mitchell, Montgomery Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Lavaca County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • 6th Texas Infantry  Company H     (Source: Genealogy Buff)
  • Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Texas  Reel 220 - Capt. Bone's Co., Cavalry Capt. Coopwood's Spy Co., Cavalry Capt. Doughty's Co., Cavalry, State Troops ("Refugio Spies") Capt. Durant's Co., Cavalry (Local Defense) Lavaca County Minutemen Capt. Lilley's Co., Cavalry (Pardoned Deserters)     (Source: Internet Archive)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Jefferson through Refugio Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Lavaca County     (Source: The Library of Congress)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Kubena Funeral Home  Hallettsville, Texas

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

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

School Records and Histories

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

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

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

Societies

• Lavaca County Chapter  Czech Heritage Society of Texas

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (31)

Tax Lists

• Texas County Tax Rolls  1846-1910     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

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

Vital Records

• Lavaca 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 Lavaca County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Lavaca County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Lavaca County     (Source: Family History Library)

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