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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Calcasieu Parish, LA  to the northeast
• Cameron Parish, LA  to the east
• Hardin County, TX  to the west
• Jasper County, TX  to the north
• Jefferson County, TX  to the south
• Newton County, TX  to the north

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

• Orange County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom Project 

Cemeteries (12)

Census Records and Indexes (13)

Directories

• Orange City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

History

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

• Histories of specific towns and townships (34)

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

  • Ochiltree, Oldham and Orange County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Orange County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Orange, TX Auto Accident, Jan 1940      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Orange, TX Celebrated Christmas with Dynamite, Dec 1910      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Orange, TX Electric Light Plant Fire, Jul 1898      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Orange, TX Hotel Fire, Dec 1947      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Orange, TX Shipyard Fire, Jan 1910      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Orange County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Orange County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Orange County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• The W. H. Stark House 

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXORANGE-L Orange County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

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

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Morris, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto, Panola, Polk, Presidio, Rains Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Jefferson through Refugio Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Orange County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Daily Herald, Orange  1/2/2008 to Current     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Dorman Funeral Home  Orange, Texas
• Orange County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• The Orange Leader 
• The Orange Leader  Orange, TX     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

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

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Orange County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• SouthEast Texas Genealogical & Historical Society 
• William Diamond Chapter  Orange     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

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

• Combs &c. Families of Orange County 
• Culpepper Archives  Orange County
• Ancestors of the Guidry family of Orange, Texas      (Source: Online Collections at BYU)
• Biography of T. J. Horne  The Presbyterian Ministerial Directory, 1898     (Source: Google Book Search)
• Orange County, Texas LeBlanc Records 
• Henry J. Lutcher  Sawmiller and Architect of Orange, Texas
• Patti L. MacMillan      (Source: Wyoming Biography Database)

• JOHNLYONS-L The descendants of John Lyons who resided in Louisiana from around 1790-1800 until his death about 1834. He and his wife Nancy Anne Ahart left many descendants in the south Louisiana/east Texas area.

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Orange County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• The History of Our Bridges  Bridge City, Texas
• Orange County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Patents  Orange County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

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

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