Rains County, Texas:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Hopkins County, TX  to the northeast
• Hunt County, TX  to the northwest
• Van Zandt County, TX  to the southwest
• Wood County, TX  to the east

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

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

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (20)

History

• National Register of Historic Places 
• Rain County Courthouse - Emory  Historic Courthouses in Texas
• Rains County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Rains County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Rains County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (23)

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

  • Emery, TX Tornado, May 1907      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Emory, TX Tornado, Mar 1894      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Rains County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Reeves, Refugio, Roberts, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels and Rusk County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)

Introduction and Guides (13)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Rains County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Rains County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Rains County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Rains 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)

• TXRAINS-L Rains County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Rains 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)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Rains County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Rains County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Historical Emory Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• News from Old Rains County      (Source: The Olden Times - Historic Newspapers Online)
• Rains County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Rains County Leacer  Select "Obits" from the menu on the left

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Rains County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)

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

• Combs &c. Families of Rains County 
• Biography of V. M. Threlkeld      (Source: Internet Archive)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Rains County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Patents  Rains County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Rains County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• Rains County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Rains County, TX, Death Certificates, 1924-1948      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• 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 Rains County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Rains County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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