Rockwall County, Texas:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Collin County, TX  to the north
• Dallas County, TX  to the west
• Hunt County, TX  to the east
• Kaufman County, TX  to the south

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

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

Cemeteries (12)

Census Records and Indexes (19)

Estate Records

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

History

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

• Histories of specific towns and townships (11)

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

  • Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Reeves, Refugio, Roberts, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels and Rusk County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Rockwall County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Rockwall, TX Rockwall County Courthouse Fire, Jan 1892      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Rockwall County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Rockwall County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Rockwall County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Zaner Robison Historical Museum at Royse City 

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXROCKWA-L Rockwall County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

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

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Red River, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San Saba, Shackelford, Shelby Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Rockwall County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Rockwall County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Rockwall County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Rockwall County Newspaper Articles      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Rockwall County News 
• Rockwall County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Royse City, Texas Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• The Portal to Texas History  Rockwall County
• Rockwall County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)

School Records and Histories

• Rockwall School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Royse City High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Royse City, TX)  Class of 1973     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)

Societies

• Rock Wall Chapter  Rockwall     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Rock Wall Chapter  Rockwall     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Rockwall County Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (12)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Rockwall County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Rockwall County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Rockwall Depot 

Vital Records

• Rockwall 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)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Rockwall County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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