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Projects

• Rusk County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Rusk County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Rusk County, Texas TXAHGP      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)

Adjacent counties

• Cherokee County, TX  to the west
• Gregg County, TX  to the north
• Harrison County, TX  to the northeast
• Nacogdoches County, TX  to the south
• Panola County, TX  to the east
• Shelby County, TX  to the southeast
• Smith County, TX  to the west

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

• Henderson GEDCOM Index 
• Rusk County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries (11)

Census Records and Indexes (22)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Rusk County Lawyers     (Source: Google Book Search)

Ethnic

• Mount Tabor Indian Community of Texas  Family Ties

History (66)

Introduction and Guides

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

Land Records

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• The Depot Museum  Henderson, Texas
• The Depot Museum Complex  Henderson, Texas
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Rusk County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Rusk County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Rusk County Records      (Source: East Texas Research Center)
• Rusk County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L For anyone who has an interest in genealogy and family history research in Nacogdoches County, Texas and surrounding counties. Surname queries, information about county records, place names, historic sites, famous and little-known people, and places in and around Nacogdoches County and East Texas are all welcome.

  • EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• TX-ETGS-L East Texas Genealogical Society

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

• TXRUSK-L Rusk County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (13)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Rusk 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)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Robertson through Wood Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Rusk County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Search Henderson Historical Newspapers  Free search     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Trammel Trace Tribune  Tatum, TX     (Source: Footnote - Free Trial Available)
• Trammel Trace Tribune  Tatum, Texas     (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Cottle Funeral Home & Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home  Troup and Overton, Texas
• Henderson Daily News 

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

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

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• "No Land . . . Only Slaves!"  Volume 13, Slave Deeds of Rusk County, Texas     ($)
• 1850 Slave Schedules  Rusk County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Rusk County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• East Texas Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (48)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Rusk County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Henderson Depot 
• Kilgore Depot 
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Overton Depot 
• Patents  Rusk County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Tatum Depot 

Vital Records

• Rusk County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-10, 1926-29  Rusk County     (Source: Footnote - Free Trial Available)
• Texas Death Certificates, 1890-1976  Rusk County     (Source: Footnote - Free Trial Available)
• Texas Vital Records: Marriages 1824-1900  includes Rusk County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Rusk County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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