Rusk County, Texas:
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Projects

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

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

Cemeteries (11)

Census Records and Indexes (42)

Court and Legal Records

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

Ethnic

• Mount Tabor Indian Community of Texas  Family Ties

History

• National Register of Historic Places 
• Old Smith County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Rusk County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Rusk County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Rusk County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Rusk County Historic Markers 

• Churches and Other Religious Institutions

  • The Soda Lake Baptist Association      (Source: Wayback Machine)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (51)

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

  • Henderson, TX Kicked by Mule, Jun 1925      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Henderson, TX Oilfield Fire, Mar 1933      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • New London Texas School Explosion  March 18, 1937
  • New London, TX School Explosion, Mar 1937      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Overton, TX train - auto wreck, Mar 1933      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Overton, Tx., Oil Tank Explosion, May, 1934      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Reeves, Refugio, Roberts, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels and Rusk County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Rusk County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Introduction and Guides (13)

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 (16)

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)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Rusk County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • 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

• Chronicling America  Rusk County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Rusk County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Search Henderson Historical Newspapers  Free search     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• 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 
• Overton, Texas Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

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)

School Records and Histories

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

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)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Rusk County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• East Texas Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (51)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)
• Texas County Tax Rolls  1846-1910     (Source: Family History Library)

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)
• Rusk County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Tatum Depot 

Vital Records

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

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