Shelby County, Texas:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• De Soto Parish, LA  to the northeast
• Nacogdoches County, TX  to the west
• Panola County, TX  to the north
• Rusk County, TX  to the northwest
• Sabine County, TX  to the south
• Sabine Parish, LA  to the southeast
• San Augustine County, TX  to the south

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

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

Cemeteries (15)

Census Records and Indexes (37)

Court and Legal Records

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

History

• History of the regulators and moderators and the Shelby County War in 1841 and 1842, in the Republic of Texas      (Source: Internet Archive)
• National Register of Historic Places 
• Shelby County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Shelby County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Shelby County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (62)

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

  • Center, TX Gas Explosion, Dec 1935      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Center, TX Town Fire, Mar 1911      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San Patricio, San Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Shelby, Sherman, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton and Swisher County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Shelby County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Timpson, TX Tornado, May 1935      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Shelby County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Shelby 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)

• TXSHELBY-L Shelby County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• History of the regulators and moderators and the Shelby County war in 1841 and 1842, in the republic of Texas  With facts and incidents in the early history of the republic and state, from 1837 to the annexation, together with incidents of frontier life and Indian troubles, and the war on the reserve in Young County in 1857     (Source: Internet Archive)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Shelby 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  Shelby County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Robertson through Wood Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Shelby County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Shelby County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Shelby County Today  Obituary Archive starts in September of 2005

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

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

School Records and Histories

• The Bear 1957  Timpson     (Source: The Barrett Family's Home Page)
• The Bear 1958  Timpson     (Source: The Barrett Family's Home Page)
• Joaquin School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Shelby County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Shelby County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Shelby County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Jesse Anson Camp #282  Center, Texas     (Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans)
• Shelby County Historical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (39)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Shelby County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Shelby County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Shelby County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)

Vital Records

• Shelby 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  Shelby County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Shelby County     (Source: Family History Library)

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