Wilson County, Texas:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Atascosa County, TX  to the southwest
• Bexar County, TX  to the northwest
• Gonzales County, TX  to the east
• Guadalupe County, TX  to the north
• Karnes County, TX  to the southeast

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

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

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (22)

Ethnic

• Silesian Texans 

History

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

• Histories of specific towns and townships (31)

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

  • LaVernia, TX Burt Home Fire, Aug 1930      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Walker, Waller, Ward, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Wise and Wood County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Wilson County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Wilson County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Wilson County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Wilson County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXWILSON-L Wilson County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (11)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Wilson County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Wilson County, Texas Military Data      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Walker, Waller, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Wheeler, Wichita, Williamson, Wilson, Wood, Young, Zapata Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Wilson County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Robertson through Wood Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Wilson County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Wilson County News  2004     (Source: Paper of Record)
• Wilson County News  2004     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Finch Funeral Chapels  Nixon, Stockdale, La Vernia, Yorktown and Runge, Texas
• Wilson County News 
• The Wilson County News      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Wilson County News  Floresville, TX     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

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

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Wilson County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• La Vernia Historical Association 

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 Wilson County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Wilson County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Wilson County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Wilson County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• 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  Wilson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Wilson County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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