Wood County, Texas:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Camp County, TX  to the northeast
• Franklin County, TX  to the northeast
• Hopkins County, TX  to the north
• Rains County, TX  to the west
• Smith County, TX  to the south
• Upshur County, TX  to the east
• Van Zandt County, TX  to the southwest

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

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

Cemeteries (17)

Census Records and Indexes (29)

Court and Legal Records

• Judicial Records Search 

History

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

• Churches and Other Religious Institutions

  • History of First United Methodist Church  Winnsboro, Texas     (Source: Northeast Texas Digital Collections)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (64)

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

  • Coke, TX Drilling Accident, May 1957      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Mineola, TX Car Wreck, Mar 1936      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Mineola, TX Cedar Lake Drowning, May 1934      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Mineola, TX Fire, Mar 1883      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Walker, Waller, Ward, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Wise and Wood County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Winnsboro, TX Tornado, Apr 1919      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Wood County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Governor Hogg Shrine Historic Site 
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Wood County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Wood County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Wood 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)
• TXWood  Wood Co., TX History & Genealogy     (Source: Yahoo! Groups)
• Wood County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Wood County, TX Club      (Source: GenCircles)

• TX-WOOD-CEM-L Cemeteries in Wood County, Texas

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

• TXWOOD-L Wood County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (13)

Military Records and Histories

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

• 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  Wood County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Robertson through Wood Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Wood County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Historical Quitman Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Historical Winnsboro Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Wood County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Wood County Democrat  Jan 4, 1916 - Dec 29, 2004     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Wood County Democrat  Quitman, Texas     (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Mineola, Texas Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Quitman, Texas Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Mineola, Texas Postcards & Old Photos      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Wood County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)

School Records and Histories

• Alba School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Hawkins School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Hawkins, TX High School Class of 1958      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)
• Pleasant Grove School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Quitman School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Quitman, TX High School Class of 1957      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)
• Quitman, TX High School Class of 1958      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)
• Quitman, TX High School Class of 1959      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Wood County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• Elizabeth Denton English Chapter  Mineola     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Wood County Genealogical Society 
• Wood County, Texas Genealogical Society Bulletin 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (26)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Wood County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Mineola Depot 
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Wood County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Winnsboro Depot 
• Wood County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Wood 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  Wood County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Wood County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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