While not all documents and records you might need for your family history research can be found online, quite a bit has been added recently to some popular online databases. Check them out: Ancestry.com [$] Texas, Passenger Lists, 1893-1963 – Updated Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910 – Updated FamilySearch.org Texas Collections [Free] Must register for free in … Read more
Texas Genealogy Day Live in or around San Antonio and want to get started on or improve your family history research skills? Spend Saturday, August 30th, on San Antonio’s famous Riverwalk at the 2014 Federation of Genealogical Societies’ national conference Gone to Texas and learn how to research your family history with a special one-day … Read more
The Federation of Genealogical Societies 2014 Conference Registration is open! The Texas State Genealogical Society is proud to be local co-host with the San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society. The following is the full press release from FGS: FGS 2014 Conference Registration is Open “Gone to Texas” – A Conference for the Nation’s Genealogists March … Read more
The Texas General Land Office and Texas State Genealogical Society are partnering together to bring Texas genealogists the very first “Genealogypalooza” on Saturday, May 17, 2014, at the GLO Headquarters in the Stephen F. Austin Building in Austin. The goal of the “Genealogypalooza” is to bring attention to a broad range of Texas genealogical resources in an open, fun, … Read more
This afternoon’s monthly geography-based #GenChat is about the Great American Desert. Now, geographically-speaking, this could mean slightly different parts of the panhandle region of Texas, or it could mean a different part of the state. Originally, in the 19th century, according to Wikipedia, the term referred to the western part of the Great Plains which … Read more