Texas Vital Records
Texas Vital Records -- Including Texas births, Texas deaths, Texas marriages, cemetery, census, and more records.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree Texas Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put TX in the birth place field | 0ver 230,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. |
| RootsWeb Texas Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Texas in the birth place field | 0ver 1,100,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information. |
| RootsWeb Texas Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Texas in the marriage place field | 0ver 760,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information. |
| RootsWeb Texas Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Texas in the death place field | 0ver 3,900,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Texas | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put TX in the Keyword Search | 0ver 40,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Texas Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put TX in the death place field | 0ver 250,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. |
Census Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| The USGenWeb Census Project | www.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find TX and put in the word "census" | 583 links with varying numbers of records per each | 1790-1920 | Free | Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
| Census Online, Texas, 628 links | http://www.census-online
.com/links/TX/All.html | 1,000s | 1840-1900 | Free | Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname search |
| The Residents of Texas, 1782-1836 | www.rootsweb.com
/~txgenweb/restx.htm | 1,000s | 1782-1836 | Free | Not all of the work is on there, and it takes a bit of searching to find what you need, but the important thing is that it is vital census information put on the web for free. |
Cemetery Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Texas Inscription Cemetery Search | www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/tx-cem.htm | 4247 documents with various numbers of results per each | varies | Free | Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
| East Texas Cemeteries | freepages.genealogy.rootsweb
.com/~gonetotexas/cemetery.html | over 7,000 records | varies | Free | Great if you know that your ancestors were buried in East Texas |
| Cemetery Transcription Library | www.interment.net
/data/search.htm | 100s | varies | Free | What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. |
| Search the Virtual Cemetery | www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html | 100s | varies | Free | A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone. |
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