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FAMILY HISTORY CENTERS

IN HOUSTON AREA

Alvin 2700 Lehi Lane, Alvin TX 77511
PHONE: 208-585-3033
HOURS: Tue: 6-8; Wed: 10-1; Sat. 7-10

Bay City 2813 16th Street, Bay City, TX 77414
PHONE: 409-245-3152 (hall)
HOURS: Tue: 10-2; Wed: 5-8; Thu: 12-4; Fri: 10-3; Sat. 10-2

Baytown 1010 Birdsong Dr., Baytown, TX 77521
PHONE: 281-428-2204
HOURS: Tue: 10-8; Wed: 10-8, 6-8; Thu: 10-6

Bryan (College Station) 2500 Barak Lane, Bryan, TX 77802
PHONE: 409-846-3516 (hall)
HOURS: Tue: 10-5, 7-9:30; Wed: 7-9:30; Thu: 10-5, 7-9:30

Clear Lake 1802 Gunwale, Houston, TX 77062
PHONE: 281-488-4406
HOURS: Tue, Wed & Thu: 11-8; Sat: 10-1

Conroe 1516 Wilson Road Conroe, TX 77304
PHONE: 409-756-4004
HOURS: Tue: 3-9; Wed: 6-9; Fri: 3-8; Sat: 10-2

Friendswood 505 Deseret, Friendswood, TX 77546
PHONE: 281-996-9346
HOURS: Tue - Wed - Thu: 10-9; Fri - Sat: 9-5

Pasadena 4202 Yellowstone, Pasadena, TX 77504
PHONE: 281-991-8479
HOURS: Tue - Wed - Thu: 10-8

Houston (North) 16331 Hafer Rd, Houston, TX 77090
PHONE: 281-893-5381
HOURS: Tue - Wed - Thu: 10-9; Fri & Sat: 10-2

Houston (West) 1101 Bering Drive, Houston, TX 77057
PHONE: 713-785-2105
HOURS: Tue: 10-2, 6-9; Wed: 2-9; Thu: 10-2, 6-9; 1st & 3rd Sat: 10-2

Houston (West) 4703 Shadowdale Drive, Houston, TX 77043
PHONE: (unknown)
HOURS: Wed: 6-9

Kingwood 4021 Deerbrook Dr., Kingwood, TX 77339
PHONE: 281-360-1352
HOURS: Tue - Wed - Thu: 9:30-4:30, 6:30-9; 2nd Sat: 10-2

Katy 1603 Norwalk, Katy, TX 77493
PHONE: 281-578-8338
HOURS: Tue - Wed - Thu: 10-2, 6-9; Sat: 10-2

Katy 1828 Drexel, Katy, TX 77493
PHONE: 281-391-7689
HOURS: Tue: 9-1, 6-9, Wed & Thu: 6-9

N. Houston 14404 Kemrock, Houston, TX 77015
PHONE: 281-458-1526
HOURS: Tue: 7-9; Wed: 9-9; Thu: 7-9

Lake Jackson 502 Southern Oaks Dr, Lake Jackson, TX 77566
PHONE: 409-297-8454
HOURS: Mon: 9-12; Tue - Wed - Thu: 9-12, 6:30-9; Sat: 12-4

League City 4655 S. Shore Harbor, League City, TX 77573
PHONE: (unknown)
HOURS: Tue - Wed: 7-9; Fri: 10-12

Spring/Cypress 16535 Kleinwood, Spring, TX 77379
PHONE: 281-251-5931
HOURS: Tue - Wed - Thu: 11-3 & 6-9; Fri: 11-3; Sat: 9-1

Sugar Land 602 Eldridge Road, Sugar Land, TX 77478
PHONE: 281-240-1524
HOURS: Tue: 9-9; Wed: 10-9; Thu: 6-9; Sat: 9-1

Waller 2209 Mayer/Waller Rd., Waller, TX 77484
PHONE: 409/372-3711 (hall)
HOURS: Tue: 9-12, Wed: 6-9; Sun: 12-2, 4-6

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LIBRAIRIES, MUSEUMS AND OTHER RESEARCH FACILITIES IN HOUSTON AND TEXAS

Clayton Library, Center for Genealogical Research
5300 Caroline, Houston, Texas 77004-6896
713-284-1999
Collection: Genealogy & family history.

GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
1001 Golfview, Richmond, Texas 77469-5141
281-342-4455
Special Collections: Texana; Genealogy; American History.

HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
500 McKinney, Houston, Texas 77002
713-247-2222
Special Collections: Archives & manuscripts Department - photography & negatives related to Houston including manuscript, Bibles, Civil War, Salvation Army, Posters, Architectural & Milsap Collections; Early printing & illuminated Manuscript; Sheet Music; Texana; Early Houston & Texas Maps, Oral History; US & State Document Depository. Regional Historical Records, Texas State Depository Texas and Local History Collection - Texas Room.

LA PORTE PUBLIC LIBRARY
526 San Jacinto
La Porte, TX 77571.
281-471-4022

MONTGOMERY COUNTY LIBRARY
104 Interstate Hwy. 45 North (P.O. Box 579), Conroe, Texas 77301
409-788-8363
Special Collections: Texana, Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmcghs/index.htm

ROSENBERG LIBRARY
2310 Sealy Avenue, Galveston, Texas 77550-2296
409-763-8854
Special Collections: Maritime History; Texas History - books, film manuscripts,
photography; Oral History; US & State Document Depository.

HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, Moody Memorial Library
7502 Fondren, Houston, Texas 77074
Special Collections: Civil War (Confederate Collection); History; History and Literature.

RICE UNIVERSITY, Fondren Library
6100 S. Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
713-285-5113
Special Collections: Austrian History; Civil War Collection; 19th & 20 Century Texas;
Maps; US & State Document Depository

TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY Library
3201 Wheeler, Houston, Texas 77004
Special Collections: Heartman Negro Collection; Barbara Jordan Archives; State
Document Depository.

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, M. D. Anderson Memorial Library
4800 Calhoun Blvd., Houston, Texas 77004
Special Collections: American History; Texas gubernatorial papers; City of Houston;
Texana & Western Americana; US and State Document Depository.
Law Library: - Texas Supreme Court Briefs, Congressional Publications.

TEXAS STATE ARCHIVES
1201 Brazos Street, P. O. Box 12927, Austin, TX 78711-2927
512-463-5480
Special Collections: Texas Confederate military records & pensions, Republic of Texas records, Texas Ranger records, Brigade papers(Texas militia records), Supreme Court records, Confederate Home records.

ONLINE-INDEX TO AUDITED REPUBLIC CLAIMS

TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
1201 Brazos Street, P. O. Box 12927, Austin, Texas 78711-2927
512-463-5478
Special Collections: Microfilm - censuses, head or poll taxes, tax rolls, voter registers, 1867-1869, naturalization records, port of Galveston records, archives of Nuevo Leon, Nacogdoches Archives; birth and death indexes 1903-1976 and delayed birth indexes; books and periodicals, vertical file. Sec. of State Record Books which contain many of the colonization & ship lists for persons arriving to settle in the Castro Colony, the Mercer Colony, the Peters Colony, the Fisher-Miller Colony and the German Immigration Co. The Record Books of the Chief executive [1835-1938] contain appointments, commissions, proclamations, quarantine orders, reward offers, extradition requests, pardons, military dispositions, etc.

TEXAS GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Archives and Record Division
837 Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 N. Congress, Austin, Texas 78701
512-463-5001
Special Collections: Spanish collection, Mexican grants, Republic and State Settlers' grants, Texas military grants and lists, scrip and sales, land patents, colony lists, Republic vouchers, German colonization contracts, county maps, early GLO correspondence.

BARKER HISTORY CENTER
Sid Richardson Hall, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712
512-471-5961
Special Collections: Texas newspapers, Natchez Trace Papers, Collections of the Republic, of the State, and during the Civil War, etc.

TEXAS BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS
1100 W. 49th St., Austin, Texas 78756
512-458-7371
Special Collections: Birth and death certificates from 1903-present, marriage records 1966-present, divorce records 1968-present.

TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
P. O. Box 12276
Austin, TX. 78711-2276
512-463-6100

AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER
810 Guadalupe St., Austin,Texas 78701
512-499-7480
Special Collections: Travis County history and surrounding Counties.

DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS LIBRARY AT THE ALAMO
P. O. Box 1401, San Antonio, Texas 78295-1401
210-225-1071
Special Collections: Books, documents, maps, photographs, periodicals, early newspapers, clippings, and family papers during the Republic years.

HILL COLLEGE HISTORY COMPLEX
P.O. Box 619, Hillsboro, Texas 76645
Special Collections: Confederate militia histories; capsule histories of all Confederate Regiments from TX, LA, AR, MO, and MS; microfilm records of all service records for Hood's Brigade, TX Newspapers published during the Civil War, post returns of U.S. forts in Texas [1848-1861], and an informational file on TX Confederate soldiers; original letters, documents, maps and photographs.

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
Carroll Library Building , P. O. Box 6396, Waco, Texas 76706
Special Collections: 80,000 volumes relating to life in Texas, periodicals, subject files, Texas State Documents, maps and charts, theses and dissertations, telephone and city directories, business gazetteers, historical manuscripts, photos, and oral memoirs.
Texas Collection (Baylor University, P. O. Box 7142, Waco, TX 76798-7142): covers county records for Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton, Hill, Lampasas, Limestone, McLennan & Williamson counties.

TEXAS RANGER HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
P. O. Box 2570
Waco, TX 76702-2570

SAM HOUSTON REGIONAL LIBRARY & RESEARCH CENTER
F.M. 1001, P.O. Box 986, Liberty, TX 77575-0310
409-336-8821
Special Collections: Historical exhibits including Sam Houston artifacts, archival collections include the Bob Davis collection of Capt. Wm. Logan papers; original assessments & renditions prior to 1910 for the10 counties [San Jacinto, Polk, Tyler, Jasper, Newton, Hardin, Liberty, Orange, Jefferson, Chambers]; the O'Brien-Reid collection from Tyler County; 4 file cabinets of the "Hardin Papers" dating back to 1826; old newspaper files, etc.

WALLISVILLE HERITAGE PARK
P.O. Box 16, Wallisville, TX 77597
409-389-2252
Special Collections: 2,000 books on Southern, Atlantic and New England States. Vertical files on 600 area families and 500 local history topics. Some 10,000 copy negatives of local individuals, families, buildings, etc. Some 20,000 negatives from a Crystal Studio in Liberty. Negatives and prints from "The Liberty Gazette" newspaper. Several archival collections dealing with Spanish Presidio & Mission at Wallisville (1756-1771) and Fort Anahuac (estb. 1830). Other archival collections dealing with Chambers County history and families. Oral histories of about 100 elderly residents.

CATHOLIC ARCHIVES OF TEXAS 1600 N. Congress Avenue (P. O. Box 13124, Capitol Stn.), Austin, Texas 78711
[by appointment only, 512-476-6296]
Special Collections: Spanish and Mexican documents 1519-1880, German settlements, material on priests, parishes, etc.

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON
1700 San Jacinto, Houston, TX 77002
713-659-5461

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
P. O. Box 19497, Arlington, Texas 76019-0497
817-273-3393
Special Collections Division: Contains numerous Collin County records, the McKinney family papers 1766-1902; the bulk of the collection covers the years 1830-1850 & pertains to Collin McKinney. A copy of the Civil War diary of L. H. Graves, of Capt. J. W. Throckmorton's Co. K, 6th TX Cavalry. Jenkins Garrett Library: Mexican War Collection 1846-48; Robertson Colony papers; Cartographic History Library; Meso-Am. History Collection; TX Photographic History Collection; Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Ft. Worth and other N. TX towns and cities; a TX Newspaper Name Index, primarily for the 19th century, listed alphabetically providing the newspaper title, date, and brief citation. [Microfilm; does not circulate]

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Lubbock, TX 79409
Special Collections: 1910 Pioneer Collection which contains oral histories of west Texas pioneers and their ancestors.

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY
Ralph W. Steen Library, Nacogdoches, Texas
Special Collections Department: Contains material relating to East Texas - personal papers, manuscripts, documents, maps, photographs and books.

SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Newton Gresham Library, Huntsville, Texas
Special Collections: State depository for County Records of Anderson, Freestone, Grimes, Houston, Leon, Montgomery, Trinity and Walker Counties, county histories, etc.

TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY
Box T2000, Tarleton Station, Stephenville, TX 76402-2000
Special Collections: County records of Brown and Erath counties, county histories, etc. of this area.

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, COMMERCE
University Archives
Commerce, TX 75428-2810
Special Collections: County records for Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Hopkins, Hunt, Marion, Morris, Titus, Van Zandt & Wood counties. Also, county histories of this area.

THE SOPHIENBURG ARCHIVES
200 N. Seguin St., New Braunfels, TX 78130. Open M-F, 10-4 p.m.
210-629-1900
Special Collection: Contains the German language newspaper, New Braunfels Zeitung, from 1852-1957 and the Herald, the negatives of the Seidel Photograph Collection taken from 1929-1970, family collections; books containing Comal County cemeteries and cemetery sexton's records from the late 1800's; the Solms- Braunfels Archive and Robinson's Bremer Family History. Admission $2.50.

TEXAS BAPTIST HISTORICAL COLLECTION
P. O. Box 22000-2E
Ft. Worth, TX 76122
Special Collection: TX Baptist obituaries

BRAZORIA COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM
401 E. Cedar Street, Angleton, Texas
409-849-5711, ext. 1203
Special Collection: The Old 300 database includes a listing of settelers who had received land grants in Austin's Colony by the start of the war for independance from Mexico.

JACKSON COUNTY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Edna, Texas
Special Collection: Histories, newspapers, with museum next door.

WHARTON COUNTY LIBRARY
1017 Alabama Road, Wharton, TX 77488
Special Collection: Local and family histories, Wharton County Cemetery book

WHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE
911 E. Boling Highway, Wharton, TX 77488-3252
409-532-6422
Special Collections: County histories, biographies of Texians, J. M. Hodges Learning Center has some census records

VICTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY
Victoria, Texas
Special Collection: Censuses, index to TX death and birth records, newspapers, ship passenger lists, tax records for Victoria, city directories for Victoria.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Special Collection: Local "camps" filled out a descriptive list which included is age, place of birth, & military service which had to have corroboration if no official proof. Many of these original papers have been deposited in libraries: i.e., The Ft. Worth Public Library has those of the Ft. Worth Camp, Robert E. Lee. In 1894 camp cities were: Abilene, Alvarado, Alvin, Alvord, Archer City, Athens, Atlanta, Aurora, Austin, Beaumont, Belton, Big Springs, Bonham, Brazoria, Breckinridge, Brenham, Brownwood, Bryan, Buffalo Gap, Caldwell, Calvert, Cameron, Campbell, Carthage, Chico, Childress, Cisco, Cleburne, Colorado, Columbus, Coleman, Denton, etc. The Confederate Veteran 1893-1930. The original rolls are located in Jackson Barracks Library, New Orleans, Louisiana.

TEXAS MASONIC RECORDS
Grand Secretary of Texas,
P. O. Box 446,
Waco, Texas 76703

TEXAS SEAPORT MUSEUM
Pier 21, Harborside Drive
2016 Strand
Galveston, TX 77550