GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH in TEXAS by Lloyd De Witt Bockstruck, A.B
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GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN TEXAS by Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck, A.B. (cum 1aude), M.A., M.S., F.N.G.S. I. MILITARY a. Texas and the American Revolution. b. Robert H. Thonhoff, The Texas Connection with the American Revolution. c. -------, The Vital Contribution of Spain in the Winning of the American Revolution. d. Clovis H. Brakebill, American Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Texas. e. Mary 5. Fay, War of 1812 Veterans in Texas. f. Granville M. Hough, Spain's Texas Patriots in Its War with England, 1779- 1783 during the American Revolution. g. Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas. Vol. I 1835-1837. h. Texas Ranger Service Records: Loyalty Rangers 1 reel; Regular Rangers 2 reels; Special Rangers 7 reels. Microfilm. War of Texas Independence a. Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution. b. Sam Houston Dixon, The Heroes of San Jacinto. c. Republic of Texas Pension Application Abstracts. Republic of Texas Pension Applications. Microfilm. d. Thomas L. Miller, Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas 1835-1888. e. The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors. f. Linda Ericson Deveraux, The Texas Navy, Freedom Fighters for the Republic of Texas. g. Frances T. Ingmire, Texas Rangers 1830-1846. h. -------, The Texas Frontiersman, 1839-1860. i. -------, The Texas Ranger Service Records 1847-1900. j. Defenders of the Republic of Texas, Texas Army, Muster Rolls, Receipt Rolls, and Other Rolls, 1836-1841. k. Gifford White, They Also Served, Texas Service Records from Headright Certificates. l. Kathryn H. Davis, East Texas Militiamen 1838-1839. m. Alabamians in the Texas War with Mexico, 1836. Microfilm, 2 rolls. n. James L. Morgan, Arkansas Volunteers· of 1836-'37: History and Roster of the First and Second Mounted Gunmen and a Roster of Captain Jesse Bean's Company of Mounted Rangers, United States Army 1832-1833. Mexican War a. Charles D. Spurlin, Texas Veterans in the Mexican War, Muster Rolls of the Texas Military Units. b. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served during the Mexican War in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 19 rolls. e. Virgil D. White, Index to Mexican War Pension Files. e. Joe & Carolyn Ericson, From the Rio Grande to the Halls of Montezuma. Civil War a. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 2 rolls~ b. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldieks Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 13 rolls. c. Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 41 rolls. d. Texas Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865. 2 vols. [116,000] e. The Confederate Muster Roll Card Index, Microfilm, 11 rolls. f. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, Microfilm, 445 rolls. g. Virgil D. White, Index to Texas CSA Pension Files. h. John M. Kinney, Index to Applications for Texas Confederate Pensions. i. Texas Confederate Pension Files. Microfilm, 699 rolls. j. Thomas Lloyd Miller, Texas Confederate Script Grantees C.S.A. k. Mamie Yeary, Reminiscences of the Boy in Gray. l. Sidney Smith Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray. m. Linda Mearse, Confederate Indigent Families Lists of Texas 1863-1865. n. Bryan Lee Dilts, 1890 Texas Census: Index of Civil War Veterans and Their Widows. o. List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1887, vol. V, pp. 267-91. p. Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas. q. L. L. Knightl Their Last Full Measure: Texas Confederate Casualty Lists 1861-1865. 3 vols. r. General Index to Pension Fi1es, 1816-1935. Microfilm, 535 rolls. s. Kathy Wells, Union Veterans of the Civil War Buried in the State of Texas. t. Roster of Union Soldiers 1861-1865: Missouri ... Texas u. Jerry D. Thompson, Mexican Texans in the Union Army. v. Czechs in Grey and Blue Too! w. Jerry D. Thompson, Vaqueros in Blue and Gray. x. James A. Mundie et al., Texas Burial Sites of Civil Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial and Field. y. Roster of the Confederate Home, Austin, Texas. Microfilm, 1 roll. z. Kathryn H. Davis, Texas Confederate Home Roster with Added Data from Confederate Home Ledgers. aa. L. L. Kight, Their Last Full Measure: Texas Confederate Casualty Lists. bb. Carolyn M. Bartels, Texas Confederate Deaths in Union Hospitals and Prisons. The World Wars a. History of Texas World War Heroes. b. Texas Selective System Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918. Microfilm, 183 rolls. c. History of the Second World War, a Memorial, a Remembrance, an Appreciation. d. State Summary of War Casualties [Texas] U.S. Navy 1946. e. Texas Veterans of Czech Ancestry. f. Ashley K. Nuckols, Deaths American Expeditionary Force W.W. I 1917, 1918: Texas. Indian Campaigns a. Robert W. Stephens, Texas Ranger Indian War Pensions. b. Donald A. Swanson, Enlistment Record of Indian Scouts in One of the Scout Detachments at Fort Clark, Texas. II. CENSUS a. Marion Day Mullins, The First Census of Texas 1829-1836. b. Residents of Texas 1782-1836. c. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1820-29 Census Index. d. Gifford White, 1830 Citizens of Texas. e. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1830-39 Census Index. f. Gifford White, 1840 Citizens of Texas. g. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas Census Records 1841-1849. h. Marion Day Mullins, Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846. i. Beth Dorman, Taxpayers of the Republic of Texas Covering 30 Counties and the District of Panela. j. Index to Texas Census Records 1850-1860, Microfilm, 11 rolls. k. Vera C. Carpenter, The State of Texas Federal Population Schedules, 7th Census of the U.S., 1850. 1. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1850 Census Index. m. -------, Texas 1850 Slave Schedule. n. Heritage Quest, Texas 1850 census Index, A-Z. n. Gifford White, Texas Scholastics, 1854-1855: A State Census of School Children. o. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1860 Census Index. p. Texas 1860 Census Index. q. Ronald Vern Jackson, Texas 1870 Census Index. r. -------, Texas 1880 Federal Census Index. s. Helen Marsh, Tennesseans in Texas. t. Ronald Vern Jackson, Mortality Schedule Texas 1850. u. -------, Mortality Schedule Texas 1860. v. -------, Mortality Schedule Texas 1870. w. Frances Woods, 1850 Mortality Schedules of Texas. x. -------, 1860 Mortality Schedules of Texas. y. The 1867 Voter Registration Lists of Texas, Microfilm, 12 rolls. [CD index] z. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, Texas, 1865-1866. 2 rolls. III. NEWSPAPERS a. Index to Early Texas Newspapers, Microfilm, 43 rolls. b. Michael Kelsey, Genealogical Abstracts from Central Texas Newspapers [1885-1899]. c. -------, Miscellaneous Texas Newspaper Abstracts [1840-1882]. d. -------, Genealogical Abstracts from the Austin, Texas State Gazette [1849-1859]. e. Helen M. Lu, Texas Methodist Newspaper Abstracts, 17 Apr. 1850-17 Sept. 1881. f. ------- Texas Baptist Newspaper Abstracts, 7 Mar. 1855-21 Feb. 1884. g. -------, Texas Presbyterian Newspaper Abstracts 3 Nov. 1846-14 Aug. 1854, 25 Feb. 1876--15 Feb. 1875. h. -------, Southwestern Presbyterian Newspaper Abstracts 25 Feb. 1869- 8 Feb. 1877. e. Texas Newspapers 1813-1893, A Union List of Newspapers f. Newspapers in Microform United States 1948-1972, 1973-1977, 1978, 1979. g. Helen S. Swenson, Early Texas News 1831-1858, Abstracts from Early Texas Newspapers. h. Linda Nicklas, Abstracts of Early East Texas Newspapers, 1839-1856. i. Kevin Ladd, Gone to Texas: Genealogical Abstracts from The Telegraph and Texas Register, 1835-1841. IV. VITAL STATISTICS a. Bennett L. Smith, Marriage by Bond in Colonial Texas. b. Norma R. Grammar, Marriage Records in Early Texas, 1824-46. c. Helen S. Swenson, 8800 Texas Marriages 1824-1850. d. Alice D. Gracy, Early Texas Birth Records 1838-1878. e. Guide to Public Vital Statistics Records in Texas. f. Index to Texas Deaths, 1903-1973, Microfilm. Index to Texas Deaths, 1964-2001, Microfiche. Index to Texas Marriages, 1968-2001, Microfiche. Index to Texas Divorces, 1966-2001, Microfiche. g. The Index to Probate Birth Records; Index to Probate Birth Records 1945 & Prior; Index Birth Records 1920, Microfilm. h. The Index to Texas Births, 1903-1973, Microfilm, SO rolls. i. Sharry Crofford-Gould, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions: A Source Index. j. Margaret A. P. Thetford, Bishop Garret's Journal: Texas 1875-1890. k. Kim Parsons, A Reference to Texas Cemetery Records. l. Texas Marriages, Early to 1850. [17,500 entries] m. Jim C. Ames, West Texas Marriages, Records of Marriages from Some West Texas Counties. n. S. Kae Partin, Texas Departed: An Index of the 1890 Mortality Schedule of Texas. 2 vols. in 4. o. Raul J. Guerra, Index to the Marriage Investigations of the Diocese of Guadalajara: Provinces of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Nuevo Santander, Texas 1653-1779. 2 vols. p. Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Records, 1903-1976. Microfilm, 1,384 rolls. q. Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics, Texas Birth Records, 1903-1909, 1926- 1929. Microfilm, 190 rolls. V. GUIDES a. Texas County Records, A Guide to the Holdings of the Local Records Division of the Texas State Library of County Records on Microfilm. b. Livingston's Directory of Texas Historical and Genealogical Organizations. c. John H. Jenkins, Cracker Barrel Chronicles, a Bibliography of Texas Town and County Histories. d. Tom Munnerlyn, Texas Local History, a Source Book for Available Town and County Histories. e. The Texas History Collection of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library. f. The Catalog of the Texas Collection in the Barker Texas History Center the University of Texas at Austin. g. Henry P. Beer, Spanish and Mexican Records of the American Southwest, a Bibliographical Guide to Archive Sources. h. A Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Texas State Archives. i. Chester V. Kielman, The University of Texas Archives: A Guide to the Historical Manuscripts in the University of Texas Library.