Cyndi's List - United States - Texas - Libraries, Archives & Museums

Texas Prison Museum

Huntsville.
Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum

Waco.
- Researching Texas Rangers
  - Texas Rangers Killed or Died While on Duty
Texas Seaport Museum

Located in the historic port of Galveston, the Texas Seaport Museum explores Texas' history of seaborne commerce and immigration.
- Galveston Immigration Database
  
  Computerized database of 130,000 passengers who disembarked in Galveston from the period 1846-1948. Searchable at the Museum itself or by mail for a fee.
  - Accessing the Immigration Database
  - Frequently Asked Questions
Texas State Library & Archives Commission

Austin, Texas. Preserves the records of government for public scrutiny & secures and makes accessible historically significant records & other valuable resources.
- Archives and Manuscripts
- County Records Available on Microfilm - Texas State Library
  
  List of microfilmed holdings for counties in Texas, available at various libraries throughout the state.
- Genealogy Resources
- Reference/Documents Collection
- Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center
  
  The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center is a component of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission's (TSLAC) Archives and Information Services Division (ARIS) and serves as the official regional historical resource depository for the 10 southeast Texas counties of Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler.
Texas Tech University - Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

Lubbock, Texas
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Historical Collection

At the University of Texas - Pan American Library. Holds materials dealing with the geographic area from Laredo to Corpus Christi south to Brownsville, Texas and the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Le
The University of Texas-Pan American Library
- Lower Rio Grande Valley Collection
  
  Specializes in materials for southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.
United Methodist Church - Annual Conference Commissions on Archives and History

List of annual conference archive contacts for the state. For local Methodist church records, your best resource is the annual conference archives. The boundaries of the annual conference do not necessarily coincide with state boundaries, and some states may have several conferences within their borders.
University of Texas Libraries Online
- Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
  
  Nearly 900,000 books, periodicals, & pamphlets, 2,500 linear feet of manuscripts, 19,000 maps, 21,000 microforms, 11,500 broadsides, 93,500 photographs, & 38,000 other items from & about Latin America, & on materials relating to Latinos in the US. Latin America is here defined to include Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean island nations, South America, & areas of the US during the period they were a part of the Spanish Empire or Mexico.
  - Mexican Archives at the Benson Latin American Collection
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Vintage Aggieland - A Virtual Museum of Texas A&M Memorabilia
WorldCat: The World's Largest Library Catalog

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for books, music CDs, videos, and many new kinds of digital content such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public. Special features include the ability for you to create lists of library items and build biblilographies.
- Keywords: Texas Genealogy

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