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What's New In Montgomery County Texas?

• Texas Offers Original Birth Certificates for Adult Adoptees
• Montgomery County Cemeteries Recognized By HTC
• Mittie J Campbell, County Historical Marker
• DGS Heritage Preservation Award

Explore Free Resources from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) invites Texans to dig deeper into their family history with a variety of free resources.

TSLAC's Genealogy Resources website ( www.tsl.texas.gov/familyhistory ) was recently updated and provides a useful summary of available library and archives materials from its extensive collections that may be of interest to family history researchers.

Library Collections
Library resources include publications, indexes, databases and other types of information that genealogists find useful when tracing their family trees. Search the TSLAC library catalog online for published family and county histories, state and federal government reports, microfilm and other cataloged titles. Also available in TSLAC's Reference Reading Room in Austin without an appointment (and some through Interlibrary Loan) are city directories, county records, county tax rolls, newspaper collections, vital statistics indexes and more.

Archival Collections
Did your ancestor do business or interact with the governments of the Republic of Texas or the State of Texas in any way? TSLAC's archival collections may be of use. Collections of interest to family historians include Republic of Texas passports, Republic claims, Adjutant General service records, Confederate pension applications and indigent families lists, fire insurance maps, clemency records, convict record ledgers and indexes, election registers, voter registration lists, and more. Digitized records may also be available online through Ancestry.com Texas ; free access to TSLAC records that have been digitized by Ancestry is available to Texas residents with the creation of a free Ancestry account. Many of these records are also available in the Texas Digital Archive without a subscription or login.

Research Guides by Topic

TSLAC has compiled multiple online guides for researchers interested in specific topics, including:

African American Genealogy  

American Indian Genealogy  

Business and Company Research  

Education Records and Research Resources

Historical Elections Research

Mexican American Genealogy Research

Land and Property History Research

What's New at the Montgomery County Memorial Library?