Hill County, Texas:
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Projects

• Hill County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Hill County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Bosque County, TX  to the west
• Ellis County, TX  to the northeast
• Johnson County, TX  to the north
• Limestone County, TX  to the southeast
• McLennan County, TX  to the south
• Navarro County, TX  to the east

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Blum GEDCOM Index 
• Covington GEDCOM Index 
• Hill Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Hill County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Hill County GEDCOM Index 
• Hillsboro GEDCOM Index 
• A memorial and biographical history of Johnson and Hill counties, Texas  1892     (Source: Internet Archive)

Cemeteries (15)

Census Records and Indexes (26)

History

• Hill County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Hill County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Hill County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• A memorial and biographical history of Johnson and Hill counties, Texas  1892     (Source: Internet Archive)
• National Register of Historic Places 
• Richland County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (45)

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events (19)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Harold B. Simpson History Complex Research Center 
• Hill County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Hill County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Hill County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Hill County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Hill County, TX Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• TX-MERCERCOL-L For anyone with a genealogical interest in Mercer's Colony in Texas. Mercer's Colony was secured by Charles Mercer, a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia, as a land grant from the Republic of Texas in 1844 and covered all or part of the present Texas counties of Hunt, Rains, Rockwall, Kaufman, Van Zandt, Henderson, Navarro, Hill, McLennan, Johnston, Ellis and Dallas. Mercer's colonizing association was called the "Texas Association" but is more commonly referred to as Mercer's Colony.

  • TX-MERCERCOL-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • TX-MERCERCOL-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • TX-MERCERCOL-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• TXHILL-L Hill County genealogy

  • TXHILL-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • TXHILL-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • TXHILL-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (14)

Military Records and Histories

• Graham, Fort, TX  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Hill County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Gillespie, Goliad, Gonzales, Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hardin, Harrison, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Hill County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Harris through Jasper Counties

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Hill County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Hill County, Texas  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Hill County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Hill County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Hill County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Hill County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Hill County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Historical Whitney Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• The Lakelander  Sep 28, 2005 - Jun 3, 2009     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Lakelander  Whitney, Texas     (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Hill County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Hill County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• Hill County Poorhouse Pictures      (Source: The Poorhouse Story)

School Records and Histories

• Covington School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Hillsboro School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Hillsboro, TX High School Class of 1913      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)
• Whitney School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Whitney, TX High School Teachers 1913-14      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Hill County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• Central Texas Genealogical Society 
• Hill County Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (71)

Tax Lists

• Texas County Tax Rolls  1846-1910     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Hill County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Hill County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Hill County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Hillsboro Depot 
• Itasca Depot 
• Malone Depot 
• Patents  Hill County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Hill County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Texas Birth Certificates      (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Texas Death Certificates      (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Hill County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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