Karnes County, Texas:
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Projects

• Helena Texas  Texas history site including ghost activities and artifacts found
• Karnes County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Karnes County TXGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Atascosa County, TX  to the west
• Bee County, TX  to the south
• De Witt County, TX  to the east
• Goliad County, TX  to the southeast
• Gonzales County, TX  to the northeast
• Live Oak County, TX  to the southwest
• Wilson County, TX  to the northwest

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

• Karnes Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Karnes County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Karnes County Texas      (Source: Cemeteries of Texas)
• Karnes County  Texas Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Karnes County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Karnes County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Karnes County Cemetery Photographs      (Source: USGenWeb Texas Archives)
• Karnes County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Karnes County Texas Cemeteries      (Source: HistoricTexas.net)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (26)

Ethnic

• Silesian Texans 

History

• Karnes County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Karnes County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Karnes County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Karnes County Texas History  Gunfights, family feuds, longhorn cattle on the Chisholm Trail
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships (47)

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

  • Karnes City, TX Peter Weir & Co Gin Fire, Dec 1903      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Karnes County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg and Knox County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Kernes, TX Storm and Fire, May 1909      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Various Towns, TX Tornados Cause Death And Damage, May 1930      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Karnes County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Karnes County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Karnes County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXKARNES-L Karnes County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (11)

Military Records and Histories

• Karnes County, Texas Military Data      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Karnes County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Jack, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Lampasas Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Karnes County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Confederate Indigent Families Index  Jefferson through Refugio Counties

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Karnes County     (Source: The Library of Congress)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Finch Funeral Chapels  Nixon, Stockdale, La Vernia, Yorktown and Runge, Texas

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Karnes County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Karnes County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)
• Old Karnes County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

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

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (12)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Karnes County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Karnes County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Karnes County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Karnes County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Karnes 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  Karnes County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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