Victoria County, Texas:
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Projects

• Victoria County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Victoria County, Texas  Sponsored by Victoria County Genealogical Society     (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Calhoun County, TX  to the southeast
• De Witt County, TX  to the northwest
• Goliad County, TX  to the west
• Jackson County, TX  to the northeast
• Lavaca County, TX  to the north
• Refugio County, TX  to the south

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

• Victoria Co, Texas, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Victoria County Biographies Project      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Victoria County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (35)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Victoria County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Ethnic

• Silesian Texans 

History

• National Register of Historic Places 
• Victoria County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Victoria County      (Source: The Handbook of Texas Online)
• Victoria County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

• Histories of specific towns and townships (22)

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

  • Val Verde, Van Zandt and Victoria County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Victoria County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Victoria, Texas Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Victoria, TX Abandoned Hotel Collapses, July 1978      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Victoria, TX Cabinet Shop Fire, Feb 1910      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Memorial Square Historical Park  Victoria, Texas
• Museum of the Coastal Bend 
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Victoria County, Texas     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Victoria County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Victoria County Records on Microfilm      (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• Victoria Regional Museum 

Lookups

• Victoria County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• TXVICTOR-L Victoria County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Victoria County, Texas     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll  Smith, Somervell, Stephens, Taylor, Titus, Tom Green, Trinity, Upshur, Uvalde, Van Zandt, Victoria Counties     (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Victoria County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • 6th Texas Infantry  Company B, Lone Star Rifles     (Source: Genealogy Buff)
  • 6th Texas Infantry  Company H     (Source: Genealogy Buff)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Victoria County - Barred and Disallowed Claims     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records (11)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Victoria Advocate 
• The Victoria Advocate      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Victoria Advocate  Victoria, TX     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Victoria, Texas Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historical Postcards of Victoria County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• The Portal to Texas History  Victoria County
• Texas--Victoria County.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Victoria County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Victoria County Courthouse      (Source: The Texas Courthouse)

School Records and Histories (38)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Victoria County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Victoria County     (Source: Family History Library)
• Victoria County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)

Societies

• Colonel James W. Fannin Chapter, Victoria  Daughters of the Republic of Texas
• David Braman Chapter, Victoria  Daughters of American Colonists
• Guadalupe Victoria Chapter      (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Victoria Chapter #50      (Source: National Society Sons of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (14)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Victoria County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Victoria County, Texas     (Source: Google Patents)
• Victoria County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)

Vital Records

• 1850 Mortality Schedule      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Texas Birth Certificates      (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Texas Death Certificates      (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Texas Vital Records: Marriages 1824-1900  includes Victoria County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Victoria County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Victoria County     (Source: Family History Library)
• Victoria County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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