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Hispanic Origins in the United States: A Guide to Local History and Genealogy Sources

Texas

Spanish missions dating back to the 1600s still dot the Texas landscape. Search these resources to learn more about the history and records of early residents. The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

Beginnings and evolution of the Mexican-American Hispanic communities in Dallas County: people, places, and folklore. by Troup, Alexander M.
Call Number: F392.D14 T76 1998
Biographical gazetteer of Texas : publication of the biographical sketch file of the Texas Collection at Baylor University, an ongoing project supervised by Virginia and William L. Ming.
Call Number: F385 .B56 1985
Early Texas Birth Records, Eighteen Thirty-Eight to Eighteen Seventy-Eight by Jane Sumner; Alice Gracy; Emma S. Gentry
Call Number: F385 .G7 1978
ISBN: 0893081302
Published/Created: 2002-01-01
Early birth records in 43 counties before 1903.
From Spain to Texas by Reginald Zepeda
Call Number: MLCM 2020/47245
ISBN: 9781479770076
Published/Created: 2012-12-01
Research in Texas by Lloyd D. Bockstruck
Call Number: CS42 .N43 no. 70 F385
ISBN: 0915156709
Published/Created: 1992-04-01
Where to find resources of different types of records in Texas.
Spain's Texas patriots in its 1779-1783 War with England during the American Revolution by Hough, Granville W., and N.C. Hough.
Call Number: F395.S75 H68 2000
Part 5 of Spanish borderlands studies.
Surname index by Harris County Genealogical Society.
Call Number: F392.H38 H29a
Published/Created: 1983-
Annual.
Texas birth index birth books.
Call Number: F385 [2004 05669]
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