Mike, they sent you to the wrong part of the state! Houston has a very large genealogical collection, spanning two buildings. One entire building is devoted to family genealogies, while the other, much larger, building has everything else. Patricia In a message dated 1/7/2014 7:16:06 P.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: In 2012, when Barry took me to the Dallas Public Library they proudly told me there were the 8th largest genealogical Library in the USA (I was very disappointed, as I had been told that everything in the Great State of Texas was larger than any where else in the USA.)