Hi, I guess the main centers for Erath County research would be the Stephenville Public library and the Tarletn State University library. Dublin has a city library. Hamilton County Geneaological society takes in Hico aand some of what some consider Erath county- the south and southeast parts of the county are on Hico, Hamilton County mail routes. The LDS church or Stake should have Stephenville and Dublin research centers, mostly by computer. The best in Erath County is closed to public at Thurber, Texas-and is owned by the TP Coal and Oil, kept for possible future mining. Many early Erath County marriages & early land grants are in Meridian, Bosqye County and Waco, McLennan County county offices and census and libraries before Erath County was formed. The Waco- McLennan County has excellent facilities for researching the Bosque River valley. The Texas Collection of Baylor University is not in the University main library and dates back to 1845. The Texas Ranger Library is in the Ranger headquarters on I-35 in Waco, including all Texas Scouts for Taylor's Army (Rangers) The Texas State Library and sons of the Republic libraries in Austin are good, esp. before 1850. The best in Texas is the Clayton Library in downtown Houston. Most of these are on line. What families are you hunting? I now have several boxes of research from a deceased cousin and,certified Geneaologist- Mattie Roberts Somerville, an officer in the Natchitoches, La. Society, including Wyly, Hico Roberts, McCarty, Bonney, Sparks, Johnson, Somervell, and several others with tracks acrosss Texas, but am pressed for time for a few weeks. Take care, Charles Wyly On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:22:21 -0500 Kyle & Evelyn Long <belle@bigcountry.net> writes: > > >Kyle & Evelyn Long wrote: >> >> I am not sure the locations but I will cc this to the erath county >> mailing list and i bet you will get lots of help >> >> Evelyn >> >> David Moore wrote: >> > >> > Could some tell me where the best genealogy libraries are located >in >> > Stephenville Texas. I`ve heard somewhere that there was [maybe] 3 >of them? >> > Thanks, Gloria MçComas Moore >> > >> > ----------------------------------------------- >> > List problems? >> > Check >> > your WELCOME message FIRST >> > http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/problems.htm SECOND >> > then contact stephenL@indiana.edu >