In many of the States, Portrait and Bio Albums were done on the different counties back in the late 1800's. Was anything like that done in Texas? I also have many websites in other states, such as University libraries that have scanned copies of old out of copyright books on genealogy and history of counties. Anything like that here in Texas? Thanks for any help. Jan

Some years ago, Susan Hawkins scanned the Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas 1889 and posted it to the TXFannin Website. There are several Counties which link to this book. I THINK it mainly references Northeast Texas families. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txfannin/s.html In the process of re-making the entire TXFannin Site, I have re-posted the Biographical Souvenir to the new site and have created an index directly hotlinked to the referenced pages. This new version can be found here: http://www.txfannin.org/book/souvenir/souvindex.html Both sites will remain active for the forseeable future but the original site will eventually come down. Those of you linked to the old site, might ought to go ahead and change your links. The Portal to Texas History has many fully scanned books available for reference. I have created a page on the TXFannin site linking to several that may interest you (and some that won't). But that will get you to the Portal and you can search for further references for your county bookshelf. http://www.txfannin.org/book/offsite.html You might also use the Google Book search http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp and the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/index.php to search for books. Both have been excellent resources for me. Suzie TXFannin On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Jan Cortez <janacortez@charter.net> wrote: > In many of the States, Portrait and Bio Albums were done on the different > counties back in the late 1800's. Was anything like that done in Texas? > > I also have many websites in other states, such as University libraries > that > have scanned copies of old out of copyright books on genealogy and history > of counties. Anything like that here in Texas? > > Thanks for any help. > > Jan > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, Jan, but in the current (January/February 2009) issue of Genealogical Helper, page 70, there is an article headlined "Gulf Coast State Histories Slated for Online Access-Houston Public Library Joins Family Search in Digitization Effort." Datelined Salt Lake City, Utah, June 24, 2008, it goes on to say, "Thousands of publications that capture the diverse histories of Gulf Coast states will be accessible for free online. FamilySearch and the Houston Public Library announced a joint project today to digitally preserve and publish the library's vast collection of county and local histories, registers of individuals, directories of Texas Rangers, church histories, and biographical dictionaries. The digital records will be available for free online at FamilySearch.org and HoustonLibrary.org." There are several more paragraphs to the announcement. Pat Stephenson http://www.txgenweb4.org/txmadison/ > From: janacortez@charter.net > To: txgen@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:19:46 -0500 > Subject: [TXGEN] Questions > > In many of the States, Portrait and Bio Albums were done on the different > counties back in the late 1800's. Was anything like that done in Texas? > > I also have many websites in other states, such as University libraries that > have scanned copies of old out of copyright books on genealogy and history > of counties. Anything like that here in Texas? > > Thanks for any help. > > Jan > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_022009