For those researchers who do not live in Victoria (which has a great genealogy collection at the public library and a great group of clerks at the courthouse), use this URL to try to find films which you may order, for a small fee, to your local LDS family history center. I discovered that the films do not have numbers on the website but you can obtain the film numbers at an LDS family history center. http://www.familysearch.org/ Look for a tab on the first page which is labeled Custom Search. Click on that, and a long list of choices will come up. Don't go to those--not yet--go back to them after you look at the catalog. Look for the Family History Library Catalog. Click until you a blank where you can fill in PLACE. Type in Victoria or Victoria Co. (preferable) and then Texas. Skip the listed books. Sometimes if the copyright has expired, the books have been filmed but not very often. You cannot borrow the books. However, you can usually, with a few restrictions, rent a film at your local LDS library. For Victoria Co., for instance, there are three reels of film for marriage records, there are about 14 reels of land records (deeds, generally--some of the early ones are in Spanish). I personally have perused filmed land records and most particularly probate records even though I live in California. If your readers live in Texas, perhaps they can interlibrary loan some of the listed books through the Texas State Library, Austin, although genealogy books seldom circulate. Each state's policies differ. Some University and college libraries have the books, however. For a time, if one was a member of the Victoria Genealogica Soc., one could request for a fee some research to be done. Note a donation or fee is customary. E.W.Wallace southern California