I ordered a passle of microfilm from various depositories a couple of years ago. It tooks many many months to get the film, and many many hours to go through the reels. However, as I live in Minnesota, and am researching my Texas ancestors, this was the only way to go for me. Joan >Texas County Tax Rolls are available from the organization date of the county >through 1901. Loans are limited to five rolls per person. Requests should be >made on an ALA Interlibrary Loan Form and must include county and years >required. Loans are available from: > > Genealogy Collection > Texas State Library > Box 12927 > Austin, TX 78711 >To find what year county organized go to: >http://link.tsl.state.tx.us/g/genealogy/.files/tax > >To see what county records are available on microfilm for interlibrary loan, >go to: > >http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/local/index.html > >and click on county of interest. > >These microfilms are in various depositories around the state. Info on >ordering is at the above site. > >I tend to forget about this service, as I deal mostly with Williamson County >and practically live at the courthouse <g>. > >Linda E. JoanDean@fishnet.com Researching: BRIDGES, BYRD, FARQUHAR, GILL, GRAY, MATHIS, SMITH, WHITLEY, WILEY -------------------------------- End of TXWILLIA-D Digest V00 Issue #89 ************************************** From root@lists6.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 1 19:20:19 2000 Return-Path: <root@lists6.rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by listsearches.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e722KJw27632 for <indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:20:19 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e722KKL18527 for indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:20:20 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:20:20 -0700 Message-Id: <200008020220.e722KKL18527@lists6.rootsweb.com> From: TXWILLIA-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: TXWILLIA-D Digest V00 #89 X-Loop: TXWILLIA-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TXWILLIA-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume00/89 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: TXWILLIA-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TXWILLIA-L@rootsweb.com ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TXWILLIA-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 89 Today's Topics: #1 Re: [TXWILLIA] Probate Records [Jan <msgenbug@swbell.net>] #2 [TXWILLIA] Contents of Probate. Wh [Ric <fdg@flash.net>] #3 Re: [TXWILLIA] Probate Records ["Duane Windsor" <duanewin@gateway.] #4 Re: [TXWILLIA] Probate Records [LREMRY@aol.com] #5 Re: [TXWILLIA] Probate Records on [Joan Elwell <JoanDean@fishnet.com>] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TXWILLIA-D, send a message to TXWILLIA-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too.