We cleared off the Orphan County list just a day or so ago but we are now starting a new one. As of this afternoon, Crane County is available for adoption. If you are interested, please contact
one of us.
Thanks,
Shirley, Elaine, & Jane
A proud part of the USGenWeb The TXGenWeb Project is a grass-roots all volunteer genealogical/historical effort. Each county web page is commercial free and contains useful tips, online databases particular to that area, volunteer look-ups, surname queries, descriptions of local libraries, historical background information, contact information, and much more. All information is free.
We cleared off the Orphan County list just a day or so ago but we are now starting a new one. As of this afternoon, Crane County is available for adoption. If you are interested, please contact
one of us.
Thanks,
Shirley, Elaine, & Jane
Collin County was offline yesterday and part of today. It is now back online but with a new URL http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txcolli2/index2.html/Welcome.html
Shirley
Neighboring counties are: Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, and Polk.
Shirley
Lubbock County has been adopted by Betty Fowler and the URL will remain the same. Uvalde County has been adopted by Susan Collard and that URL will remain the same also.
If you have a neighboring county to either of these, please check your link to make sure you have the correct URL
Lubbock URL: www.txlubbock.org
neighboring counties: Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lynn, and Terry
Uvalde URL: http://www.txgenweb2.org/txuvalde/
neighboring counties: Bandera, Edwards, Kinney, Medina, Real, and Zavala
Upton County is now the lone Orphan County and is waiting to be adopted.
Shirley
JoHanna Pena is the newest member of the TXGenWeb and she has adopted Upton County. It's still cold and snowy/icy here in the northern part of Texas so please mush on over to the TXGEN list at txgen@rootsweb.com to say hello.
Welcome to the TXGenWeb, JoHanna!
Shirley
Hello!
It is with great pleasure for the Surfing Committee to announce the COUNTY OF THE YEAR for 2010.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! The award goes to WISE COUNTY with coordinators La Darla Walker Keith and Sue Tackel.
http://www.wisecountytexas.info/genweb/
This was not an easy task for the committee as it was a 5 way tie. Just too many great sites to pick from .
La Darla & Sue along with their many volunteers have made Wise County an outstanding resource for the patrons who research in the county. Countless hours are spent with the enormous about of information. For example there are over 33,000 marriage and divorce records. Over 19,000 records for births records. There's also probably way over 100,000 images of headstones and documents online that are linked to the Wise County pages.
They are just starting a county school yearbooks project. They have a person scanning the books, and then theywill put the page images online and do an alphabetical index of the names. For the index on this page go to http://www.wisecountytexas.info/misc%20genealogy/bhs_index.htm the names are a link to that page of the yearbook. They hope to do old yearbooks for all the county schools. It will be a big project.
Again CONGRATULATIONS to Sue & La Darla.
Please besure to go to txgen-l@rootsweb.com to tell them what a great site this is.
Anyone wanting to join the Surfing Committee or for the new CC's who want to know more, go to
Regards!!
Jane Keppler
Surfing Committee
Motley County moved some time ago and the new URL is
If you have a link to Motley County please update it. The neighboring counties are:Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall, and King.It has been awhile since I posted the link to the Free Programs & Helpful Links. We have had several new comers to our "family" the last few months, and you may find some helpful programs in the list.
If you find any problems, let me know. Also, if you know of any good freeprograms you would like to see on the list, just send me a link to them.http://txgenes.com/FreePrograms/
Happy New Year!Hi Everyone,
Each January I send reminders about housekeeping chores for our websites and this year is no different. It has been almost 3 years since the TXGenWeb moved off Rootsweb yet we are still finding links to the old site on RW. Please make sure all your TXGenWeb links go to
http://www.txgenweb.org
The staff wishes to take this opportunity to say "thank you" to each of you for all you do for your websites and the TXGenWeb. A state project is only as good as it's volunteers and the TXGenWeb Project is the best in the USGenWeb. No brag, just fact.
Shirley, Elaine, & JaneHello, Everyone,
The Surfin' Committee is pleased to announce Wise County as the November County of the Month. Congratulations to the County Coordinators, La Darla Keith and Sue Tackel!
You'll find many items of interest on the site, including World War I Discharge Papers, Funeral Home Records, 1906 Old Timers Reunion, Mystery Pictures, Huff Family Massacre, and many more. Please stop by and visit with La Darla, Sue, and the fine folks of Wise County here:
http://www.wisecountytexas.info/genweb/ .
Honorable Mention counties are Bee, Guadalupe, Harris, Hopkins, Montgomery, and Rockwall. Congratulations to all of those County Coordinators as well.