Considering that during WWI many thousands of women served in industry, in the Armed Forces, and in the Red Cross, and that millions of women registered in the effort to conserve resources for the war, it’s likely that records associated with WWI will contain at least one of your ancestresses. For an overview of … Read more
Information about TxSGS’s latest digital issue of Stirpes, the Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, recently went out to all TxSGS individual and household members. To simplify the process of accessing your digital edition of Stirpes, we have linked the digital edition to your TxSGS member account. The Stirpes email sent to all individual … Read more
Join us in Austin, June 10-14, for the 2019 Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR). Two tracks offer attendees in-depth learning on Texas Research Essentials or Advanced Southern Research Strategies. Learn from experts in Texas and Southern research such as Ari Wilkins. Register now. Ari Wilkins is a genealogist and library associate at Dallas Public … Read more
A wonderful research treasure to visit while in San Antonio at the 2018 TxSGS Annual Family History Conference is the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library. This 38,000 item repository has been developed and is supported and maintained by the DRT for the use of all researchers. Documents, books, maps, letters, and other artifacts … Read more
Researching Mexican soldiers taken prisoner in the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution. While some of these men returned to old Mexico, some stayed in Texas as well as what became the United States.