Texas, Coleman County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
The collection consists of records from Coleman County, Texas. At this time only deed records are available. This collection is being published as images become available. This Collection will include records from 1849 to 2008. For additional county records see the "FamilySearch Catalog" below. After the county's creation, a county land office was formed. Land transactions among private owners were then recorded by the registrar of deeds in the county office.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
 * Names of interested parties
 * Date of transaction
 * Legal description of the property
 * Monies exchanged
 * Details of the transaction
 * Names of witnesses

How Do I Search This Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * Name of the person
 * The location or date of the transaction

How Do I Analyze the Results?
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What Do I Do Next?
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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Add any new information to your record
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records. (Make sure that if it’s a marriage article, you take the word marriage out, if it’s a birth article, take the word birth out, etc.)
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses. Witnesses were usually family members
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?

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 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby town or county
 * Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for these names as well
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Research Helps
The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Texas.
 * Texas Guided Research
 * Texas Record Finder
 * Texas Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Texas Research, 1880-Present

Other FamilySearch Collections
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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Coleman County, Birth records, 1849-1985
 * Coleman County, Marriage records, 1914-1951; index, 1877-2008
 * Coleman County, Death records, 1903-1971
 * Coleman County, Probate records, 1881-1943
 * Coleman County, Probate minutes, 1919-1941
 * Coleman County, Discharge records, 1919-1954; index, 1918-1990
 * Coleman County, Deed records, 1867-1923; index, 1848-1925
 * Coleman County, Naturalization records, 1886-1916
 * Coleman County, Burkett, Birth,1928-1945 and death records,1928-1947
 * Coleman County, Santa Anna City Hall, Birth records,1936-1937
 * Coleman County, commissioner's Court minutes index, 1860s-1920

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