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United States Texas  Travis  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
E-mail: Reference Request Form

Address:


 * University of Texas at Austin 2313 Red River Street Austin, Texas 78705 USA

Telephone: Reference desk 512-495-4532, or Information desk 512-495-4518

Hours and holidays: Monday-Friday 10:00 to 5:00; Saturday 9:00 to 2:00 when University of Texas classes are in session; Holidays

Maps, directions, parking, and public transportation: Locations, Maps, Parking, and commuting directions

Internet sites and databases:


 * Briscoe Center for American History research, collections, projects, exhibits, museums, books, news.
 * University of Texas at Austin Library Catalog search by keyword, title, author, subject, or call number.
 * Genealogy Resources genealogy subject guides, census records, ship passenger lists.
 * Texas Colonial Period Resources for Genealogical Research

Collection Description
This collection is as large as the Texas state archives including newspapers, biographies, private collections, the American South, military history, Western Americana, photos, and the Natchez Trace Collection papers from Mississippi and Louisiana. Their collections help with ethnic research about Latinos, African Americans, Germans, Swedes, Texas pioneers, the American South including plantations and slavery, and official Spanish documents of the Mexican state of Coahulia y Texas. Military records cover all conflicts involving Texas such as the Texas Revolution (1836), Indian wars, and the American Civil War.

Tips

 * Plan your research visit
 * Using our reading room

Guides

 * A Guide to the Natchez Trace Collection of the lower Mississippi River Valley 1760-1920s
 * Collections: American South including the Natchez Trace Collection
 * Collections: Military History
 * Collections: Photography
 * Collections: Texas History
 * Subject guides including African American History, German Americans, Latino History and Culture, Mexican American History, Plantation Resources, Slaves and Slavery, Southern History, Swedes in Texas, and Texas Jewish Collections.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives at Fort Worth letters, photos, maps, settlement history, American Indians, the Civil War, slavery, Chinese exclusion, repatriation, segregation, and World Wars I and II.
 * Dallas Public Central Library 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states, and online databases. Outstanding for the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England.

Similar Collections


 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.
 * Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic collections, and Canadians.
 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers.
 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service and pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons.

Neighboring Collections


 * Chaparral Genealogical Society Library over 2,100 books, manuscripts, and microfilms.
 * Harris County Archives maps, manuscripts, oral histories, schools, orphan home, J.P. dockets.
 * Harris County Clerk births, marriages, deaths, and land deeds.
 * Harris County District Clerk civil, criminal, and family court records.
 * African American Library at the Gregory School history of African Americans in the Houston area.
 * Rice University - Fondren Library, Woodson Research Center Asian Americans, Civil War, slavery, Houston and Texas history, World War II, British Maritime &amp; Naval history, women's history.
 * San Jacinto Museum of History Library rare books, manuscripts, and histories about Texas.
 * Galveston and Texas History Center ethnic Germans in Texas and Gulf Coast immigrant database.
 * Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center earliest Texas settlers.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties:  Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Williamson.
 * Clayton Library, Houston, censuses, military, passenger lists, periodicals, family histories, maps, Texas and Houston records, veritcal files, British vital records index, German, Canadian records.
 * Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin, federal censuses, vital statistics indexes, military indexes, county tax rolls, city directories, newspapers, voter registration, convicts.
 * Texas Historical Commission, Austin, 5,000 publications of which 3,000 are books, historical sites, cemeteries, oral history, heritage trails, city and county histories, military history and photos.
 * Texas DSHS Vital Statistics, Austin, births, deaths, marriages, divorces.
 * Texas Heritage Museum, Hill College, Hillsboro, outstanding Civil War collection.
 * Southern Methodist University history, biography, newspapers, ethnic studies, government papers.
 * Texas Baptist Historical Society histories of local congregations.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas