If your family history research takes you to Texas, then you may be able to use a wonderful expansive free online resource, The Handbook of Texas Online. Though it does not give host family trees, or indexes to vital records it provides a great deal of factual information on Texas history that may help you understand your own family history. In addition, the handbook includes a large number of biographies of Texans.
The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association. Its source material is the
The New Handbook of Texas which is made up of more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and many other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.
The starting point for the editors of the New Handbook was the two-volume Handbook of Texas, published in 1952, and the Supplement published in 1976. Almost every topic that received an entry in those three volumes has been retained in the New Handbook. To this base of approximately 16,000 articles the editors added another 7,500 entries that dramatically expand both the scope of topical coverage and the level of detail.
Its articles represent the efforts of more than 3,000 authors from many walks of life. They include professional scholars, amateur historians and genealogists, college and university students, and numerous other individuals with special knowledge and a willingness to write about it.
All this information is available free online at http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/. Considering the scope of the content of this site it is user friendly and easily navigated. If you have an interest in American history, the migrations of families or specifically Texas history, I guarantee you will enjoy this site. If you have Texas roots, then possibly you, like me, will find that you can be absorbed for hours by this collection.
By the way, though it is free they do accept donations.
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