Early Dallas Records

Topics

  • Introduction/Overview
  • Burial Records [Searchable Database] – Our website has Information documenting more than 50 historical cemeteries and a database containing detailed information about 41,000+ burials.
  • Marriage Records – Transcriptions of selected marriage records from 1846 – 1890.
  • Dallas County Deeds – Transcriptions of deed records recorded by the Dallas County Clerk of the County Court between 1846 and 1900.
  • 14th District Court Minute Abstracts, 1846 – 1855 – Find the names of the founders of Dallas – as jurors, defendants and plaintiffs, involved in the usual disputes of life.
  • District Court Civil Case Witnesses [Searchable Database] –  Witnesses for cases filed from the inception of the county in 1846 through early 1921. 
  • Probate Records [Searchable Database] – Dallas County Probate Records from 1850 to the early 1900s
  • County Tax Records [Searchable Database] – Transcribed from reel 1 of the Dallas County Tax Records. Entries are from 1846 and 1847 and  include name, acreage, nearest stream, total dollar value, etc.
  • US Census Records – A rich variety of information from the US Census recorded in the early years in the history of Dallas (1850 – 1880)
  • Dallas County, Texas Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880
  • Dallas has changed street addresses several times in its history. Learn more