Title: Dallas County Records of Interest to the Genealogist at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library Dallas Public Library System
Description: This guide was created to show what Dallas County records are available for research by genealogists working at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, a part of the Dallas Public Library (DPL) system. It is a subset of the Dallas County Records Inventory Project begun by members of the Dallas Genealogical Society (DGS) in 1998.
Created By: Dava Beisecker Ladymon, Dr. Alan N Miller II, James Monagham Jr, Shirley Remnant Sloat, Kathy Williston
Date Created: 2001
Contents
- Introduction — iii
- Locations of Dallas County Records
- Official County sites — 1
- DPL: History and Social Sciences 8th floor — 2
- DPL: Genealogy 8th floor — 2
- DPL: Texas/Dallas History and Archives 7th floor — 3
- DPL: Government Publications 6th floor — 5
- Genealogically-interesting Dallas County Records at the DPL
- Histories/Atlases/Directories/Maps — 6
- Newspapers and Genealogical Periodicals — 12
- Vital Statistics Records:
- General — 14
- DPL Vital Records — 16
- Births
- Delayed Births
- Probate Births
- Adoptions
- Marriages
- Divorces
- Deaths
- Inquest Records — 17
- Funeral Home Records — 17
- Cemetery Records — 18
- Obituary Records — 24
- Probate/Will Records — 24
- The Court System — 26
- County Courts
- District Courts
- Municipal and Justice Courts
- Court Records — 28
- Church Records — 30
- Land/Deed Records — 32
- Naturalization Records — 34
- Census Records — 36
- Tax Records — 38
- Election Records — 38
- Voter Records — 38
- Military Records — 39
- Revolutionary War/Post Revolutionary Wars to 1846
- Republic of Texas
- Mexican War
- Civil War
- WWI, WWII
- Miscellaneous
- Appendix A - Historical List of Dallas County Courts — 43
- Appendix B – Some Official Dallas County Records in the RHRD Section of the DPL Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division — 46
- Index — 48
Publisher: Dallas Genealogical Society
Format: Paper; Number of Pages: 68; Height (Inches): 8.5; Width (Inches): 11.0; Binding Type: Stapled;
Language: English
Rights Holder: Dallas Genealogical Society
