Project: Texas
Categories: Texas | Texas Projects
This project is part of the United States Project.
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The purpose of this project is to coordinate all Texas related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.
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Texas Bluebonnets |
To ensure that project members have a basic understanding of how Wikitree works, project members are required to have at least 200 contributions and have been a member of Wikitree for 30 days prior to joining the project.
Projects cannot do your research for you. If you don't know where to start, please see: Help:How to Get Started with Genealogy
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Texas Counties |
*Willie Nelson- Texas in my Soul

- Project Leaders: Darlene Athey Hill
- Coordinators: Mary Richardson
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Texas project and get a badge.
- Add Texas to your followed tags.
- We use Texas Google Group for communication.
- Here is the Texas project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
Please see our list of goals for a basic overview for ways you can help.
For a full list of participants in the United States Project, see the badge report.
Contents |
Texas Projects and Space Pages on WikiTree
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Texas Senate Seal |
- ◾ Nueva Espana /New Spain predecessor to Texas by Mary Richardson and Allan Harl Thomas
- ◾Texas Space Page
- ◾Defenders in the Battle of the Alamo
- ◾Immortal 32 of Gonzales Colony
- ◾Timeline for Texas counties Formation
- ◾Notables of Texas
- ◾Goliad Massacres
- ◾TEXAS Roots
- ◾New Orleans Greys
- ◾Remember the Alamo
- ◾TEXAS Declaration of Independence
- ◾Texas in the Mexican American War 1846-1848
- ◾Neutral Ground Liz Shifflett, Mary
- ◾ Governors of Texas Rick San Soucie
- ◾San Jacinto Battle
- ◾ Texas Space Page
- ◾Old Alice Road Allan Thomas
- ◾Old San Antonio Road(El Camino Real)
- ◾Old Alice Road by Allan Thomas
- ◾ Reminiscences of the Alamo Allan Thomas
- ◾Mier Expedition Summer Orman
- ◾Col. Sam's Bomb Shell, by Allan Thomas
- ◾Texas Resource Page US Civil War War Between the States
- ◾Texas Revolution
- ◾Texas in the Great War
- ◾Internment Camps in the United States
- ◾Arkansas neighbor to Texas Lynette Jester
- ◾Arkansas Project Lynette Jester
- ◾Southern Pacific Locomotive Disaster Nan Lambert
- ◾Texas City Disaster Mary R and Lynette Jester
- ◾Old Three Hundred by Steven Harris (under construction)
- ◾Daughters of the Republic of Texas by Steven Harris
- ◾Texas Cemeteries Project Progress
- ◾US Governors Project
- ◾Bartlett, Texas One Place Study
- ◾Complete Bibliography of Red River County History & Genealogy
- ◾Early Red River One Place Study Project, managed by Michael K. Smith
- ◾Texas Project Members Progress Page
Stickers for Ancestors
Add this sticker to the profile for a deceased person: {{Texas Sticker}} in the profile text box below the == Biography == header.
Then SAVE. Sticker -Template
This code :{{US History|sub-project=Texas}} will add the project box to a Texas Project managed profile
| ... ... ... is a part of Texas history. Join: Texas Project Discuss: Texas |
This template is used only on Project Space pages that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd; managed by the project. It is not for every person from Texas. A sticker is available for other circumstances.
Template for profiles managed by the Texas Project
Use this template only for profiles to be managed by the Texas Project and for Space pages:
- Contact Mary Richardson or Darlene Athey Hill first to inquire.
Place this {{Texas}} above the Biography Header. This must be accompanied by the Project Account as one of the managers. Mary has the project account information.
- Template:Texas
- This is the Managed By Texas template:
... ... ... is a part of Texas history.
Join: Texas Project
Discuss: texasStickers for Texas Project Members
- NOTE: All stickers must be placed UNDER the Biography heading and will right justify. Your text will wrap around it.
Add a Texas Project Member sticker to your profile to show your participation {{Texas Project Member}}, which you may add below the Biography heading on your profile. See Help:Stickers for details. SAVE after adding. This gives: ... .Evers-1230
... is a Project Member of the Texas Project, with a flag.Placement- Below the Biography header on the profile. See Help:Stickers for details
Texas Sticker for Texans
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Texas_Sticker
- {{Texas Sticker|a lifelong resident of Texas.}}
- {{Texas Sticker}} will show: "was a Texan"
Goals
The overall goals of the Texas Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in the state of Texas and to gather all sources on Texas in one place. To meet these goals:
- Add Texas-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
- If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.FIND sources. do not mark out data
- Add sources.
- Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
- Contact Mary Richardson (Project Coordinator) for information on the Counties of Texas or any information
- Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
- Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Texas. See the Homesteaders Project
- Develop Notables Project with sources! After creating a profile, link it to Texas page and Texas List of Notables space page.
- Unsourced Profiles
- Correct Errors for Errors Project. Follow links provided at Texas Data Doctors Suggestion List
... ... ... is a part of Texas history.
Join: Texas Project
Discuss: texas- Examples
- David G Burnet
- William Billy Dixon awarded civilian medal honor for Indian Wars, Hutchinson Co, Texas
- Lt Col. Daniel Montague, Mexican American War, Cooke County
Google Group
https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/wttexas
Ongoing List of Things to Do
- Search and list on this page Notables for profiles, Create Notables pages, with sources
- Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Texas. Homesteaders Project
- Texas unsourced profiles .
- Texas Resource Page War Between the StatesAdd profiles, connect Texas profiles served in Civil War
- Add Texas profiles which served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam
- List Sources on Roll of Honor project. and other Military Service
- Find Sources for any profile identified as Texas
- Provide more research for individual counties
- If you have any Texas state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the Texas Resources Page.
- If you live in Texas, please consider adding your name to the page for Texas Research Assistance .
- Note: To be considered active in this project, edit or add to the County Space pages, or create Biographies for the different profiles who lived in a specific county. If a person is not contributing, the person should reconsider whether you are an active member. If you are not interested, the badge might later be removed. However if you become interested in Texas History again you may reapply for the badge at a later date.
Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree
- Southern Colonies Project
- Spanish Nueva Espana
- US Southern Colonies Texas
- Flags of Texas for US Southern Colonies Texas Space page
- US Black Heritage Project Texas Team
- Spanish Record Translation Help See also for translations:
Texas Related Categories on WikiTree
- Texas Projects
- Texas, Cemeteries
- Texas Revolution
- Texas Rangers
- Texas Notables
- Texas Government Officials
- Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence
- Republic of Texas
- Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas
- Texas Colleges & Universities
- Texas Governors
- Siege of Bexar
- Texas, Immigrants
- Battle of San Jacinto
- Category: Texas, Unsourced Profiles
- Texas History
- Texas Founders and Settlers
- The Alamo
- Old Three Hundred
- Texas Immortals
- Goliad Massacre
- Mexican American War
- Texas Rangers
- NOTE: This is for the settlers prior to 1846. Texas has this link to apply for a certificate for other family members. However you must qualify according to their criteria.
Sources
- UTube-1847 Walker Revolver: the Texas Behemoth
- Runnning Reality- Comanches
- https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ Search for all states info
- Texas and World War I
- State Summary of War Casualties from World War II from Texas
- BLM Land Management GLO
- http://www.melickprofessionalgenealogists.com/regions/united-states/texas/
- http://www.txgenweb.org/tx/research.html
- TxGen
- Historic Texas cemeteries
- Cemeteries of Texas Gloria Mayfield
- Texas History Portal
- TexasGenWeb
- Texas Beyond History
- Sons of DeWitt Colony website
- http://www.glo.texas.gov/history/archives/land-grants/index.cfm GLO
- General Land Office Enter Last name first in the 3rd box for Original Grantee
- General Land Office
- http://www.tshaonline.org/supsites/military/rep_link.htm#PMR
- http://www.tshaonline.org/supsites/military/rep_link.htm
- http://www.tshaonline.org/supsites/military/t/travwb1t.htm
- http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28587/m1/6/
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/tab2wiki.php
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Timeline_for_Texas_Counties
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Geographically, Texas is comprised of seven uniquely different sections Panhandle North Texas 'Central Texas East Texas Upper Gulf Coast South Texas West Texas
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