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Genealogy Resources

Please note: The presence of a link on this site does not constitute an endorsement by Georgetown Public Library. Be advised that not all sources on the Internet provide accurate, complete or current information. Users should carefully judge the worth of these sources of information as they would any other resource. Just as libraries do not vouch for or endorse the viewpoints of written material in their collections, they do not do so for electronic information.

TexShare Databases

Among the many TexShare databases are some of particular interest to genealogists. Those resources are: Heritage Quest Online, Handbook of Texas Online, Texas Digital Sanborn Maps, Texas Reference Center, Bibliography of Native North Americans, and the World History Collection. To access the TexShare Databases, you must obtain a password from the Reference Librarian at the Georgetown Public Library or you can log on through the library catalog using your library card bar code and your telephone number.

Link to TexShare Databases

Getting Started

5-Step Genealogical Process
How to Start your family history

Genealogy Websites

Ancestry Plus [available only in the library]
Heritage Quest [Available remotely through TexShare databases-must obtain password from Reference Librarian at the Georgetown Public Library]
NARA: National Archives and Records Administration: The Genealogy Page
Family Search Internet Genealogy Service
Cyndi’s list of Genealogy Sites on the internet
Genealogy Toolbox
Roots-L
Williamson County Genealogical Society
American Local History Network- Williamson County, TX
Texas Genealogy TXGenWeb Project
Roots-L Texas
Texas State Library Genealogy Collection
Search for Ancestors
WorldCat for Genealogists This bibliographic database contains information on over 125 million items owned by 69,000 libraries worldwide.

Historic Newspaper Archives

The Stars and Stripes (in France) - 1918-1919
SmallTownPapers Newspaper Archive
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Genealogy Blogs, etc.

Geni.com This is a genealogy-based social networking web site. Users enter their biographical information to create their personal family tree, then invite family members to join. Family tree information is only available to members of the tree.
Geni.com Blog Contains tips on using geni.com, plus news and information about the web site. Postings also include hints on doing your own genealogical research.

Cemetery Information

  • Cemeteries in Williamson County at PODUNK
  • Texas Historical Commission Atlas
  • Cemeteries in Williamson County, TX
  • Williamson County Digital Cemeteries Project
  • Interment Net - Cemeteries of Williamson County, TX
  • Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator Search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker.
  • American Battle Monuments Commission Searchable databases include: interments at American WWI and WWII cemeteries overseas; names on Tablets of the Missing within the cemeteries and three memorials in the U.S.; casualities of the Korean War; war dead and veterans of the Mexican War, Civil War, and the Spanish-American War buried at the ABMC cemeteries in Corozal, Panama, and Mexico City; the Vietnam War Missing memorialized at the Honolulu Memorial; and all interments at Corozal, including civilians who built and operated the Panama Canal.

    • Digital Collections

    Google Book Search
    Library of Congress American Memory
    Digital Quaker Collection - Earlham School of Religion
    Documenting the American South
    University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Historical Map Collection






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