Lamar County Reference Books and
Resources and Look-up Volunteers
I have listed many of the Lamar County books that are available, although
certainly not all. If you own any Lamar County books, whether listed
or not, and will do look-ups, please let me know. As you can see,
volunteers are needed, and we can use more than one volunteer per
book. Also included are record databases and, NOW, several CDs!
Feel free to request a look-up from the following resources. Please
limit your request to one name per request. Please put LAMAR COUNTY
LOOKUP in the subject line of your request to insure the message is
not overlooked or accidently deleted. In the first line of the message
please put the name of the book you are requesting the lookup in.
If you request a lookup, don't forget to thank your volunteer for
their time.
Due to possible problems with copyright laws, you should not ask lookup
volunteers to send you copies of pages from the books nor to extract
large amounts of information from the resource. Several of the resources
listed below are available for sale through the Lamar County Genealogical
Society. You may review Books for Sale by clicking here. The indexes
for some of the books are below.
Each resource is listed along with an explanation of the type of
resource and whether the lookup is limited or unlimited. Where a resource
is marked unlimited, the amount of information that may be obtained
is only limited by the time the volunteer is willing or can devote
to the lookup.
| Reference Book/Database
| Type of Resource and Lookup Allowed
| Lookup Volunteer E-mail
|
Marriage & Cemetery Databases
|
| Marriage Records 1841-1900
| Online!
| Click here
to search
|
| The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, a family
history research project compiled by Ron Brothers (over 70,000 records
in database)
| Online!
| Database
|
Census Records
|
| 1850 Census Lamar and Red River Counties, compiled by Skipper Steely
| Book - Limited
| Fred L. Graham
|
| 1860 Census Lamar County, compiled by Mary Lane
| Book - Unlimited
| Index is online -
check there first then email Mary
Walthall
|
| 1870 Census Lamar County, compiled by Mary Lane
| Book - Unlimited
| Index is online -
check there first then email Mary
Walthall
|
| 1880 Census Lamar County, transcribed by Don at drbnc@aol.com
| Online!
| Start
here
|
County History
|
| First Settlers of Lamar County, Texas, by Gifford White, Information taken from the Originals in The General Land Office and The Texas State Archives, Austin, Texas.
| Book - Unlimited
| Frances Holland
|
| History of Lamar County, by A. W. Neville
| Book - Unlimited
| Skipper Steely
Laurel Nowell
|
| Loose Leaves of the History of Lamar County, by Ed H. McCuistion,
compiled by Betsy Mills
| Book - Unlimited
| Index is
online - check there first!
Then email: Betsy Mills
|
| Fifty Years in Texas, The Diaries of John A. Rutherford, edited by Phillip R. Rutherford, printed 1985.
| Book - Limited
| Laurel Nowell
|
| Backward Glances, Vol. 1, by A. W. Neville
| Book - Limited
| Barbara Ferrell
|
| Backward Glances, Vol. 2, by A. W. Neville
| Book - Limited
| Barbara Ferrell
|
| Backward Glances, Vol. 3, by A. W. Neville
| Book - Limited
| Barbara Ferrell
|
| Red River Valley Then & Now
| Book - Limited
| Barbara Ferrell
|
| Compiled Index to Elected and Appointed Officials of the Republic of Texas 1835-1846, by Texas State Archives, 1981
| Book - Limited
| Laurel Nowell
|
| Paris High School Yearbooks, 1920-1922
| Book - Unlimited
| Barbara Ferrell
|
| Paris High School Yearbook, 1935
| Book - Unlimited
| Susan Glover
|
| Paris City Directory - 1954
| Book - Unlimited
| Yvonne Gray
|
| Lost, Abandoned, Family and Small Cemeteries along the Red River
Valley in Northeast Texas in Fannin, Grayson, Collin, Red River, Delta,
Cooke, Hunt and Lamar Counties
| Book - Unlimited
| Nicol Brown
|
| Six Months from Tennessee, by Skipper Steely - "A story of the many
pioneers of Miller County, Arkansas, based upon the life of Claiborne
Wright, the most dominant of those who dared to settle in what would
become Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas.
| Book - Limited
| Rebecca Hitzman
|
Other Volunteers
- these volunteers may ask to be reimbursed for expenses
they incur (copies, printing fees, postage, film or video
tape, etc.), but will not charge for their time. Please make
sure if they will require reimbursement BEFORE asking them
to do something for you. "Limited" means you may ask them
for a few lookups/pictures/etc. - not "every Smith in the
cemetery." For research beyond a few lookups, please consider
hiring a researcher from the area. See the list of local researchers
for hire. Before asking one of the volunteers to take
a picture for you, please check these websites to make sure
the picture hasn't already been taken:
At
One Time FindAGrave
Also check the Death
and Cemetery Records
|
| Cemetery Photos
| Limited
| Debra Usry
|
| Cemetery Photos
| Limited
| Kriste Broussard
|
| Obituary Lookups
| Limited
| Debra Usry
|
Indexes to Lamar County, Texas Publications
Lamar County Genealogical Society Quarterlies - (you can get the
results from these using the search on the first page also)
Volume 3 - out of print
Volume 4-5 - no index available
Volume 6 and 7
Volume 8 and 9
Volume 10 and 11
Volume 12
Volume 13
Volume 14
Volume 15
Volume 16
Volume 17
Volume 18
Volume 19
Volume 20
Volume 21
Volume 22
Volume 23
Volume 24
Volume 25
1860 Lamar County Census
1870 Lamar County Census
Loose Leaves
of the History of Lamar County
To order these books
from the Lamar County Geneaglogical Society
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