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Family Search
For __(Last Name - date
completed)________
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Online
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Info
at the
Museum
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(Blank)
(Not looked
For)
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Wise County Heritage Museum, 1602 S
Trinity St, Decatur, TX 76234
940-627-5586, http://www.wisehistory.com/,
contact@wisehistory.com
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Checklist
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(specific
local family histories in files and books)
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Family file
– in file cabinets at museum. Some have a family box.
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Family book -
on family book shelves at museum
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PDFs
of 14 books searched
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Cates
Pioneer History of Wise County - Terrell
History and Family book – 3 Vol History of Wise Co., A
Link With The Past - Alvord Centennial
– Bridgeport, The First 100 Years -Bridgeport
Historical Pictures – Decatur Square – 2 Vol
History of Paradise & Cottondale
Family
histories & pictures printed below if found
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2
vol The History of North & West TX (1906) - Biographical
Souvenir of TX (1889) Printed if
local
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Births
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(local birth
records that are in books or can be looked up on computer)
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Wise County
Birth Records (1864-1933)
(1926-1939) Lists
Printed Below (if found)
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Wise County
Births (1950-95)+Recent Wise County Messenger announcements
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1976-1999
from the Bridgeport
Index Births+Birthdays
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Newspapers
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(local
newspaper searchable images from microfilm of years 1880-2022 with
some indexes)
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Wise County
Messenger + Decatur News PDFs from 1880-some transcribed
& names
index
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Alvord News +
Gazette (1931-1994 available as searchable
PDFs)
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Birdgeport
Index 1910-2019 searchable PDFs 1910-1975
names index
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Census
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(our books of
transcriptions were done by local people who added extra
information)
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1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 + 1940 - indexes for most, images of all
pages
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School
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(school
information, old school census and most local school yearbooks)
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1915-1939
school census record books giving child's name, birth date and
parents
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1940-1950’s
school census cards giving child’s name, birth date &
parents
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School
yearbooks from Alvord,
Boyd,
Bridgeport,
Chico,
Paradise,
& Decatur
Baptist College
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School
yearbooks from Decatur & Slidell Some
Decatur now online
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Marriage
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(recorded
Wise County marriages from microfilm & online records)
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1881-2001 recorded marriages
(1881-1945) (1966-2001)
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1901-present marriage and anniversary
announcements from newspapers
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1968-2001 listing of divorce records
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Military
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(Civil War
& other war veteran information & much information about
the Lost Battalion)
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Discharge
papers, veteran burials, & pension applications
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Large
collection of books and information about the Lost Battalion
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Death
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(cemetery
records, recorded deaths, death certificates, funeral home records
& obituaries)
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Cemetery
& headstone information (headstone pictures online)
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Funeral home
records
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Recorded
deaths & death
certificates
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Obituaries
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Other
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(many, many
other resources)
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Voter
registration slips
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Many books
about nearly all other counties and states, the old west, and wars
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Some land
records but the best place for this is the Wise County Records
Office:
County Clerk, Sherry Lemon, P.O. Box 359, Decatur, Texas 76234
940-627-3351,
940-627-2697 (Fax), countyclerk@co.wise.tx.us
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X + Underlined blue words above
are Links to the free online information
Also check
Find-a-Grave (free) https://www.findagrave.com/
, Family Search (free)
https://www.familysearch.org/
,
Ancestry (paid) https://www.ancestry.com/
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