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 History in Burnet County
Beginnings in Burnet County
Life and Living in Burnet County
- Business In Burnet County
- Census of Burnet County
- 1860 Census
- 1860
Mortality Schedule - a list of
persons who died in Burnet County during the year that ended 1 June
1860.
- 1870 Census
- 1880
Census - This link will take you to
the LDS Church Website. You can search by surname or by county.
This is a free census search page. Let me know if I can help you with
the page.
- Census of Other
Locations
- Census
Soundex Converter - Click on this link to go directly to Rootsweb's
Soundex converter
- Lineages of
Burnet County Pioneers - Descendant charts submitted by Burnet County
researchers. Send yours in today! Please limit to the earliest Burnet
County Pioneer plus 3 or four generations.
- Naturalizations - A list of names, country of origin and date
of declaration or granted naturalization from a WPA effort in 1941.
 Newspaper Tidbits - Snippets of general interest transcribed from microfilmed
copies of The Burnet Bulletin and Marble Falls Messenger. Other newspapers items below:
- Newspaper
Indexes
- Original Pioneer
Stories - Stories,
letters, and journal entries from the past. Please share your
ancestor's musings with us.
- Photographs
- Photo
Album - a collection of photos in
alphabetical order from various sources: submitted by researchers,
vertical files of Herman Brown Free Library, newspapers. Photos are
linked to other information about the subject.
- Index
of Photos in "A Pictorial History of the Burnet Area", published by the Burnet Bulletin in 1994.
- Recipes
from the Past - from the Burnet Bulletin of 1874. Add to our
collection--send in your family's favorite old time recipe!
- Reunions
- School
- Catalogue of the Burnet High School, 1892-93 - a
transcription of the school catalogue that lists school board members,
faculty, and all students for the year
- Teachers in the County, 1899, a list
- Spring Creek School, 1899
- Spring Creek School, 1901
- Marble
Falls High School, Junior Class, 1943
- Marble
Falls High School, Senior Class, 1944
Military - Click on this link to go to information about the
categories described below:
- Military Grave Markers - Links to organizations that may be able to help
you identify symbols on military graves
- Ft. Croghan - established by the United States government in the
first quarter of 1849 to protect white settlements from hostile
Indians, and abandoned by December 1853.
- Come
to Ft. Croghan Days, a frontier folk-life festival, 11 Oct 2008.
Experience pioneer culture and demonstrations in soap making, cooking,
needlework, and more! Free!
- Indian Raids - articles about
the Indian War in Burnet County
- Civil War - Sketches
of Civil War Vets; Veterans buried in Burnet County; Confederate Pensioners List
(with links to pension transcripts); Indigent List; 1890 Veterans
Schedule, and other Civil War Links.
- Spanish American War - Participants from
Burnet County and links to sites with information about this war
- World War I - List of participants, Veterans buried in the County,
news articles, and links to WWI sites.
- World War II
- List of participants and casualties from Burnet
County. Links
to WWII casualty and many other databases. Please share your
WWII info for inclusion in this section.
- Korean War - Casualty List
for county and research links.
- Vietnam War - Casualty List
for county and research links.
Endings in Burnet County
- Cemetery List - an alphabetical list of all known cemeteries
in the County. Links to geographic information, location description,
and links to transcriptions. See list below.
- Cemetery
Photos - a USGenWeb project accepting photos from
volunteers and cataloged by county. This link is to Burnet County
cemetery photos, but you can find links to other states and counties,
too, on that page.
- Cemetery Transcriptions
- Death Records Index - An alphabetized list of deaths occurring from
1903-1917. One record was from 1886; another record was from 1891. This
intro page has links for Surname - Alpha; Date of Death; and Cause of
Death.
- Funeral
Notices Index - 1950s to mid
1980s, with date of funeral, church and minister info, and cemetery
- Obituaries - an index of obituaries
at this site. Full obituaries culled from old newspapers and
contributed by researchers. Send
yours in NOW!
- Obituary
Index from microfilmed Newspapers
- Probate
Index - an alphabetized list of early probate cases
- USGenWeb Tombstone Photos Project (Burnet County)
Research Links for Burnet and other Counties
- Addresses - This
site is filled with information on public records for all counties. It
lists sheriff's offices, county clerks offices etc. Some counties, like
Burnet, have their property database on line and it is fully
searchable. You can find most of the addresses you're looking for in
your research.
- Archives - TXGenWeb
Archives for Burnet County.
- Burnet County Email
List! -- Send message to: txburnet-l-request@rootsweb.com
- In the body of the message type "subscribe" without the quotes. Turn
off any signature files you might use. This is a low-volume list for
persons interested in Burnet County genealogy. There is a Digest
version of the list available. If you'd prefer to subscribe to the
Digest, send the above message to: <txburnet-d-request@rootsweb.com>.
To see archived messages, go to Message Archives.
- Message
Board - Post your queries or family data here on the
Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards. These postings are automatically
"gatewayed", or sent to the Burnet County e-mail list.
- Burnet County
Links Page - links to sites which
may have interest to Burnet County researchers. Many are the personal
genealogy of persons who have ancestors in Burnet County. If you have a
genealogy page on the internet with ties to Burnet County and would
like to have it linked here, please e-mail me.
- Burnet County
Reference Books FOR SALE - The
Burnet County History, Vol I and Vol II; Burnet County Cemetery
Records, 1852-1982; and more
- Courthouse - Information
about the courthouse, addresses, telephone numbers, and a picture of
the courthouse in 1937 when it was dedicated.
- Genealogical and Lineage Organizations - meeting
dates, officers, and program notes
- Libraries -
- Lookups - individuals
who have volunteered to look up specific information.
- Microfilm -
- ...at the Burnet Library - old county newspapers,
census records, and Texas death records
- ...at Baylor
University - birth, death, probate, deeds, tax records -- all
available through interlibrary loan
- Newspaper Indexes
- Burnet Bulletin - 1874,
1876, 1878 - an index of microfilmed newspapers, various
months for the mentioned years, arranged by date and then surname.
Ongoing project.
- Burnet Bulletin - 1898
through 1913 - an index of microfilmed Burnet Bulletin issues for
mentioned years. The list is organized alphabetically by name, with
columns showing type of event and date of newspaper issue in which the
name is mentioned.
- Highlander - an index
of historical articles about Burnet County or citizens of Burnet County
that appeared in The Highlander Newspaper during the 1970s. Some Llano
County articles.
- River
Cities Tribune - an index of
family history articles published in 2002-2003.
- Obituary Index from
microfilmed newspapers
- Others - - an index of newspaper items found in the Vertical
Files of the Herman Brown Free Library, and other sources. Organized
alphabetically by name, title of newspaper and date. Oct 2000.
- Links
to Other Sites about Burnet County
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