Useful Links

Stanton Folks
This site is full of information on Martin County and Stanton, Texas, past and present.

**Ancestry.com this site has a large database. There is a lot of free information including the Social Security Death Index and some sites for a fee.

Welcome to The Permian Basin
University of Texas of The Permian Basin: Visit the J. Conrad Dunagan Library, they have an online searchable catalog, their Archives is the Texas Repository in this area and contain a wealth of local history and documents from all over West Texas are stored here. DON'T MISS THIS ONE

"We're the Internet version of The Abilene Reporter-News, which is the oldest continuous business in Abilene, Texas ... established only months after the town in 1881.

The Odessa American Newspaper (don't miss their Twentieth Century Section With 100 years worth of history on Ector County and The Permian Basin) Some obits for Scurry area are also published.

** Midland Reporter Telegram Newspaper for Midland, Texas. (don't forget to ck out their links section, has lots of local links.)

Visit the Ector County Library and search their online Catalog. If there are books with Scurry County information I can Look up the Information.

Texas small towns travel guide. Texas travel, towns, architecture, history, stories, and many Texas links.

County Clerk's Office Listings for Texas
Need an address for a county in Texas all are listed here!

This takes you to their links page there are over 100 links on this page.

The Atlas features more than 200,000 historic site records, including Historical Marker inscriptions and National Register of Historic Places property photos, as well as museum exhibits and sawmill records from 52 East Texas counties.

Family Treemaker Online

Funeral NET: Looking for what Funeral Homes are in a particular town or state, look at this site, it is really great link takes you to Texas area.

Genealogy-4-Fun introduce your family to the great game of genealogy, makes a great gift idea! This game is really fun!

Ever Wonder What State a Social Security Card was issued in this site tells you why.

GenExchange The GenExchange is all about databases. In fact the GenExchange was the very first web site of its kind, offering direct access to raw genealogical data, in completely searchable form from databases.
Don't Miss this Site!

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Beatty Project 2000 This site is for anyone with connections to surname BEATTY (all various spellings)

Barney Family Historical Association This is for anyone researching the BARNEY name.

Jimmy Kerr's INDEX OF SURNAMES

a Texas history resource provided for the benefit of both Texans and "foreigners"

The HandBook of Texas over 23,000 articles on every topic imaginable all concerning the Great State of TEXAS!

WPA Life Histories

Texas Trails - The Comprehensive Texas Information Site

TXGenWeb - links to other Texas Counties.

USGenWeb Genealogy - links to state sites.

TXGenWeb Archives - Archived data for Texas.

Gene Stark's Index of Names

Index of TXGenWeb Counties:
If you'd like to adopt a county, click this link: Orphan Counties Available for Adoption