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WELCOME TO VICTORIA COUNTY, TEXAS

This website is available for adoption.
If you are interested, please contact
Bunny Freeman
TXGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator and temporary Victoria County Coordinator

This website is a part of the TXGenWeb project and the USGenWeb Project.
Its purpose is to provide genealogical information, as well as genealogical resources in Victoria County.
We welcome contributions – please contact Bunny Freeman, if you have information you would like to share.

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Victoria County is honored to now be included in the TXGenWeb Project Hall of Fame.

Victoria was settled as a colony of Martin de Leon in 1824 under the Mexican government. In 1836 it became an original County of the Republic of Texas. Victoria is the county seat.

Adjacent Counties

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Victoria County Cemeteries	Evergreen Cemetery pictures of some markers with comments	Victoria Co. Cemetery Photographs Texas Tombstone Project
Fordtran Cemetery Also known as the Midgett Cemetery	Girdy Cemetery pictures of the Girdy family markers	Memorial Square Cemetery a list of those known to be buried here
Mission Valley Cemetery	Union Soldiers Buried at Victoria-1865	McFaddin Cemetery also contains other info about McFaddin
Confederate Soldiers Buried at Victoria	Victoria Catholic Cemeteries provides a search engine	Booker/Jewett Cemetery Inventory of Graves with some pictures.
Afro-American Funeral Records Part I (includes cemetery info) 1943-47, 1961-69, 1969-81, 1981-96 Afro-American Funeral Records, Part II 1915-22 1923-28	Oliver Cemetery Telferner Cemetery

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1850 Census	1880 US Census found on Family Search	Former Postmasters 1846-1936
Former Mayors 1839 to the present	Former District Attorneys from 1838 Former Sheriffs from 1838	Brands and Marks & Family Land Heritage Ranches
Early Doctors in Victoria 1836-1920	City Council Members from 1836-1998	Victoria Co. Grist Mills some of the early owners
Early Hotels of Victoria owners and dates	Short Bios of Early Residents	Notes on Early Residents many family connections
Notes from the Victoria Advocate Column "100, 75, 50 Years Ago"	Obituaries from the Victoria Advocate 1885-1887	Obits From the Victoria Advocate Column "100, 75, 50 Years Ago"
Some Death Records McFaddin area,1930-1936	Letters in the Victoria post office, May 1848	Family Histories Add your family history.
Vital Extractions from the Victoria Advocate Vol.III 1894-1897, Vol.IV 1898-1899, Vol.V 1900-02, Vol VI, 1903-04 Vol VII, 1905-06, Vol VIII 1907-08 Vol IX, 1909-11,and Volume X, 1912-1914	Henry Wolff's Journal Index Names from his Victoria Advocate columns, 1979-1980 Henry Wolff's Journal Index - 1981 Henry's Journal Online.	Spanish Genealogy Research help from Gloria Candelaria
Fugitives Victoria Co. 1866-1877	Victoria Texas Election Records 1838-54 also Civil Officers of the County	Reminiscences of an Old Texas Pioneer an interesting account of early travel to Texas

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(these records are of interest since many people moved from Indianola to the Victoria area.)

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P.O.Box 413, Victoria, TX 77902
VCGS meets on the 2nd Monday of each month, 7:00pm,
First Christian Church, Colorado and Ben Jordan, Victoria

Victoria County Genealogical Society is a partner society of the Texas State Genealogical Society , District 3.

VCGS Page Membership application available here	Victoria Co. Mail List Site we invite you to join our mail list	VCGS Quarterly-Table of Contents Vol.I-Vol.20 Vol.21-Vol.34
Researchers local independent researchers	Lookups a new service is now offered by VCGS	Books Available cemetery books and family books
Surnames	Members Webpages	Old Postcards of Victoria County
Awards Presented to VCGS

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NEW ITEMS :

• Our final volume of Newspaper Extractions, Volume X, 1912-1914, is now online.

New items in previous months

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QUERY BOARD
Post and View Queries here

Queries should have a Victoria County Connection

Post a new query on the Victoria County Board. Choose "Start a New Thread" and enter the info required. Your queries posted to this website will be included in the Victoria County Genealogical Society Crossroads Quarterly
View all queries posted since 31 Mar 2000 on the same board. To search for a specific name, use the "search" feature and choose "Victoria Board".
You may post free Victoria County queries in our Victoria County Genealogical Society Crossroads Quarterly.

Queries Archive-alphabetized listing of queries received before 31 Mar 2000

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MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS

VICTORIA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEETINGS

The Victoria County Genealogical Society normally meets the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m.
First Christian Church, Colorado and Ben Jordan, Victoria, in the Fellowship Hall.

VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

"SUMMER BREAK" - Meetings may be canceled in the summer, so check with the group to determine the next meeting date.

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LINKS YOU MIGHT LIKE

Victoria County Historical Commission's Oral History Project - Interviews are recorded, then stored in the Archives to preserve the history of Victoria county. If you are interested in being interviewed, please contact Barbara Smith, Project Chairman and Interviewer. (To return to this page, use your back button.)

How to Clean and Repair Gravestones - from the Victoria County Historical Commission. (To return to this page, use your back button.)

BEGINNING GENEALOGY LINKS

• Rootsweb Guide to Tracing Family Trees

VICTORIA LINKS:

• The Texas German Society - Victoria, TX Golden Crescent Area website is now online

• Spanish Genealogy This is a very helpful website by Gloria Candelaria.

• Victoria Regional History Center, a department of the Victoria College/Univ of Houston-Victoria Library. Many pictures of the Photograph Collection are on line as well as a list of Archives and Manuscripts.

• The Victoria Advocate-Victoria's newspaper online.

• The Victoria Advocate Archives - The Advocate now has archives that can be searched online. Choose "News", Then choose "Archives" in the Search engine. When the Archives page comes up, enter the name you want in the Search engine.

• Victoria Public Library

• Museum of the Coastal Bend Victoria's newest museum, developed to showcase the rich multi-cultural heritage and archaeology of the mid-coastal region of Texas.

• Victoria County Departments Website

• HENRY'S JOURNAL ONLINE. You can now read Henry Wolff's Journals online.

• Texas Handbook Online

• Victoria Catholic Cemeteries. There are 25 Victoria Diocese Catholic Cemeteries online at this website.

• Victoria County Archives - a USGenWeb project.

• McFaddin Cemetery - In addition to information about the cemetery, this site also contains information on some of the historic locations in McFaddin, Victoria County, Texas. McFaddin is also known as "Marianna" to many people in the area.

• Vietnam Virtual Wall virtual wall of all those lost during the Viet Nam war with the names, bio's and other information. First click on a state, then when it opens choose a city and a name.

TEXAS RECORDS LINKS:

• Handbook of African American Texas - on The Texas State Historical Association website.

• Victoria County Landmarks . This is a part of a TXGenWeb project.

• Texas Births Database website - Victoria Births recorded for the years 1926-1995.

• Texas Deaths Database website - Victoria deaths recorded for the years 1964-1999.

• Death Records may also be found here.

• Texas Divorces Database website - Victoria Divorces recorded for the years 1968-2001.

• Texas Marriages Database website - Victoria Marriages recorded for the years 1966-2002.

• Texas State Genealogical Society

• Republic of Texas Claims

• "Postoffices and Postmasters of Texas Counties"

• Biographical Souvenir of Texas - Susan Hawkins, Fannin County CC, loaded this book onto the Fannin Co. website. It was published in 1889 and is some 944 pages of biographical info. There is a full name index.

• Cemeteries of TX

• Texas Surnames

GENEALOGY LINKS:

• TXGenWeb Genealogy

• Index for All TXGenWeb Counties

• USGenWeb Genealogy

• WorldGenWeb Genealogy

• "The Genealogy Page of the National Archives and Records Administration"

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING LINKS:

• Sons of Confederate Veterans - For more information contact Ron Sandidge.

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas, James Walker Fannin Chapter

• Find A Grave

• Andersonville Civil War Prison site - this is an informative site for any of you who have Union soldiers in your ancestry who were imprisoned at Andersonville GA.

• Immigration Ships from Germany

• In Memory of Our TXGenWeb Coordinators

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Victoria County is honored to have been chosen COUNTY OF THE YEAR for 2009

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This page is a part of the TXGenWeb project and the USGenWeb Project.

If you are interested in adopting a Texas county for the TXGenWeb project,
please visit the orphan county webpage or contact Bunny Freeman Assistant State Coordinator for TXGenWeb.



Thanks to the volunteers who have helped Victoria County achieve this award three times, which now includes Victoria County in the TXGenWeb Hall of Fame.

This Site Last Updated 16 October 2019

Thanks for visiting our Victoria County page, constructed by Cynthia and Jack Buttram, with special thanks to Kearby Buttram and Wendy Koh, Brenda Hagler. Currently maintained by TXGenWeb County coordinator. Y'all come back soon!

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Copyright � 1997-Present by Victoria County Coordinators for the TXGenWeb Project. This is a free genealogy site to be used for personal, not-for-profit research. This material may not be included in any publication or any other reproduction that is for profit.