Txgenweb postcard project books

This site is a part of the txgenweb project and the usgenweb project devoted solely to the genealogy and history of titus county. Citylab was totally new, and we needed a way to introduce ourselves to edmonton and to kickstart our little unit. Trey has been a member of the txgenweb project since august of 1996 as the cc of brazos county. Get your hands on a customizable texas postcard from zazzle. Genealogy webpages, books available for purchase about grayson county history. Dear data is a yearlong, analog data drawing project by giorgia lupi and stefanie posavec, two awardwinning information designers living on different sides of the atlantic. High quality, fullcolor, fullbleed printing on both sides.

The first settler within the limits of modern upshur county was probably isaac moody, who settled on the cherokee trace near west mountain in 1836. Find a large selection of sizes and shapes for your postcard needs. Texas cemetery records of lubbock and surrounding counties publisher. I am a writer more about that here and here and cohost of a reading series here and between myself and my writery friends, weve produced a number of stories too short and too odd to really find a home in any of the conventional places. Created on 3 may, 1871, and began operation in 1875 the county seat is. Grimes county was created in 1846 from a portion of montgomery county. Jul 2019 ive added wern cemetery to our list and to our map. We hope you dont notice much, if any, change, but there could be a short down time. Digitized city council books, audio recordings, and maps at the san antonio city archives. The churchs history is compiled in two books written by msgr.

Terrell county, texas images, photographs, postcards. Did you find the robertson county txgenweb project helpful or useful. Digital collections texas history libguides at university. If you want to submit information on your ancestors in hunt county, please contact larry.

While the main site will not experience a url change, some counties will soon have a new url. Lamar county is located in the northeastern corner of texas, on the oklahoma border. I am the volunteer host of nacogdoches county, a family history and genealogy web site. Apr 2019 we have a new query board for galveston county. These pages are created by volunteers and all the data is donated by volunteers. Sewickley pa postcard history series 9780738545554. Stop yer talking that way hand drawn 1908 sent from sulphur springs, tx to avinger, tx. First well was dug 1878 by landowner francis wootan. First district courthouse of texas columbus, tx 1920s. Humanities texas has supported numerous projects in african american history and culture through its grants program.

Indexes of books, marriage, probate, delayed births, cooke county. We support normal, nonprofit use the majority of the time. If you have photographs youd like to contribute, please drop me a line. To nominate this page for county of the month, visit the mike basham memorial award pages if you would like to adopt a county in texas, visit the orphan county page. Library references for crosby county, txgenweb project. A state special project, texas postcards, quoting from the home page of the special project. Tom hinton, project superintendent, and ed moss, attorney. University of houston libraries historic texas postcards. State postcard project by tami teaches tami lynn morrison tpt. Lamar county was first settled by several groups in different parts of an area to the west of jonesborough and clarksville. Austins colonists, a texas declaration of independence signer, and state senator. The following selection of projects comes from all corners of the state. Thank you for understanding and we hope you enjoy browsing through the postcards.

All proceeds go to the volunteer council for funding of patient projects. Welcome to the home page of cooke county on the txgenweb project. Enjoy your travels through time as you view some of the old cards. The postcard project is the worlds smallest magazine. However, i decided that one of the things i love about the postcard project is connecting with people i dont know in a positive way and occasionally sharing something with those i do know. Kygenweb project online kentucky genealogy resources.

Information on how robertson county may have acquired this rather unfortunate nickname is at booger county mojo. We wanted to be creative, surprising, and invite edmontonians to participate in order to set the tone for our units future work. Hopefully you will find these pages useful in your search for your ancestors in cooke county. The united states postal service began issuing prestamped postal cards in 1873. Txgenweb will soon be going through a move to a new home. This is the maximum thickness allowed by usps for a postcard to be mailed without an envelope. Postcards not only show the wide diversity of texas, but also allow us to record a bit of texas history. Postcard history series local and regional history books. Located in southwest texas, pecos county is the second largest county in the state, covering over 4,700 square miles. They made the donation in return for permission to use actual postsecrets in this music video. See more ideas about postcard book, book binding and book making. History of refugio mission, 1942, and our lady comes to refugio, 1944.

The postcard project a mail art collaboration established. Here youll find current best sellers in books, new releases in books, deals in books, kindle ebooks, audible audiobooks, and so much more. Carol submitted postcards of the texas city disaster. Even if you dont have texas roots, the histories can be very interesting. Ideal for collectors, postcrossing, scrapbooking, school postcard exchange projects, gifts, invitations, or just sending a note to a friend. The photos of the roster books will also be added in the future. Books available for purchase about grayson county history, researchers for hire. This site is a proud member of the txgenweb project and the usgenweb project. This page is a part of the upshur county txgenweb project and all of the information here is free for you to use. Includes more than 1,100 digitized historical books, as well as hispanic newspapers, political and religious pamphlets, and. The villain still persued her hand tooled leather 1907 sent from sulphur springs, tx to avinger, tx. Rootsweb the internets oldest and largest free genealogical community. You can vote for it or another txgenweb county for. Texas usgenweb project archives search engine texas tombstone project penny postcards of texas texas postcards fallen heroes of texas.

Digital collections texana research guides at university of. Texas postcards from collection of 2 million vintage post cards that date back from 1893 to the modern photo chrome era of the late 1970s. Elaine created this virtual collection and maintained it until her illness forced her retirement. Many vintage photographs of texas people, places and things from as early as the 1850s can be found in many of the individual county pages within the txgenweb project. Special thanks to the past txgenweb postcard project coordinators. Postsecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by frank warren in 2005, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Box 70 terrell, tx 75160 supper for 2000 patients postcard of north tx state hospital in terrell. It was founded in 1846 from portions of nacogdoches and fannin counties. The txgenweb project vintage courthouse postcard pages. Thank you, elaine, for donating the postcard collection website to the txgenweb project.

Nov 10, 2015 some of the most beautiful ways we have found to store sets of postcards. Digital collections texas history libguides at university of texas. While conducting research for a novelinprogress about hedda burgemeister and otto koehler, gayle brennan spencer became fascinated and distracted by the stories old postcards have to tell resulting in a series of collages, postcards from san antonio. If you have information on cooke county history we would love for you to share it. Clarksville postcards part of txgenweb postcard collection clarksville. Ask if the child has ever written or received a postcard. Our inventory is sought by collectors of art, real photo photography, history ephemera, antique paper memorabilia and rare old vintage antique postcard collecting. African american history across texas humanities texas. Postcards howdy from dryden texas us 90 between sanderson and del rio. A committee was appointed to finish the papering and other work on the church. Texas postcards a special project of the txgenweb over 4,000 postcards online.

Grimes county wins the txgenweb county of the month award for february 2008. Any view youve seen, any monument youve fallen in love with, can all be added to your postcard with our personalization tool. Selected secrets are then posted on the postsecret website, or used for postsecrets books or museum exhibits. Planting time on a japanese rice farm near houston 19 rice thrashing near houston. After the election i shifted some of my focus to largerscale design projects. Paris is the county seat and is the second largest paris in the world. Postcards panhandle of texas queries research links rootsweb resource page s. The books homepage helps you explore earths biggest bookstore without ever leaving the comfort of your couch. If that is not feasible, zazzle has several postcards that could serve as examples as to what is on the front of a postcard. Of course, these can be used to store photos and greeting cards but since we are a postcard company, that is where our mind always goes.

Ive added one to the texas city memorial page in cemeteries and will add more to the postcard site at txgenweb. This page is part of the usgenweb, dedicated to keeping genealogy and history data free on the internet. Mojo not his real name, was a young man from the bryan, texas area, who early in the 20th century supposedly fell off a train and was killed at mud creek near calvert. Went you onetwo today hand drawn 1908 sent from sulphur springs, tx to avinger, tx. Alongside the placing the author conference we are launching the postcard project to find out more about presentday literary tourism practices. Contributed images these photographs were contributed by visitors to this site. The txgenweb project has a program that allows you to vote for a county in which you feel that the host has given you outstanding assistance, or the resource material has helped you in some way. Will mail with usps postcard rate stamp domestically, or with international forever stamp if mailed overseas. These biographies were compiled from the book, families of falls county unless noted otherwise and as with any book, compiled.

An award winning genealogical resource with searchable databases, free web space, mailing lists, message boards, and more. University of houston libraries historic houston postcards. Many of us will have visited sites associated with nineteenthcentury writers such as dove cottage, jane austens house, the bront parsonage, 84 plymouth grove, 48 doughty street and the keats. Vintage postcard project aunt esthers vintage postcards. Books history and heritage of victoria county, texas, 18241999, vols. San antonio collectible texas postcards for sale ebay. Share a postcard, if possible, with the child that shows all the parts of a postcard. Texas postcards fallen heroes of texas headstone emblems for txgenweb ccs.

If you feel llano co has assisted you, or any other county, please vote for county of your choice here. Without you, grimes county txgenweb would never have won this award. Visit the txgenweb project visit the usgenweb project visit the worldgenweb project. Txgenweb project crosby county bibliographies submitted by robbie giles author. Please note that this is an all volunteer project and that we can use all the. The moore county txgenweb accepts records of all types. Terrell county txgenweb images, photographs, postcards.

Clarksville postcards part of txgenweb postcard collection clarksville funeral home links to neighboring counties. None of the images are for sale, and better larger, higher resolution images are not available as we do not have the actual postcard in our possession. Please feel free to send comments, questions, suggestions, or submissions to the txgenweb postcard coordinator to elaine martin. The german families in calvert had the garten rhien, a tenacre park complete with tennis court, pavilion, horseshoe. Contains over 250,000 pages of personal and archival manuscript collections, 3000 issues of rare historical newspapers and periodicals, and hundreds of rare books.

Vintage postcard project featured this blog pairs the postcard locations we found on our crosscountry driving trip during august and september 2012. Postcard of north tx state hospital in terrell, 1920. Please note that this is an all volunteer project and that we can use all the help we can get. The texas slavery project examines the spread of american slavery into the borderlands between the united. Lamar county, texas genealogy and family history home page. The usps was the only establishment allowed to print postcards, and it held its monopoly until may 19, 1898, when congress passed the private mailing card act which allowed private publishers and printers to produce postcards. For more about the txgenweb project, or more information on volunteering, contact the txgenweb state coordinator, rob yoder. The txgenweb project is an affiliate of the usgenweb project. Terrell state hospital community relations office p. By collecting and hand drawing their personal data and sending it to each other in the form of postcards, they became friends. The postcard project in 2011, i started a project read all the details here to bring back the dying art of sending postcards, cards, and letters through the mail in order to 1 spread joy and good cheer, and. As a part of the txgenweb and the usgenweb projects, this is a noncommercial free access web site for family history and genealogical research. The first sc for the txgenweb, mike basham, appointed trey to be his asc in september, 1997.

Txgenweb project carla clifton, assistant state coordinator, txgenweb project jane keppler. Carla clifton, assistant state coordinator, txgenweb project. My name is christina palmer and i am the county coordinator for this county and i hope that you will find these pages helpful in your search for your ancestors in titus county. At the end of the meeting miss ollie green was given a vote of thanks for her untiring faithfulness. The united states of america 1865present i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. School superintendent resign and held a protracted meeting, bro. We are moving this website to a new location for the time being. With this third recognition, grimes county has now been added to the txgenweb project. After the war, the parishioners realized the little building was becoming weak. Lots of books newspapers victoria advocate 1846present fact zeitung guide aa national gazette aa other victoria college, university of houston victoria public library.