Gulf Coast State Histories Going Online

Thousands of county and local histories, church histories, registers of individuals, directories of Texas Rangers and biographical dictionaries for the states on the U.S. Gulf Coast are being digitized and added to the free online Historical Books archive from BYU and FamilySearch (Also accessed by visiting FamilySearch.org and selecting Search Records and then Historical Books). This joint project between FamilySearch and the Houston Public Library is targeting books and items published between 1795 and 1923, beginning with Texas records. Some digital publications are already viewable online, but the entire project is expected to take up to five years to complete.

The BYU Family Archives, with over 23,000 books already digitized and online, is one of my favorite sources for free online genealogy and family history books. If you haven't yet checked it out, then I highly recommend that you do so!