Genealogy
Welcome to the Genealogy Department of the Waco-McLennan
County Library. Our collection includes:
- over 15,000 books
- Census and Soundex
- Family Search (a CD-ROM product from The Church of JesusChrist
of Latter-Day Saints that contains the Ancestral File and
International Genealogical Index)
- Texas County Records on microfilm are available through
Interlibrary Loan.
- Our department also contains 10 microfilm readers, 3 microfiche
readers, 2 microfilm/-fiche copiers, 1 photocopier, and 7
computers with internet access.
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New Database
The Genealogy Division at the Waco-McLennan County Library
has added a new database to help McLennan County's Swedish-Americans
discover their roots -- genline : Swedish Church Records Online
. Currently, this digital image database of Swedish church records from
the 16th-20th century has over 10 million records. Records consist of
birth/baptismal, confirmation, marriage, death/burial, church ledgers
and household examination rolls. Bill Buckner, manager of the Periodicals/Genealogy
Division, states, "By having Genline as a resource, the library is providing
a valuable tool to the Swedish-Americans in the community that will
enable them to discover their past and preserve their heritage."
This commitment to service and heritage is shared by The
Nordic Clubs of Waco (Scandinavian Friends, Forsgard-Olson Vasa Lodge
#757, Forsgard-Olson Heritage Society, and Sons of Norway, Canuteson-Reierson
Lodge #1-660.) who have enthusiastically supported the addition of Genline
to the Library's resources. For more information, call Bill Buckner
at 254/750-5945. The Nordic Clubs of Waco are located at 1028 N. 4th
St., Waco, Texas 254/296-1857.
Waco-McLennan County Library
to Offer Beginner's Genealogy Class
The Waco-McLennan County Library together with the Central
Texas Genealogical Society will sponsor a Beginner's Genealogy Class
on Saturday, June 21, 2008 from 10:30 am- 1:00 pm at the Central Library,
1717 Austin Ave.
The class is free and will cover topics such as how to
use genealogy forms, an introduction to basic records, Internet sources
and research, and a tour and orientation of the Genealogy Division's
collection at the Central Library. The instructor for the class will
be Carol Scarborough of the Central Texas Genealogical Society. For
more information, call Bill Buckner at 750-5945.
McLennan County Cemetery Interest Group
The McLennan County Cemetery Interest Group is an informal
group of citizens interested in the cemeteries and/or burials in McLennan
County, Texas. Our group is a volunteer organization of the Waco-McLennan
County Library-Genealogy Division.
Members include:
- Bill Buckner, Division Manager and other staff members
- Members of the Central Texas Genealogical Society Projects Committee
- Members from the general public.
Anyone interested in helping to preserve cemetery data
for the future is welcome. There is no charge or fee associated with
our group-we are volunteers working to protect McLennan County history.
Our goal is to become the source of information on Waco and McLennan
County cemeteries by providing accurate documentation of cemetery histories
and inventories.
The McLennan County Cemetery Interest Group seeks to provide
a forum for discussion on our area cemeteries, as well as to become
a source of information and record preservation for all McLennan County
cemeteries and burials. Our activities to date include:
- Creating a Master List of McLennan County cemeteries
- Establishing guidelines for inventorying cemeteries
- Creating forms to ensure uniform collection of data
- Inventorying cemeteries in danger of being abandoned and cemeteries
not previously recorded
- Updating cemetery inventories on file at the Library.
- Maintaining a resource file on each identified cemetery.
If you are interested in preserving the historical information
of our cemeteries please join us for a meeting! For more information,
click here: www.TXGenWeb3.org/txmclennan/
FREE FORMS
Our cemetery survey forms may be accessed by clicking
on the link below. Terms of Use: Intended for personal, non-commercial
usage. Please leave copyright statement intact.
Cemetery Inventory
Form
Cemetery Survey Form
Electronic
Genealogy Resources
Ancestry Library edition (ALE): this family history
research databse is the library version of ancestry.com and contains
over 1.2 million records including the 1930 Census. The Library provides
access to this database via six computer terminals within the Genealogy
Division.
HeritageQuest Online: Among the TexShare databases,
HeritageQuest Online provides patrons with searchable genealogy content.
Census images and indexes are provided for various census as well as
access to 25,000 family and local histories.
For additional information on available electronic resources:
visit the Databases section of our web site.
Internet
Genealogy Resources
The following list of Internet sites are provided as a
resource for additional genealogical information.
Disclaimer: The Waco-McLennan County Library System
does not monitor, and has no control over, information accessed through
the Internet and cannot be responsible for its content.
Research
Categories
(Click
on the topic name to access links to helpful web sites)
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