Genealogy

General Resources: Most of these are free sites. A few are commercial sites that offer some free resources.  Rockwall County Library patrons should use HeritageQuest for online detailed census record access.

• Rockwall area obituaries from Rest Haven Funeral Home Notice the link at the bottom for an archive of older obituaries (back to February 2002).
• HeritageQuest Online  through TexShare "History & Genealogy" includes many U.S. Census records! (Ask at the Library circulation desk for remote access instructions.)
• Family Search Through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Association for Gravestone Studies
• Ancestry.com ­ Connecting Families Through the World Wide Web (be cautious: they offer some free info and some fee-based)
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
• Vital Records Information - United States
• Free Social Security Death Index Search
• The Genealogy Home Page
• The USGenWeb Project - Home Page
• National Genealogical Society Home
• Ellis Island Records
• RootsWeb
• Native American Indian Genealogy
• Anillo de Genealogia Hispana Hispanic Genealogy Ring
• Beginners Guide to African American Genealogy

Texas & Local Resources

• Rockwall County Genealogical Society
• Inventory of Rockwall County's Boydstun Cemetery
• Rockwall County Cemeteries from Cemeteries of Texas Project
• Dallas Genealogical Society
• Texas Genealogy Links
• Texas Links at GenealogyLinks.net  (includes a link for Rockwall County)
• Genealogy - Texas State Library
• Texas County Information
• TXGenWeb Rockwall County
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  Page last updated 8/2008.