489 pages with 107 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Texas County, Missouri, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 10683 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 47 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1820s2 1830s59 1840s106 1850s2035 1860s1781 1870s1529 1880s1220 1890s2437 1900s1061 1910s447 1920s6 What Cities and Towns are in Texas County, Missouri (and in this book)? Alice, Arroll, Ashley Creek, Bado, Bendavis, Big Creek, Bucyrus, Cabool, Cardinal Acres, Cedar Bluff, Clara, Clear Springs, Dent, Dunn, Dykes, Edanville, Elk Creek, Ellis Prairie, Ellsworth, Eunice, Evening Shade, Fairview, Fowler, Gravel Point (historical), Grogan, Guild, Harlow Ford, Hartshorn, Hattie, Hazleton, Houston, Huggins, Hurst, Kimble, Kinderpost, Ladd, Licking, Lundy, Mahan, Maples, Midvale, Mineral Springs City, Mitchells Corner, Nagle, Nile, Old Success, Oscar, Pine Crest, Plato, Pleasant Ridge, Plum Valley, Prescott, Raftville (historical), Ratcliff Ford, Raymondville, Roby, Roubidoux, Samoa, Sargent, Sherrill, Simmons, Slabtown, Solo, Success, Summersville, Turley, Tyrone, Upton, Vada, Varvol, Venable, Windy Curve, Yukon

This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.