Original question was posted Feb 2004. Answers since then have included several good ones – without contact information. May I chime in, please, for the benefit of “the newbie” or the person unfamiliar with Texas research.

“Liberty City Library has a genealogy section”: Liberty Municipal Library at1710 Sam Houston St, Liberty TX 77575-4796. (936) 336-8901 .http://recordsproject.com/county/texas/liberty.asp

“Additionally, resources are available at the Sam Houston Regional Archives in Liberty.” This would be the Sam Houston Regional Library & Research Center (Texas State Library and Archives) at 650 FM 1011, Liberty TX 77575. (936) 336-8821
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/shc/

“and Wallisville Heritage Park in Chambers County.” Wallisville Heritage Park & Museum at 20136 Interstate 10, Wallisville TX 77597. (409) 389-2252 http://www.co.chambers.tx.us/tourism/heritagepark.html Note that among other items they have the Negatives and prints from "The Liberty Gazette" newspaper

”One of the great genealogical libraries in the country is in Houston - Clayton Genealogical Library and Research Center.” ** Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research (part of the Houston Public Library System, housed on its own two-city block, multiple building complex). http://www.houstonlibrary.org/clayton Check in as well with the Clayton Library Friends at http://www.claytonlibraryfriends.org/ The HPL has other special collections division of interest to genealogists. http://www.houstonlibrary.org/

“The Austin Memorial Library in Cleveland, Liberty, TX has a lot of genealogy information available.” 220 South Bonham Ave, Cleveland TX 77327-4591 (281) 592-3920. http://www.austinmemlib.org/

“ Also the Conroe Public Library in Conroe, Montgomery, TX has a large room for Genealogy research with lots of books, microfilm and plenty of microfilm readers. They have a lot of information on Liberty, Polk, San Jacinto and Montgomery Counties as well as Texas and all other states.” http://www.countylibrary.org/cen.htm - Genealogy: http://www.countylibrary.org/gen.htm


“Tyrrell Historical Library in Beaumont Texas is a great library as well. They too have a lot of records for all that area. As well as other state records.” 695 N Pearl St, Beaumont TX 77701. (409) 833-2759 http://www.beaumontlibrary.org/tyrrell_historical_library.ht...

One not mentioned but in the general area is the Baytown Genealogy Society Library, located at 5203 Decker Dr, Baytown, 77520-1422. (281) 424-8388 Contact president, Jim Winston at piper965@aol.com for hours.

Trevia Wooster Beverly
Houston, Texas
treviawbeverly@comcast.net