Episodes
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Lone Star Family Trails - Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum
Are you unfamiliar with the history of the Texas Rangers throughout the years? Are you wondering why this repository is a must for anyone with a Texas Ranger Relative? Do you need additional information for your applicaiton for the TxSGS Texas Ranger Certificate? Then this podcast is one you…
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Lone Star Family Trails - Dallas Jewish Historical Society
The goal of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society is "to preserve and protect collections of written, visual, and audible materials thaat documen the history of the Dallas Jewish Community." (website https://djhs.org/#). With information available online and in-person, they hold cemetery...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Digital PV Panther Project
The Digital PV Panther Project: Reclaiming Black Rural History Through Archival Justice, was formed in 2022 by Prairie View A&M University. Their mission is to "Eliminate historical silences through digital storytelling and prevent the erasure of African American history through historic...
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Lone Star Family Trails - The Portal to Texas History
The Portal to Texas History was first introduced in our podcast in August 2022. We are back now learning about the updates that are happening. Today they have expanded to over 2,500,000 total items containing about 23,000,000 files. They typically see 1 million users each month. The partners have...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Galveston & Texas History Center
Do you have someone who came to Texas through Galveston? Or, do yo have smoeone who lived in Galveston after statehood? Then this is the place to visit! Kaitlin Eckmann, the archivist for the Galveston & Texas History Center did a wonderful job talking about the resources for genealogists and...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Special Podcast for 2025 TxSGS Family History Conference: Speakers Ari Wilkins and Andrew Redfern
This special podcast includes interviews of each of the 10 speakers for TxSGS Live! days (November 7-8) for the 2025 TxSGS Family History Conference "Deep[ in the Heart Discovering Family Roots." This episode includes Ari Wilkins and Andrew Redfern. The speakers were asked about what their talk...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Special Podcast for 2025 Family History Conference: Speakers Deborah A. Abbott and Craig R. Scott
This special pcast includes intereview of each of the 10 speakers for TxSGS Live! days (November 7-8) for the 2025 TxSGS Family History Conference "Deep the Heart Discovering Family Roots." This episode includes Deborah A. Abbott and Craig R. Scott. The speakers are asked about what their talk...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Special Podcast for 2025 Family History Conference: Diana Elder and Diane Richard
This special podcast includes interview of each of the 10 speakers for TxSGS Live! days (November 7-8) for the 2025 TxSGS Family History Conference "Deep in the Heart Discovering Family Roots." This episode includes Diana Elder and Diane Richard. The speakers are asked about what their talk...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Special Podcast for 2025 Family History Conference: J. Mark Lowe and Kelvin Meyers
This special podcast includes interview of each of the 10 speakers for TxSGS Live! days (November 7-8) for the 2025 TxSGS Family History Conference "Deep in the Heart Discovering Family Roots." This episode includdes J. Mark Lowe and Kelvin Meyers. The speakesr are asked about what their talk...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Special Podcast - Speakers for 2025 Family History Conference: Julia A. Anderson and Katy Rowe-Schurwanz
This special podcast includes interviews of two of the 10 speakers for TxSGS Live! days (November 7-8) for the 2025 TxSGS Family History Conference "Deep in the Heart Discovering Family Roots." This session includes Julia A. Anderson and Katy Rowe-Schurwanz. The speakers were asked about what…
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Lone Star Family Trails - Trammel's Trace the First Road to Texas from the North
This was a special edition podcast, interviewing the author, Garyy Pinkerton of Trammel's Trace The First Road To Texas From the North. Although the book was published in 2015, it continues to garner interest amongst historians, genealogists and East Texas history buffs interested in this first...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Harrison County Historial Museum and Inez Hatley Hughes Historical Research Center
This episode gives insight into the Harrison County Historical Museum and the Inez Hatley Hughes Historical Research Center located in Marshall TX. It provides essential insights into the region's rich historical narrative, facilitating education and research for historians, genealogists and the...
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Lone Star Family Trails - TxSGS Live! 2024 Speakers and Annual Conference Information
This episode is designed to offer the audience a glimpse of the topics and speakers that are schedule for November 1-2, as part of TxSGS Live!, an integral piece of the 2024 TxSGS Annual Conference: Navigating Your Family Tree. Each speaker has been interviewed, learning about the title of their...
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Lone Star Family Trails - George Memorial Library: Genealogy & Local History Department
The Genealogy and Local History Department of Fort Bend County Libraries offers a wide array of information for those interested in the southeastern United States and surrounding Areas to Fort Bend. As part of the George Memorial Library and Rgional Historical Resource Depository (RHRD) the...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The Archives and Information ervices Division (ARIS) of the Texas Sate Library and Archives Comission preserves documents and important records of Texas. They have over 200 million pages of archival documents in their collection, but only about 10 million are available digitally. So, this library...
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Lone Star Family Trails - The National Archives at Ft. Worth, Texas
The National Archives located at Ft. Worth, TX holds records created by Federal agencies and courts encompassing the states of Arkansas, Louisana, Oklahoma and Texas. Jenny Sweeney, Archivist, gave a sens of the records that could be found in Ft.Worth for genealogists and historians.
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Lone Star Family Trails - East Texas Research Center
The East Texas Research Center is Located in theh Ralph W. Steen Library on the Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches Texas. Their mission is to preserve hisotry through donations of manuscript materials, photographs, books and other items. These are then made avilable to researchers…
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Lone Star Family Trails - Genealogy Center of the Waco-McLennan County Library
This podcast focuses on a smaller local library, the West Waco-McLennan County Library & Genenalogy Center that boasts a collection over 34,000 items, covering 34 states with a strong emphasis on Texas and the Sourthesatern United States. In addition, the center's collection includes published...
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Lone Star Family Trails - The Texas Heritage Musuem at Hill College
The Texas Heritage Museum has three separate divisions, the Texas Heritage Museum Galleries & Collection, the Historical REsearch Center, and the Hill College Press. Dean John Verslius announced that the Texas Heritage Mseum just received accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Dallas Public Library
Dallas is home to one of the Top 10 Public Libraries in the United States for genealogy research, according to Family Tree Magazine. That library is the Dallas Public Library, specifically the Genealogy & History Division, the topic of this month's podcast. Ari Wilkins who serves as a public...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Franklin County Genealogical Society
At 110 East Main Street in Mt. Vernon, Texas, as part of the city square, the Franklin County Genealogical Society (FCGS) has two store fronts. One i s devoted to meeting space (The Crescent Building); the other becomes the treasure trove of information for any genealogist. This second storefront...
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Lone Star Family Trails - African American History Research Center at the Gregory School
The African American History Research Center is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history and culture of African Americans. It sits in the former elementary school building, The Gregory School, in the 4th Ward of Houston. The school includes a restored classroom, as well as several…
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Lone Star Family Trails - Texas Institute of Genealogical Research
This episode introduces the listeners to the seven (7) courses that re being held during the Texas Institute for Genealogical Research (TIGR) being held from June 12 - 16, 2023. Kelvin Myers discusses the courses and the instructors, and offers information on registration which is currently open.
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Lone Star Family Trails - The Texas General Land Office
In this interview with James Harkins, the director of public services for the Texas General Land Office, the wonderful history that is held by the Texas General Land Office, containing 45,000 maps and 35 million documents is highlighted. The maps become the finding aids for many of the land...
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Lone Star Family Trails - HPL - Family History Library at the Clayton Library Campus
This episode introduces the listener to the collection at the Family History Research Center at the Clayton Library Campus, part of the Houston Public Library System. Clayton holds an international collection of Family history research including books microfilm, and online sources. Their typical...
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Lone Star Family Trails - Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Founded in 2004, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is working to discover preserve, and provide access to the community about the history of Texas' film. The collection includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television and corporate productions, to name just a few....
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Lone Star Family Trails - Texas Baptist Historical Collection
The Texas Baptist Historical Collection located in Waco, Texas is featured during this podcast. Their goal, as presented on their website is "collecting, preserving and communicating the history of Baptists in Texas." Alan LeFever, the director of the Texas Baptist Collection was interviewed and...
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Lone Star Family Trails - The Portal to Texas History
Episode #104 - This episode features The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton. Jae Magnum is the Program Development Librarian and works directly with The Portal to Texas History and he was interviewed by Randy Whited. The Portal to Texas History includes not...
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Lone Star Family Trails - The Southwest Collection at Texas Tech
Episode 103 - This episode features the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Ron Barnett, our host for the month, interviewed Dr. Monte L. Monroe, the archivist for the Collection. As an archivist, Dr. Monroe works to extend their collection to include manuscripts of family...
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Lone Star Family Trails - The San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society
Episode #102 - This episode features the San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society and the library that they operate. The society was chartered in 1959. Their library contains more than 15,000 books and close to 700 maps as well as a multitude of online resources that you can use when...
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Texas Collection at Baylor University
This episode features the Texas Collection and University Archives at Baylor University in Waco. Ron Barnett, our host for the month, interviewed Amie Oliver, the interim director of the Texas Collection. Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2023, this large privately-held collection is used by...
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