Research & Sources
One search box for everything on this website: articles and sources, burial records, marriage records, cemeteries, and the index to The Brazos Genealogist.
Type a name, place, or topic (at least 2 letters). Results come from every collection on this site.
How Searching Works Here
The box above searches every collection on the site in one pass: the articles and source listings, the cemetery pages, burial records, marriage records, and the index to The Brazos Genealogist. Results are grouped by collection, so you can see at a glance where a name turns up. Leave "Where to search" on Everything for the widest net.
If you only want, say, burial records, use the "Where to search" menu. A single-collection search shows more results at once, and the link beside each collection heading takes you to that collection's own page with its extra filters.
Type one or more words and every word must appear in the entry, in any order. Capitals and punctuation do not matter. Put a phrase in "quotation marks" to match those words together, such as "Texas A&M". Spelling varied a great deal in old records, so also try a shorter piece of the name, such as Schaf instead of Schaffer.
The full text of the articles on this site is searched, so a name buried deep in a long article will still turn up here. Open the article and use Ctrl-F (PC) or ⌘-F (Mac) to jump to every place the name appears on that page.
The burial and marriage records are large databases with extra tools, such as browsing one cemetery or one marriage book. Use the site-wide search to find out whether a name is there, then follow the link to the full record page for the details.
Not sure what to look for? Browse the Research & Sources page by topic, the Cemeteries of Brazos County, the Brazos Genealogist issue and surname indexes, or the Reference Desk. If you can't find it, ask us on the Message Board.
