Births

Birth Certificates found on Footnotes.com

Marriages

• Dario Torrez to Petra Gusman, July 26, 1919

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Divorces

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Deaths

My name is Jay Odom. I am able to do Texas Death Certificate lookups and copies. It costs $4 per certificate, but alot cheaper than trying to get them from the State Health Dept. and I can get them out within a week or so.

Social Security Death Index

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Biographies

Churches

Cemeteries

African American Cemeteries Online
The oldest and largest African American cemetery transcription site. Please note the new domain (formerly a subdomain of prairiebluff.com).

Tombstones Lost & Found

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Obituaries

Census

1880 Census (Polish Areas)

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HeritageQuest also has records of the census of Karnes County for sale.

Ship's Passenger Lists

Land

Search the Land Grant Collection

Land certificate for Mrs. Isabel Dillman for E.R. Cosby Karnes County 300 Acre Lease Pool

Land Survey Abstract Indices of the Original Land Owners of Texas

National Register of Historic Places

Clason's Guide Map of Texas

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Postmasters

Jim Wheat's Postmasters & Post Offices of Texas, 1861-1930

Military

• War Videos of USS Karnes
  Index of Scenes, Video One, Video Two
• Photos of USS Karnes
• Nationwide Gravesite Locator
• 1890 Texas Union Soldiers
• American Revolutionary War Units
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• List of Civil War Pension Applications
• Confederate Indigent Families
• Karnes County Korean War Casualties
• World War II Honor List of Dead
• Fabian Tom Kotara, Korean War

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Newspapers

• Researching old newspapers
• Karnes County News
• The Countywide - A weekly newspaper serving all of Karnes County
• Karnes Citation, 110 S Market St Karnes City TX 78118-3230, 210-780-3924, Weekly, 2,700
• Kenedy Advance Times, 110 S Market St Karnes City TX 78118-3230, 210-780-3924, Weekly, 2,200

Articles

• Panna Maria - Celebrating the Immigrant Dream
• Preserving "Polonia's Plymouth Rock": Panna Maria, Texas
• The Birthplace of Polish America
• Research in Old Newspapers
• Bluebonnet Days Photo Gallery - April 17, 2004
• Karnes County Sesquicentennial Birthday Celebration in Helena on Feb. 7, 2004
• How Karnes County's Only Train Robber Was Caught
• News from: Karnes County News Vol. 1, No. 1, 1887
• The Daileyville Shooting
• Kenedy Semi-Pro Baseball Team 1921
• The Kenedy Times Historical Edition - Oct 31, 1963
• Newspaper - Kenedy, Texas - Abt. May 1948

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Schools

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