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Recommended Reference Sites

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Ancestry

Bug Guide

Census

Columbus Texas Bicentennial Website

Chilton Library: Accessed through the TexShare Database. Please contact the library for login information.

Health Behavioral Wellness Council of Greater Colorado Valley resource directory and more

Colorado County Texas GenWeb Project

Duolingo: learn how to speak, read and write in another language

Econ Lowdown: A free resource published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for educators, parents and consumers who want to learn about economics, personal finance, money, banking and the Federal Reserve.

Family Search: The Nesbitt Memorial Library is an affiliate library of Family Search.

Great Sunflower

The Handbook of Texas Online: The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin.

HeritageQuest Online

Internet Archive: Click here for free books and movie downloads

Texas State Library: Immediately start searching multiple Texas library catalogs and other knowledge collections in one sitting.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Primary Source Sets: sets created by Digitial Public Library of America's Educational Advisory Board

Patheos: informative site about different religions.

Procon: a website covering  comprehensive information about controversial topics popular in contemporary discourse.

Social Security

Texas GenWeb Project 

Texas Heritage Online: Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.

Texas Online: The official website for the Great State of Texas and provides instant access to almost 800 state and local government services.

Texas Law Help

Texas Records and Information Locator (TRAIL): TRAIL searches and locates information from over 180 Texas state agency web servers.

Texas State Law Library

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas Treasures from Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Genealogical Society

Texas State Historical Association

Portal to Texas History

Texas General Land Office

Texas State Cemetery Database

Texas Vital Statistics

U.S. National Archives