LaDarla Keith started these pages back in the
beginning of TXGenWeb in 1996 For Help Finding Things
or Reporting Errors on These Pages Contact Sue Tackel Sue@WiseCountyTexas.info Wise County
Information Searcher
for this site Type in names to search all of
these pages Birth Information Marriage/Divorce Census Property Miscellaneous (2018) - We would
like help indexing the births, weddings, obituaries and other important
articles Old
Family Pictures
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on the red names of neighboring counties in the Wise County map below to go to those TXGenWeb pages
Miscellaneous
Links From Older Web Pages
Wise County Historical
Society (Heritage Museum) County Clerk, Sherry Lemon LDS 'Family Search' - MANY Helpful
Records QUERIES Gina
Heffernan
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TXGenWeb
Wise County, Texas
TXGenWeb Project
USGenWeb Project
Texas County List
(Thanks to all who have contributed to these
pages)
She always believed that genealogy was about helping others and
sharing everything freely
(Click here to read about her and her legacy)
Sue Tackel has over 10 years as County Coordinator --- Dr. David Pitts
is County Co-Coordinator and has been a contributor from the
beginning.
For Help With Genealogy or Finding People Contact David Pitts paw281@sbcglobal.net
Some of these
pages are updated or corrected nearly every day.
This page was last updated Jan 15, 2021
1864-1933
Recorded Births & Birth Certificates
Data for 19,202 with 9,500
birth certificates online
1926-1939
Recorded
Births Giving Parents
Data for
4,221 births
1910-1999
Births
& Birthdays from the 'Bridgeport Index'
Images of
3,846 newspaper clippings
1926-1949
Recorded Births Giving Parents
(Some of these years are now online-See Above)
7,964
This data is no longer
online because of issues with identity theft. Only births over 75 are
public record. Click to
request
1950-1995
Recorded Births Giving Only Name &
Date
11,729
2000-2020
List
of Birth Announcements with Year Only
(Full announcement from paper on request)9,918
Current
Wise
County Messenger
Their web page has
announcements back to 2003
1881-1945
Bride & Groom & Date of Marriage
14,976 Listings
1966-2001
Bride
& Groom & Date of Marriage
10,527 Listings
1910-1975
Wedding
+ Anniversary Clippings from the 'Bridgeport Index'
3,146 on list
of brides and grooms - images of newspaper clippings
1976-1999
Wedding
+ Anniversary Clippings from the 'Bridgeport Index'
3,408 on list
of brides and grooms (images of clippings-most have pictures)
2000-2020
Wedding
Announcements from Local Paper
2,243 with complete text
(Pictures for 2011-2020)
1968-2001
Divorce
& Marriage Dates & Number of Children
5,904 Divorce
records
1860-1930
Images
of Actual Census Pages
LARGE images of all year's
pages
1860
All
of Wise County Transcribed with Additional Information
3,034 names
with index
1870-1910
Indexes
of Last Names Only
We are working on complete
transcriptions
1900
Southwest Corner
and East Side of County Transcribed & Indexed
3,294 Names
1910
Only
Southwest Corner of County Transcribed & Indexed
1,967 Names
1920
All
of Wise County Transcribed & Indexed
23,117 Names
1930
All
of Wise County Transcribed & Indexed
19,202 Names (population was
less)
1940
All
of Wise County Transcribed & Indexed
19,406 Names
with active links to images of original handwritten census pages.
Schools
& Yearbooks
1800s-1970
Old
School Pictures
Many pictures
of school buildings and class pictures
1902-1970
Annuals/Yearbooks
>5,000
Pages now scanned and indexed
1893-1965
Decatur
Baptist College (DBC) Yearbooks
>5,500
Yearbook pages and newspaper clippings with index of over 25,000 names
Military
Information
1861-1865
Civil
War Veterans Buried in Wise County
>500 With Information
about Service
1861-1865
Confederate
Pension Applications
571 on List of Applications
for Wise County
1914-1918
World
War I Discharge Papers
477 Images Online
1940-1945
Lost
Battalion Memorial
Listing of Members Mustered
at Jacksboro
1958
Air Crash Over Bridgeport
18 Servicemen Killed
1855-1984
Wise
County Land Grants
>2,000 List with Names
and Dates
1850's-1897
Indexes
of Wise County Recorded Deeds
441 Images of
Index Pages
1900's
Probate
Records
5,376 on List of Estates
1887-1889
Wise
County Voter Registration
List of 300
Voters Giving Precinct, Where They Came From, and Length of
Residence
1898-1913
Wise
County Petitions for Naturalization
Only a few.
Sent in by David Pitts and also by Patti Gillespie
1910-1975 Most after 1940
The
Bridgeport Index
Newspaper
17,814 Images of
Whole Pages
Online-
With Indexes of Names
1880-2016
The
Wise County Messenger & Decatur News
Available at the Wise County Heritage Museum1880-1910 pages are
Transcribed at the Museum
1880-1969 pages are Digitized at the Museum
1880-2016 papers are on Microfilm at the Museum
Click Here for an Index of some Names
in these old papers at the museum .
Click here to learn about volunteering for
this project.
1907-1912
Medical Licenses Filed in Wise County
75 Images Online
1910-1999
Family
Reunion and Family History Articles from the 'Bridgeport Index'
700 Images of
Newspaper Articles
(Please send in if you would like yours
posted)
Cemeteries
1850's-2019
Headstone
Pictures & Information
>30,000
Headstones, >40,000 headstone pictures
2002/2019
Cemetery
Location & Information
101 Cemeteries
with maps, pictures and layout
Civil
War Veterans Buried in Wise County
List of Civil
War Vets buried in each cemetery
2000-2015
Cemetery
Survey Methods
Steps and
materials we use
Death
Records
1903-1966
Death
Certificates
7,904 Certificates Online
1915-2001
Funeral
Home Records
>19,000 Images Online
1910-2020
Obituaries From
Local Newspapers + Funeral Homes
(Now All Indexed Together
In One Place)25,984
Images
of Newspaper Clippings and Funeral Home Obituaries Alphabetical by Name
2000-2018
Obituaries
From The Wise County Messenger
10,065
Complete
Text By Year Online (Pictures for 2004-2018)
1970-2020
some olderLocal
Obituaries/Funeral Notices
Available at the Wise County Heritage MuseumIndex of over
31,000 newspaper clippings and funeral notices (many duplicates from
different papers).
2021
Wise
County Messenger
Recent
obituaries from the local newspapers
Hawkins
Funeral Homes (3 funeral homes)
Recent
obituaries from the local funeral homes
1903-1939
Recorded
Deaths
3,724 on List
1964-1999
Recorded
Deaths
5,704 on List
Things
we have about Neighboring
Counties
Montague
New
Harp Cemetery
290 Listed with Headstone
Pictures Available for Email
Montague
Lake
Valley Cemetery
20 Pictures
of headstones
(Some things are repeated in
the links above - Everything
is found by this 'searcher')
Useful
Links for More Information
P.O. Box 359
Decatur, Texas 76234
940-627-3351, 940-627-2697 (Fax)
countyclerk@co.wise.tx.us
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_STATES
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TXGenWeb State Coordinator (Email
Contact)
Sue Tackel - Sue@WiseCountyTexas.info