TXGenWeb, Wise County TX

Sue Tackel and Dr. David Pitts have both been working on these web pages since the late 1990s.

For Help Finding Things or Reporting Errors on These Pages Contact Sue Tackel Sue@WiseCountyTexas.info
For Help With Genealogy or Finding People Contact David Pitts paw281@sbcglobal.net

Wise County Information Some of these pages are updated or corrected nearly every day. This page was last updated Feb 27, 2022
Searcher for this site Type in names to search all of these pages
Birth Information
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
2000-2021	List of Birth Announcements with Year Only (Full announcement from paper on request)	10,170
Current	Wise County Messenger	Their web page has announcements back to 2003
Marriage/Divorce
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)
2000-2021	Wedding Announcements from Local Paper	2,251 with complete text (Pictures for 2011-2021)
1968-2001	Divorce & Marriage Dates & Number of Children	5,904 Divorce records
Census
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
Property
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
Miscellaneous
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 Museum	1880-1910 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
(2018) - We would like help indexing the births, weddings, obituaries and other important articles 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
Many Wise County Family Histories		Old Family Pictures (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
1910-2021	Obituaries From Local Newspapers + Funeral Homes (Now All Indexed Together In One Place)	27,577 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)
1970-2021 some older	Local Obituaries/Funeral Notices Available at the Wise County Heritage Museum	Index of over 31,000 newspaper clippings and funeral notices (many duplicates from different papers).
2022	Wise County Messenger	Recent obituaries from the local newspapers
	Hawkins Funeral Homes (3 funeral homes) Hudson & Torres Funeral Home, Bridgeport	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

Click on the red names of neighboring counties in the Wise County map below to go to those TXGenWeb pages

If you have comments, questions, information to share, or need information, please contact:
Sue Tackel - Sue@WiseCountyTexas.info

Thanks for stopping by. Check us out often as we are at work now on new information to add to the web site.....

Miscellaneous Links From Older Web Pages (Some things are repeated in the links above - Everything is found by this 'searcher')
SOME EARLY WISE CO. FAMILIES	1906 OLD TIMERS REUNION	OLD PICTURES
MYSTERY PICTURES	HUFF FAMILY MASSACRE	PROBATE FILES
WALKER CLAN 1987	WEB PAGE CC BIO	WOODY AND SOME RELATED FAMILIES
BOYD PICTURES & WOODY CABIN	SOME LOCAL AUTHORS	SOME LIST MEMBERS FILES
MISC PICTURES AND REUNIONS	CLASSES OF 1950-60 BRIDGEPORT REUNION	TOWNS
HISTORICAL SITES	WISE FACTS	DEE'S " McGee Pictures"
DEE'S "Ferguson Pictures"	SCHOOLS with many pictures