TXGenWeb 
Wise County, Texas
Sadly,
our Wise County Heritage Museum in Decatur burned on March 18, 2023.
Thousands of artifacts, many records, and over 6,000 books were lost,
but much information was digitized and is still available contact@wisehistory.com
Pictures below (click to make larger) are from the Wise County Messenger,
and the one with the flag was sent in by David Matney
TXGenWeb Project
USGenWeb Project
Texas County List
(Thanks to all who have contributed to these
pages)
Sue Tackel and Dr. David Pitts have both been working on these web pages since
the late 1990s.
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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
For Help With Genealogy or Finding People Contact David Pitts paw281@sbcglobal.net
Wise County
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Searcher for this site Type in names to search all of these pages |
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Birth Information |
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| 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 | |
| 2000-2023 | List
of Birth Announcements with Year Only (Full announcement from paper on request) |
10,500 | |
| Current | Wise County Messenger | Their web page has announcements back to 2003 | |
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Marriage/Divorce |
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| 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) | |
| 2000-2023 | Wedding Announcements from Local Paper | 2,275 with complete text (Pictures for 2011-2023) | |
| 1968-2001 | Divorce & Marriage Dates & Number of Children | 5,904 Divorce records | |
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Census |
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| 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 | |
| 1927-2013 | Annuals/Yearbooks | Wise County High School yearbooks. >16,000 Pages now scanned with most indexed for names | |
| 1893-1965 | Decatur Baptist College (DBC) Yearbooks | >5,500 Yearbook pages and newspaper clippings with index of over 25,000 names | |
| Newspapers and Indexes of Newspapers | |||
| 1910-1975 Most after 1940 | The Bridgeport Index Newspaper | Searchable
PDFs and images of pages 1910-2020 available at the Wise
County Heritage Museum Index of over 49,000 names in these newspapers is online |
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| 1880-2022 | Decatur Newspapers | 1880-1910 pages are
Transcribed at the museum Searchable PDFs and images of the Wise County Messenger (1880-present) + The Decatur News (1893-1934) are available at the museum Index of over 50,000 names in these newspapers is online |
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| 1931-1994 | The Alvord News + Gazette Newspapers | Searchable PDFs and images of pages 1910-2020 available at the Wise County Heritage Museum | |
| 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 | |
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Property |
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| 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 | |
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Miscellaneous & Families |
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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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Old
Family Pictures |
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| 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 | |
| 1800s-2023 | Obituaries From
Local Newspapers + Funeral Homes (Now All Indexed Together In One Place) |
30,194 Images of Newspaper Clippings, PDFs, and Funeral Home Obituaries Alphabetical by Name | |
| 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). | |
| 2024 | 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 | |
Click on the red names of neighboring counties in the Wise County map below to go to those TXGenWeb pages
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Miscellaneous
Links From Older Web Pages |
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| Useful Links for More Information |
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County Clerk,
Blanca Tuma |
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LDS 'Family Search' - MANY Helpful
Records |
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QUERIES - Ask and Answer Questions |
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Gina
Heffernan |
If you have comments, questions, information to share, or need information, please contact:
Sue Tackel - Sue@WiseCountyTexas.info
(click here with message for mail list )
Thanks for stopping by. Check us out often as we are at work now on new information to add to the web site.....