If you have access to a source with information on Kaufman County
and would like to volunteer to do look-ups, please
contact the coordinator.
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Warning! Do not send a look-up request if you are using an auto-reply to your e-mail that requires the sender to fill out a form. Use an e-mail address that can be replied to or you will not receive the response from the volunteer.
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Other places to look for Look-ups
For obituary look-ups, please see the
Look-ups offered by the Kaufman County Library and
Obituary Look-ups Site -- Don't forget to also volunteer for the area you live in!
Instructions for Requesting a Look-up
(this applies to all look-ups EXCEPT those
offered by Kathey Hunt.
In order to be sure your request gets answered, please follow these instructions.
- Click on the look-up volunteer's name to request a look-up in the source they have volunteered for. Please do NOT ask the look-up volunteer to do a look-up in a source they have not volunteered for. This includes do not ask the volunteer to go to the library to do your research for you and do not send your look-up request to the coordinator (she does not have copies of the records and cannot answer the requests).
- Put "Kaufman Co. Look-up" in the subject line of the message.
- On the first line of the message, put the title of the source you are requesting the look-up in. Ask only for a look-up in one (1) specific source (EACH marriage book and EACH cemetery are a separate source; asking for a look-up in "all of the cemeteries" or "all of the marriage records" is NOT acceptable). Remember you must specify which particular source you would like the look-up in.
- Ask only for a look-up for 1 or 2 people (not for all of the people with a specific surname).
- Do NOT ask the look-up volunteer to send photocopies of pages from the book nor for a large amount of information from the book.
- Please do not ask more than one volunteer to do the same look-up for you at the same time.
- Do not submit more than one request at a time (wait for the response from one request before submitting another). Wait for several days before resubmitting the same request; the volunteer may be unable to answer your request immediately. Do not assume your request was lost until you have waited 2 weeks for a reply.
- Please remember that the volunteers have graciously offered to do these look-ups. They are not paid or otherwise obligated to volunteer to do look-ups so please do not take them for granted and remember to let them know you appreciate their help.
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CENSUS LOOK-UPS
Click on the look-up volunteer's name to request a look-up.
Return to the Instructions
for Requesting a Look-up
MARRIAGE LOOK-UPS
Kaufman County Marriages, 1848-1910 are now posted on this site!
Note: the ONLY info available via Marriage Look-ups are the
names of the bride and groom, the date they were married, possibly who
they were married by and which Book the license is recorded in. Parents'
names were NOT recorded on the Kaufman County, TX marriage licenses, so
please do not expect to receive this information when requesting a look-up.
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*After 1874, many of the people who lived in northern Kaufman County went to Rockwall to get married because it was closer than going all the way to Kaufman. If you have not been successful in locating a Kaufman County ancestor's marriage in the Kaufman County Marriages, you may want to ask for a look-up in this source.
PROBATE LOOK-UPS
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Look-up Volunteer |
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Kaufman County Probate 1848-1940
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Kathey Hunt
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Return to the Instructions
for Requesting a Look-up
CEMETERY LOOK-UPS
Nearly all of the cemeteries now have either an enumeration or a
surname listing! See the Kaufman
County, TX cemeteries page for a list (and some enumerations) of cemeteries
in or near Kaufman County. If you do not know which cemetery your
family members were buried in, you should check the enumerations that are
already on-line before asking for a look-up. You can use the search
engine to find out if your surname is listed in any of the pages of
this site (this is real handy when it comes to finding out if they are
listed in any of the enumerations that are already posted).
If you would like to ask for a look-up in
the cemeteries listed in the table, below, please be considerate when asking
the volunteer. Remember you
must specify which cemetery you would like the look-up in
and only ask the volunteer to look up information in the cemetery they
have volunteered for. There is no county-wide index so a request for a look-up of a person in all of the cemeteries in Kaufman County canNOT be answered.
Return to the Instructions
for Requesting a Look-up
(For look-ups in other cemeteries, please see Look-ups
offered by the Kaufman County Library.)
| LOOK-UPS IN OTHER SOURCES |
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VOLUNTEER |
Slave Deeds
"No Land . . . Only Slaves! Vol. 4: Harrison, Hunt & Kaufman Co., TX"
Our books are especially helpful for black history research. These volumes of abstracted deed records include two complete
indexes, one of every slave named and another for all other persons mentioned in
the transaction, such as buyer, seller, witnesses, judges, notaries, etc. If you would like to know more about them you can check our website at
http://slaves.8m.com (please note the "dot" between slaves & 8m)
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Vivian Lehman & Edith Smith
slaves8m@yahoo.com
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| The Men and Women in World War II from Kaufman County |
Doris Pyle Haynes
haynesd@windstream.net
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| "Mercer Colonists" by Gifford White |
Kathey Kelley Hunt
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| "Republic of Texas: Poll Tax Lists for 1846" compiled by Marion Day Mullins |
Kathey Kelley Hunt
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| (Note from Lissa Johnston: Four-Mile is supposedly in Van
Zandt Co. but often listed in Prairieville, which is in Kaufman Co.) |
Return to the Instructions for Requesting a Look-up
TXGenWeb Project's Official Policy on Look-ups
TXGenWeb will not tolerate any copyright violations.
Look-up requests should be limited to one name, or perhaps two if it is
a married couple. Information given will be minimal, for example
if it is a cemetery look-up, the information will be the name of
the cemetery and the dates on the headstone. Please do not ask for
"everybody with X surname" or an entire family group, or for hardcopies
to be mailed; the volunteers have been asked not to comply with such requests.
Our look-ups will extend to searching the book to determine if the
book would be helpful to you in your research. Should the book prove
useful, we can provide the authors address and ordering information.
Please report any links or e-mail addresses found on this page that are no longer working to the coordinator.
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This page was created on March 9, 1999.
Copyright © 1999-2010 by Abby Balderama
Coordinator of the Kaufman County, TXGenWeb Project site
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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