Special Collections
| The Special Collections room contains over 8,500 items. Subject areas include Genealogy, the Civil War, Texana, and local history (Palestine and Anderson County). Recent additions to the collection are the Confederate Pension files for every soldier in Anderson County who filed for a confederate pension. Ancestry and other database subscriptions are available. Local newspapers dating to 1857 are available on microfilm as are several years of the late nineteenth century for the Galveston Daily News. Volunteers who have photographed headstones and found death records and obituaries have helped move the Anderson County Cemetery database closer to being ready to post to the library’s web site. This compilation of records which includes directions, GPS coordinates, enumerations, photos, obituaries, and more will prove invaluable to researchers. There is still plenty of work to do and volunteers are always welcome. Genealogical information using Internet resources, maps, city directories and telephone books, and genealogical-historical journals are available for browsing. Microfilm and microfiche readers (including a digital microfilm reader with Internet connectivity) are available. |

