Plano-Specific Resources
Plano/Collin County Digital Image Collection
Plano History Timeline
Plano Star Courier Name Indexes - by Year
Historic Streets of Plano - a list showing current names, old names, and alternate names of streets.
Plano City Council Minutes Index - by Name. 1891-1899
Plano City Council Meeting Abstracts - by page. 1891-1899
Collin-County Resources
Cemeteries of Collin County
Collin County telephone directories: index of our in-library holdings
Collin County school yearbooks: index of our in-library holdings
Databases
Ancestry Library Edition (available in-library only)
Dallas Morning News Historical Archives
Fold3 (formerly footnote.com - Log in through EBSCOhost)
JSTOR - scholarly journals (available in-library only)
TexShare Databases (including HeritageQuest Online and Sanborn Maps)
In-Library Resources
Census Records
GLHTA has the complete U.S. Federal Census for Texas from 1850 - 1930 and the U.S. Federal Census for all states from 1790 – 1850 and coverage for most states outside of New England from 1850-1930.
County, State, & Federal Records
Many sources are available in microform and print including county and state histories, as well as abstracts of records such as marriages and other vital records, wills, deeds, court minutes, cemetery and church records, and colonial collections.
Military Records & Passenger Lists
Indexes to some of the military records and passenger lists are available on CD-ROM and some are available through book format. In addition, Footnote.com and Ancestry Library Edition have many indexes and original images available via our library databases.
Family Histories
The family history section is arranged alphabetically by the primary family. This section is located in the call number area of 929.2. All family histories are donated, and new ones are welcomed.
Vertical File and Map File
The vertical file consists of miscellaneous papers of genealogical interest arranged in alphabetical order. One cabinet is arranged by subject and another contains family information by surname. Many maps from throughout Texas and other states are located in the map case.
Walter B. Wilson Papers, 1894 - 1941
GLHTA owns the microfilm of original Walter B. Wilson papers located at The Center for American History and The University of Texas at Austin. Walter B. Wilson was one of the owners and editors of the McKinney Daily Courier-Gazette and the McKinney Weekly Democrat-Gazette. He compiled 87 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and wrote eight diaries covering 43 years. His collection of papers contributed significantly to the history of Collin County. The papers include correspondence, miscellaneous papers, diaries, his scrapbooks, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, and Collin County scrapbooks.