About Us

My name is Gina Heffernan and I am the Temporary Briscoe County Coordinator for The TXGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb® Project is committed to providing FREE genealogical and historical information online to researchers. No one should have to pay for records that are freely available locally, so we're bringing free information to the Internet.

You can join The USGenWeb® Project team in several ways. To adopt an available county, contact the State Coordinator of a state that interests you. You can volunteer to do lookups in records in your home county or in any historical or genealogical books you own. Other opportunties include taking photos of cemeteries, tombstones, courthouses, historical markers, etc, or transcribing records like a census, cemetery, or county records.

About the USGenWeb® Project

"In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to create this page for all states. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for each state page." [TXGenWeb Project].