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This photo comes from a 19th century Sanders & Fryher Photo album. If you can identify the date, age of the individual or who the person is, please post a remark about it.

I have been a regular reader of The Road Backward blog for quite some time now. The blog focuses on the writers own ancestors and her quest to find them. The posts are very entertaining and informative. Although the writer’s blgo posts focus in on here own family, there is usually some useful tidbit of detective work or resource used which you can aply to your own research.

Stop by and have a look for yourself.

The East Texas Digital Archives is a website you’re going to want to explore if you have ancestors from the East Texas area. There are almost twenty different collections each with it’s own unique treasures. Below are some links to just a few of the many collections;

• Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors
• East Texas Research Center
• Heritage Center of Cherokee County
• Oral History Collection
• Texas Documents at Steen Library
• University Archives

Many of these collections contain digitial images of the original documents as well as a transcription. You might find a civil war letter written by or to your ancetsor or from the unit in which they served. You could find funeral records about one of your relatives.

For researching East Texas ancestors a trip to the East Texas Digital Archives will be well worth the time.

This photo comes from a 19th century Sanders & Fryher Photo album. If you can identify the date, age of the individual or who the person is, please post a remark about it.