Snyder Community
Hale County, Texas
Research
Repositories and Archives
Mennonite Church USA Archives- Goshen, Indiana
When I first visited the Mennonite Church USA Archives in Goshen, Indiana, I was quite impressed with how easy it was to access the holdings. After signing in at the office and stating my research objectives, I was shown how to request materials. I was able to set up my computer and scanner at a table in the small workroom and sort through the boxes of papers I had identified as interesting. Each time I have returned to the archives, I have found the archivist Dennis Stoesz and other staff members to be quite helpful.
Read the archive's policy on "Access and Reproduction of Archival Materials" and see a guide to the collections at the Mennonite Church USA Historical Committee's web site, www.mcusa-archives.org.
One extremely helpful service that has been and continues to be provided by volunteers is the transcription of published Mennonite and Amish obituaries. These are available at the web site www.mcusa-archives.org/MennObits/index.html.
The archives are located on the campus of Goshen College, at
1700 S. Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526.
Hale County (Texas) Clerk's Office, Plainview, Texas
The office is located in Room 140 of the Hale County Court House, 500 Broadway St., Plainview, Texas. (Mailing address, P. O. Box 710, Plainview, TX 79072-8050; Telephone: (806) 291-5261)
The staff members in the clerk's office were friendly and helpful to me each time I did research there. Of course, they do not conduct research, but they directed me to appropriate indices and records for marriages, births, deaths, deeds, and court proceedings.
Llano Estacado Museum, Plainview, Texas
Housed in the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Regional Heritage Center in the northeast corner of the Wayland Baptist University campus in Plainview, Texas, the museum presents regional history. See the museum's page at the WBU web site.
Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, Texas
Plainview's public library, at 825 Austin Street, houses a local history and genealogical collection and serves as the meeting place for the Hi-Plains Genealogical Society.
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2006, 2007, 2008 Bonnie Snyder Smith