Alert!

March 12, 2025: Click here to read an important letter from the Library Director.

We are experiencing network disruptions affecting our catalog and Internet. Our Technology Team is actively working to resolve the issue. Check back for updates; we appreciate your patience!

  • Books can still be checked out with an FBCL library card
  • eBooks ARE AVAILABLE on OverDrive/Libby and hoopla; click here for instructions.
  • Overdue fines are waived until the network issue has been resolved
  • Most online resources are now available
  • Not available: Catalog & access to your account, Wall Street Journal, LinkedIn Learning, Hotspots & Launchpads

Alert: University Branch Library

University Branch Library (Sugar Land) will be CLOSED on Friday, March 14, for a scheduled power outage by CenterPoint Energy. 

Microforms

Fort Bend County framed map in the Genealogy & Local History Department
  • Census Schedules for the southeastern U.S., from statehood through 1930
    • Alabama
    • Arkansas
    • Florida
    • Georgia
    • Kentucky
    • Louisiana
    • Mississippi
    • Missouri
    • Oklahoma
    • North Carolina
    • South Carolina
    • Tennessee
    • Texas
    • Virginia
    • West Virginia
  • Soundex indexes, 1880-1920 for Texas only. There is presently no finding aid for the 1930 census.
  • Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics: birth and death indexes
  • Non-current government records and indexes for Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Waller and Wharton counties
  • Military records with indexes (Revolutionary War and Civil War)
    • General Index to Compiled Service Records for the Revolutionary War
    • Revolutionary War Service Records
    • American Revolution War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application files
    • Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Mexican War
    • Index to Confederate Soldiers
    • Texas Confederate Compiled Service Records
    • Confederate Prisoners of War
  • Newspapers (Fort Bend County only, starting with 1911; Brookshire Times 1899-1984; Galveston Daily News 1865-1917; and Telegraph & Texas Register, Houston, Texas 1835-1875)

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