Library of Genealogy and Local History

County Courthouse Annex, Suite 104 (East End of Building)
​P O Box 1388
Canton, Texas  75103
​903-567-5012
Email:  vanzandtgensoc@gmail.com

Library  Hours
Monday through Friday:  9 AM to 4 PM                                                 Closed Sunday and Holidays
Saturday:  9 AM to 1 PM                                                                         

Please call before making a long trip as there are some unforeseen circumstances that call for us being closed from time to time. Regular Society Meetings are held in the main County Library Buchanan Room on the fourth Saturday of the month except for December.  Meetings are at 2 PM, with a speaker and refreshments.  You don't have to be a member to attend.

2020 Board Members
Sherrie Archer, President; Ellen Wheeler, 1st Vice-president; Imogene Kirkpatrick, 2nd Vice-president; Sarah Barnett, Treasurer; Cindy Cooper, Recording Secretary; Sylvia Barbee, Corresponding Secretary; Suzie Bass, Public Relations; Tammy Garrett, Webmaster; Jan Crow, Quarterly Editor; Sandra Jones, Director-at-Large; and Tom Tyler, Director-at-Large.

COMING  EVENTS

Van Zandt County Genealogical Society Meetings
  • February Meeting -- Feb 22th
            DAR George Washington Tea
            remembrance of him and his birthday
  • March Meeting -- March 28th
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Location: Van Zandt County Library, Buchanan Room
at 2pm ------ ALL WELCOME
Other Genealogical Happenings:
  • March 14th--Genealogy Workshop at Buchanan Room in library 8:30 registration til about 2pm
  • Friends of Library Meetings 2nd Thursday @ 6pm at Buchanan Room                                                                 March 12th Program --New London School Explosion 
  • 20th Annual Family History Fair-- Tyler, Texas​       April 11, 2020 -- Free and open to public
Van Zandt County Courthouse Annex

Our Building

We are inside the first door on left side of building, up the steps .
​ The Library offers four computers with internet access, Ancestry Library edition, History Geo, newspapers online, microfilm of county newspapers, marriages licenses,  various other county records, and microfilm Census records (if you like researching the old-fashioned way).  We offer quite a few books relating to Van Zandt County specifically, and books of other Texas counties as well as other states.  We are a great little library for genealogy research.

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vzcgs.org
​and
rootsweb.ancestry.com/
​~txvzcgs/vzgs.htm
9035675012
vanzandtgensoc@gmail.com​

Useful Links

Texas Historical Commission               www.thc.texas.gov/
Texas State Genealogical Society                www.txsgs.org/
East Texas Genealogical Society          www.etgs.org/​
​Texas State Library and Archives Commission       www.tsl.texas.gov/arc                      
The Portal to Texas History     texashistory.unt.edu/