The Genealogy Collection of the San Antonio Public Library is housed on the sixth floor of the Central Library.
Complete collection of United States census population schedules from 1790-1930.
Complete slave schedules (1850, 1860).
1890 Union veterans schedules.
Census indices are available in various formats: book, fiche, cd-rom (1790-1880).
Soundex is available for Texas (1880, 1900-1920) and Oklahoma (1900-1910).
The Department has many state and county records, such as wills, deeds, marriages, court records, etc.
Examples of other record groups available are
Territorial Papers of the United States
American State Papers (film)
Papers of the Continental Congress (film)
Selected Class 5 files, British Colonial Record Office (film)
Pennsylvania Archives
Journals of the Congress of the Confederate States of America (fiche)
Tennessee County Records (film)
Missouri Vital Records (Film)
Virginia Vital Records (fiche)
The Department has an extensive collection of military records.
Indices for service records from the American Revolution through the Spanish American War (book and film)
Register of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914 (film)
Hessian Documents of the American Revolution (fiche)
Early American Orderly Books, 1748-1817 (film)
“Civil War Unit Histories” (complete microfiche collection)
Numerous pension indices (book)
Compiled service records for the American Revolution (film)
Compiled service records for Texas units, Mexican War and Civil War (film)
Filby’s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
Germans to America
Italians to America
Migration from the Russian Empire
All available passenger lists and indices into Galveston (film, 1946-1871; 1896-1951)
Passenger lists for New Orleans 1813-1866, 1820-1875 (film)
[Irish] Famine Immigrants, 1846-1851
Dutch Immigrants, 1820-1880
Family histories, which have been donated are arranged by the primary family name. Other family names listed in the title may be found using the library’s on-line catalogue.
The Department receives over 425 current titles and several family newsletters. It maintains numerous defunct titles. Format (paper, fiche, microfilm) varies.
Various indices are also available-PERSI, PGAI, and Jacobus’Notable ItemsThe following are a selection of book and film titles that don’t necessarily fit into the above categories but are of special note.
Draper Manuscript Collection (film)
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War (selected sets) (film)
Roster of Confederate Soldiers
Roster of Union Soldiers
South Carolina Archives Index (film)
Army Register (an almost complete set, to 1972)
Five Civilized Tribes Enrollment Cards (film)
Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1948
The American Slave (WPA narratives)
Spanish Archives of New Mexico (II) 1621-1821 (film)
California death index, 1905-1939