Join or Renew your CTGS Membership!
Benefits of Membership
Attendance at monthly programs, Library noon Brown Bag lunch presentations and annual Genealogy Lock-In, beginner's classes, and other special events throughout the year with engaging and knowledgeable speakers.
Receive a print or digital subscription to our award-winning quarterly journal, Heart of Texas Records. Members also are able to browse back issues of the quarterly in the Members Only section of the website.
Access to the Members Only section of the website, ctgs.org, which includes over 60,000 pages of genealogical listings.
- Heart of Texas Records quarterly publication (1958 - current)
- McLennan County, Texas, Cemetery books (out of print)
- McLennan County, Texas, Marriage books (out of print)
- Program handouts from CTGS-hosted programs (with permission)
Receive email alerts about upcoming events.
Add the surnames you are researching to the Surname List to help members reach others researching the same surnames.
Be involved with promoting genealogy through volunteer projects.
Network with other genealogists and form friendships with area researchers.
Support the Genealogy Center of the Waco-McLennan County Library which houses over 25,000 books and manuscripts, vital records, family histories, cemetery records, and census records as well as over 10,000 rolls of microfilm and microfiche.
What's Behind the "Members Only" Curtain?
The Members Only portion of this website is home to lots of interesting and helpful data. Join CTGS at a single membership of $25 to access these extensive online resources:
- CTGS Quarterlies and Bulletins- 1958 to current. Both the issues and a searchable topical index are available online.
- Cemetery Records - 26 volumes
- Funeral Home Records -
Boykins Funeral Home – Abstract from 30 volumes from 1920-1991
Fall & Puckett Funeral Home – 34 books from 1892-1912
Fall Funeral Home – 7 books from 1912-1917
Puckett Funeral Home – 25 books from 1912-1931
JC Stephenson Funeral Home – 2 books from 1895-1896
McLennan County Marriage Book 1 - 1850-1870
McLennan County Marriage Book 2 - 1871-1892
(Also includes short bios of many judges and ministers, history of the churches as they were being founded and names of founding members and leaders in those churches)
- Early Waco Obituaries - 1874-1908
- Katy Railroad Cards- This fascinating reference contains the personnel cards of the warden shop of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (M-K-T or Katy) Railroad in Bellmead, Texas from the 1920's through the 1940's.
- Index to 1870 & 1910 Census for McLennan County – 4 volumes
- Index to Early McLennan County Deaths
- Program handouts from CTGS programs (with permission) [coming soon]
Central Texas Genealogical Society, Inc.
c/o West Waco Library and Genealogy Center
5301 Bosque Blvd, #275
Waco, Texas 76710
