Bell
County Genealogy and History Web Site -
part of the U.S. GenWeb project,
maintained by volunteers, very comprehensive, updated regularly.
Includes information about families and genealogies, cemetery censuses and
photos, federal censuses and historical background. As of August 2001, the
site contained more than 1 gigabyte of information and photos.
Handbook
of Texas -An
"encyclopedia" of all things Texas produced by the Texas State
Historical Association. TSHA also published the 6-volume version of the
Handbook, available in public and academic libraries. Invaluable
resource with an excellent search engine.