Over at GenealogyWise, in the Texas History Hunters Group,    Barbara Cunningham pointed out that Texas school census records can be a 1890 census substitute.   “In some counties, the County Clerk keeps and maintains the records. In other counties, they are kept by the County Judge,” Barbara said.  [Note for non-Texans: the "County Judge" is not a judicial officer--at least not anymore--but is the  chief executive officer of a county].

I actually have  copies of school census cards for my grandfather’s family who lived in Rockdale, Milam County.  Here’s one for my grand-aunt Myrtle from 1905.

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