Kay Boyd is helping to set up a Heritage and History collection at the Manor Public Library. The purpose of this project is educational: to provide and maintain an organization for the study of historical and genealogical records, to collect and preserve these records in accordance with good archival practices, and to make them available for research in the Manor Public Library. If you have newspaper clippings (obituaries, wedding and anniversary announcements, historical events) or family papers or photos of this area, we need your help. Old maps, cemetery listings, church histories, etc. are also needed. Here Kay is showing Manorite Nancy Hibbs Robbins some material in the collection of interest to her.

The area to be covered by the project includes:

Here is a list of indexes that you can read to see what records are already in the Collection. If you find there is a record you would like to see, please contact Kay directly as described below. She will be more than happy to help you.

• 1894-1895 County Directory - A list of those residing in Gregg, Hornsby, Manda, Manor, McNeil, and Merrilltown.
• East Travis County Cemetery Records - Index to inventories of many of the cemeteries in the area including Brown, Duty, Gregg School, Hill, Hunter, J.J. Manor, Jones, Kimbro, Littig, Lockwood, Lund, Manda, Manor City, Prairie Hill, Puckett, Rector, Rogers Hill, Rose Hill and Schiller Cemeteries.
• NEW - East Travis County Photographs - index of personal and public photographs archives
• Manor Anniversary Notices - Index of Anniversary announcements
• Manor Birthdays - A list indexing birthday announcements
• Manor Engagements and Weddings - Index of engagement and wedding announcements
• Manor Family History Names - Index to histories of some the early families that lived and still live in eastern Travis County. These names include Dixon, Duty, Fields, Forehand, Glover, Hill, Houser, Johnson, Lockwood, Lundell, Manor, Newberry, Prinz, Raney, Sellstrom, Sjoberg, Sponberg, Stromberg, Werchan, and Wood.
• Manor Obituaries (1901-Current) - There are almost 500 obituary items, the oldest from 1901, in the history collection at the Manor Library. Some of the older ones are written in Swedish taken from the Posten newspaper. In this notebook on the community, there are also sections with newspaper clippings on weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and personality profiles of citizens in the area.
• Manor Personalities - Index to newspaper articles about Manor personalities
• NEW - Manor Reunions - Index to newspaper accounts of reunions
• NEW - "From the Newspapers" - Newspaper articles - General news and Announcements
• NEW - "Manor Obituaries" - Manor Obituaries
• NEW - "Manor Directory" - Manor Directory - 1945
• NEW - "Manor Schools" - Manor Schools - 1908-9
• NEW - "Manor Students" - Manor Students - 1936

Please contact Kay at (512) 836-7484 or by e-mail mkdb1405@aol.com if you need help, or have any materials to add to the collection. She also welcomes any help you can offer this project.