With the purpose of sharing ideas and methods in family research, the society collects information on Nacogdoches County and surrounding areas to compile and preserve. The collection includes minutes, yearbooks, membership directories, scrapbooks, financial records, semi-annual publications, and miscellaneous papers.

The journal shows purchases made by the company. Newspaper clippings relating to actor Errol Flynn have been pasted on some of the pages

Original handwritten minutes of board and committee meetings, typed transcript of meeting minutes, program for dedication of addition, correspondence, newspaper articles and photos.

These papers include the Nacogdoches Rotary Club's programs (Rotary Thunder) for the years 1945-2017. The collection also includes the Rotary Club's directory for the years 1982-1986, the constitution and by-laws of the Rotary Club, both of which were adopted on July 23, 1976.

These volumes, in addition to the minutes of Board meetings, include the Bylaws of the Corporation of Nacogdoches for April, 1851. Also included in volume 2 are the Minutes of the Nacogdoches Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria for 1855-1858

Six volumes 1907-1975, of minute books of the Board of Directors

This collection contains the minutes of the meetings of the Club.

The ledger has accounts of customers at the store and includes prices of cigars, crackers, calico, wine and other items. It is bound with Richard Parmalee's District Clerk's fee book (1839-1850).

The original daybook contains the names and accounts of hotel guests and Nacogdoches citizens who took meals or lodging there from 1854 to 1858. Also contained in the volume is what appears to be a county record of fees for court cases, 1877-1878. A photocopy of the daybook is also present.

There are three ledgers 1914-1917, 1918-1920, and 1921-1927 from Dr. W. A. Ramsey's office.

Papers of a former Nacogdoches County, Texas, attorney regarding warranty deeds, execution of wills, deeds of sale, deeds of trust, oil and gas leases, divorces, quit claim deeds, promissory notes, fire insurance policy, field notes and vendors lien notes

The church register list members from 1871 to 1966. Also included are lists of the church's pastors, 1889-1966, infant baptisms from 1889, marriages performed from 1871, a Trustees report for church property in 1936, and a Board of Trustees report on church property for October 21, 1963.

This collection consists of nine crayon 16 x 20 portraits of 19th century Tyler County, Texas County and District Court judges. All the portraits were done by Anderson Portrait and Frame Co., Elm Street, Dallas, Texas between June and October 1913.