About Deason Hunt

Deason Hunt (aka Netexas) is a genealogist, family historian, genealogy and computer tutor/class instructor, and blogger who lives in Wood County, Texas in the heart of the Northeast Texas area. Born in Rusk County, Texas (and a life-long Texan) he has been conducting genealogical research in and about the area for almost 40 years. Since retiring in 2000 as a high school teacher of journalism, newspaper, yearbook, photography, desktop publishing, history, geography, and English (not all at the same time), he has been a full-time genealogist.

Deason Hunt

He has researched all his major family lines and published three family histories. He has also conducted extensive research into the library resources for genealogy in the Northeast Texas area and has published a research guide for those libraries indicating resources available at each county’s main research libraries and where those resources can be found in other area libraries. He is a member of the East Texas Genealogical Society, the Camp Ford Historical Association, the Holly Lake Genealogy Club, and the Wood County, Texas Genealogical Society currently serving as publications chairman, newsletter editor, webmaster, and vice-president.