The following excerpt is from an extensive and very interesting article about an abandoned paupers’ cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. The article itself is in answer to a question in Paula Allen’s column , found in the November 1, 2009 edition of mysanantonio.com. Back in the 1930s, there was a paupers burial ground just south of Stinson Field . My brother, Nicholas Ely Delgado Jr., who died at birth in 1933, is buried there. There are still some rusted markers lying in the tangled underbrush just south of the field property. I talked to the crew who were constructing a helipad ...

Fabian Martinez passed away Sunday, September 20, 2009 at the age of 28.

Anthony Joseph (Tony) Weisman died suddenly Sept. 29, 2009 in Seguin, Texas.

Family Roots Publishing is offering a 60-hour May Day sale on Dollarhide’s two Census Substitutes & State Census Records books, as well as his New York State Censuses & Substitutes volume. This is the first time we have ever offered a major discount on these books. All three volumes are discounted to $29.66 each. The sale runs through midnight (AKDT) of May 1, 2009. Purchases may be made at the Family Roots Publishing website . Note that postage is $4.90 for the first volume, and $2.50 for each additional volume. Utah residents add sales tax. With every purchase, we will ...

This message is being written in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas. This is the hotel attached to the Little Rock Convention Center, site of the 2009 conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, co-sponsored by the Arkansas Genealogical Society. It is now the morning of the third day of this four-day conference and I must say that it has been a successful event so far.

The first day of the conference consists of presentations aimed primarily to officers of genealogy societies, to professional genealogists, and to those who operate Family History ...

The following data has been posted at The Original Record over the last two weeks. 1675-1857 Rugby School Register This edition was published in 1933: the volume covering 1675 to 1857 contains 6480 entries, based on the original school admission registers, but elaborated with general biographical information wherever the editor was able to do so. The entries for the 17th and early 18th centuries are much less detailed than those for later years. The arrangement of the fullest entries was to give the boy’s full name (surname first, in bold); whether eldest, second, &c., son; ...

Genealogists in the San Antonio area know Matt DeWaelsche as an archivist at the Texana/Genealogy Room at the Central San Antonio Public Library. However, there's another side to him they may not know about. By day, DeWaelsche helps genealogists. But at night, and on weekends too, he is known for something else: he plays he plays championship Scrabble.

DeWaelsche is not an average player. He plays at a level where chess clocks are slapped during play. When he scans a board, he sees every word as an anagram, and memorized word stems light up like neon signs.

DeWaelsche will ...

Over the last week, Family Roots Publishing has shipped all the standing orders for German Map Guide Volume 31. This volume includes a total of 3,723 places - mostly towns, found in the Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hannover (Hanover) RB of Lüneburg and Stade. This is the second of three volumes covering Hannover. Each volumes of the series does the following: Identifies the parish where an ancestor worshipped based on where they lived. Gives the FHL microfilm number for the family’s parish records. Identifies nearly every city, town, and place that included residents. ...

NEW BRAUNFELS — Antonia Espinoza died Wednesday. The 31-year-old never recovered from the coma authorities say Albert Rodriguez Medellin put her in on July 30.

I have an old photo of the Gruene Mercantile. Doe she just want us to eamil <BR>the photos to her? jpeg??<BR>I also have some old school photos but so far no one has been able to tell <BR>me which school they were although I suspect that they were somewhere in the <BR>Goodwin area. However they were taken from inside the school building not <BR>outside sometime around 1908.<BR>Thanks,<BR>Linda Mullen<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Sarah Reveley" ...

Jim Greene, former New FamilySearch (NFS) product manager, recently explained what the Helper function is and why it is present in New FamilySearch.

The helper function was designed to allow all members to participate in new FamilySearch, and not just those who have computers, access to the Internet, or who love technology. There are many many members throughout the world who feel intimidated by the computer, or who have physical constraints that do not allow them to see a computer screen or work with a keyboard. Many others simply cannot ever afford to own a computer or pay ...

First, some random thoughts. At the start of the keynote I was concerned that I"d not seen ANYONE from Ancestry.com. But fifteen minutes in, I saw someone arrive. At lunch I saw a couple more. Their numbers were down from a dozen or so last year. Of course, I was one of those and this year I was with FamilySearch. Actually, I paid my own way last year and Ancestry.com gave me time off to attend.The slides on the CD are sure different than what some presenters showed. It"s amazing how much things can change between the CD deadline and the conference. Some presenters announced decisions made ...

As you folks know, I’m a big fan of digital documents, books, and periodicals online. This last week I finally bought a NewspaperARCHIVE.com subscription. I’ve already found numerous papers that have items about both my family, as well as Patty’s. NewsaperARCHIVE is currently posting newspapers from the 1960s - one of the more interesting periods in my own life - so I’ve been reliving the past while I’ve been compiling this post. The following papers have been posted at NewspaperARCHIVE in the last 6 days. Note that I missed one day in there, so if you see ...

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Can you think of three words that would describe what was important to your mother’s generation? How about your grandmother’s? Go back one more generation and it’s easy because that generation of immigrant women spelled it out: “Küche, Kirche, und Kinder, or “kitchen, church and children”. Written accounts bear this out. We know a lot about women’s lives from Luise Ervendberg. One hundred sixty five years ago on March 21, 1845, the first settlers crossed the Guadalupe, making their way to their first encampment in ...

The following was forwarded to me by Roy Rich: Texas State Archivist Chris La Plante, Secretary of the Society of State Archivists, asks that this be forwarded to as many genelogical list servs as possible and to contact your representatives. Now’s the time to step up for PAHR. Learn More about PAHR Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D, NY) and Congressman John McHugh (R, NY) have just sent a “dear colleague” letter to the members of the House of Representatives inviting them to sign on as original sponsors for the “Preserving the American Historical Records” ...