Finally! After years of waiting while other regions were finished, Family Roots Publishing is printing volumes for genealogists doing research in Alsace-Lorraine. The full title of the first book in a series of six is Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Imperial Province of Alsace-Lorraine I (Elsass-Lothringen) District of Unterelsass I, French Department of Bas-Rhin – Kreise (Arrondissements) Hagenau Molsheim, Weissenburg, and Zabern with full index of included towns , The volume is by Kevan Hansen, as were the 32 books published earlier. This volume includes a total of ...

Modern digital cameras are technical marvels. They take very high resolution photographs. For instance, my shirt-pocket-sized Canon PowerShot SD780 IS Digital Elph camera takes 12-megapixel images. When saved on the computer's hard drive, these typically produce images of 4,000 by 2,248 pixels. Those are huge! Luckily, storage space is really cheap these days. Even two-terabyte hard drives are available for $100 or less. Storage space for these pictures isn't much of an issue but other uses can be a problem. Did you ever try to post one of those huge images on a web page? How about ...

Anybody have photos of these for Wanda?<BR><BR>Comal County<BR>NHL: National Historic Landmark<BR>NM: National Monument<BR>NMEM: National Memorial<BR>NHS: National Historic Site<BR>NHP: National Historical Park<BR>NR: National Register of Historic Places<BR>RTHL: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark<BR>HTC: Historic Texas Cemetery<BR><BR>Natural Bridge Caverns Sinkhole Site, Natural Bridge Caverns (NR)<BR>Bartels Cemetery, Spring Branch (HTC)<BR>Braschler ...

The Dutch Island Light Station2

It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidences Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable miracles. We call It, “Serendipity in Genealogy.”

Fog Shrouds the Lighthouse

“When my father was a young boy, he knew his grandmother,”  said Warren Porter. “And he knew her first name was Catherine and she had a connection in Maine.” But that was all they knew. A thick fog hung about Catherine, wife of Albert H. Porter.1

In the 1910 census,3 Warren ...

Betty Faye Meckel passed away on Friday, February 4, 2011 at her home in New Braunfels at the age of 82 years.

James Huebinger

Talk about a good samaritan! The Jamestown Sun has an article about Herb Schwede of Donnybrook, North Dakota. Schwede has documented about 70,000 gravesites from tombstone data that he's collected from visits to about 360 cemeteries between Towner and Montana, and Lake Sakakawea and Canada. He has documented a few cemeteries in eastern Montana and Minnesota. He posts his information online for use by genealogical researchers. "What I get out of it is e-mails from all over the world," he said. "A lot of times I get on the computer and there's 50 e-mails."

You can read the full ...

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Waggoners or Teamsters were important to early New Braunfels. They not only led the wagon trains of the early German settlers but they hauled freight to and from the frontier, especially the Gulf coast. G. Fred Oheim, editor of the Zeitung’s Jahrbuch in 1943, named 340 teamsters who “transported merchandise to New Braunfels from Indianola, Lavaca, Victoria, Cuero, Kingsbury, Luling, Marion, Austin and San Antonio from 1860 to1877 for Ernst Sherff alone.” Sherff was owner of a large merchandise business in New Braunfels that he purchased from ...

The gutsy New Braunfels boys basketball team answered nearly every run that Schertz Clemens could throw at them.

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 ...

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 ...

Houston police are scrambling for clues into the disappearance of a 12-year-old boy who they say was kidnapped from his home on Christmas Eve.

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.

Volume 34 of the German Map Guide series has now been shipped to all customers with standing orders, and is available at the Family Roots Publishing Co. website. This is the second volume of the 6-volume Alscace-Lorraine series and includes a total of 671 places - mostly towns, found in the Imperial Province of Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen) – District of Unterelsass II, French Department of Bas-Rhin – Kreise (Arrondissements) Erstein, Schlettstadt and Strassburg. The French names, as well as the German are included for each town. Written in English by Kevan Hansen, the ...