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VOL XXIV 2007
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TITLE March No. 1 PAGE NO.
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Letter from the Editor/President................................. 1
CCGS Email Policy................................................ 2
Nomination Form for volunteer of the Year........................ 3
CCGS Meeting Minutes – October & November 2006, & January 2007... 4
Obituary of Raymond L. Staats, CCGS Member and Past-President... 13
Obituary of Frederick T. Reinarz, CCGS Member................... 14
San Antonio Genealogical & Historical Society
Library information........................................ 15
Clinton & Doris Acker honored as a Kendall Co. First Family..... 15
German Free School 150th Anniversary Celebration................ 16
“Come visit on Saturdays at the Sophienburg Archives & Museum”. 18
“Finally, a Tombstone: after 127 Years!”........................ 19
“A Prayer for Genealogists”..................................... 22
“The Zoo?”...................................................... 22
“Royalty in your Blood? Count on it............................. 23
“Human family tree’s roots remarkably shallow”.................. 24
“Comments overheard in 1957:”................................... 26
“Warning... Genealogy Pox”...................................... 27
Do you recognize any one in these photos?....................... 28
“Officials hear plans for county’s Courthouse”.................. 30
“Blanco’s Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Celebrates 99 Years”........................................ 31
“Journal of Memories”........................................... 34
“Jacob Brodbeck, First man to Fly?”............................. 35
“Area Genealogists help bring Family History to Life”........... 41
“William Tonne”................................................. 42
“Mickler, 107, was a descendent of Wurzbach Family”............. 46
Booklet from 1st Protestant Church of New Braunfels............. 47
“Organization’s efforts spotlight Historic Farms”............... 53
“Texas Department of Agriculture’s Family Land Heritage
Program Application"........................................ 54
Editor: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor: Marcella Chapple
Contributing Editors: Charliene Becker, Jerry Brodbeck, Ethel Canion,
Marcella Chapple, Everett Fey, Jean Heide,
Liz Hicks, David Hierholzer, Alton Rahe,
& Wilfred Schlather
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TITLE June No. 2 PAGE NO.
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Letter to Texas Historical Commission on Willig Cemetery........ 63
Obituary of Carol J. Friesenhahn,
CCGS Member and Cemetery Volunteer.......................... 65
Obituary of William G. Parsons, CCGS Member..................... 66
CCGS wins with 1890 Reconstructed Census........................ 67
“Tracing your family Roots”..................................... 69
Texas Historical Cemetery Designation Spangenburg Cemetery...... 73
“250th Anniversary of the “New Braunfels” Spanish Mission”...... 90
Pedigree Charts of CCGS Members
Everett Anthony Fey......................................... 92
Charlotte Jean Holland-Boyd................................. 94
Jane Marie Jahns Rice....................................... 96
Larry Wayne Lehmann......................................... 98
Mary Ann Busch-Lehmann..................................... 100
“Tracing your Roots”........................................... 102
“My Great Grandparents
Anna Marie (Hoffman) Schaefer and August Huebner”.......... 104
“The Trip from Texas to Illinois in 1861”...................... 107
“Things I Wish I had Done”..................................... 109
“German in Texas by Charles Dickens”........................... 110
“What Kind of Society Member are You?”......................... 115
“Old Times in San Antonio by V. L. James”...................... 117
Editor: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor: Marcella Chapple
Contributing Editors: Everett Fey, Charlotte Holland-Boyd,
Walter & Ruth Huebner, Larry Lehmann,
Mary Ann Lehmann, Jane Rice, Wilfred Schlather,
Marijane Stafford, T. G. Thompson, & Wendel Voigt
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TITLE November No. 3 PAGE NO.
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Letter from the Editor/President............................... 124
By-Law Revisions............................................... 125
CCGS Meeting Minutes – February, March, April, May 2007........ 131
Report of the Nominating Committee for Meeting of Nov. 2007.... 136
The CCGS Web Site.............................................. 137
“There are a few left – HURRY!
New Braunfels: The First Founders.......................... 142
“The Cemetery That Isn’t”...................................... 143
Looking for a Christmas Gift” – History of Sattler and
Mountain Valley School in Comal County, Texas 1846-1946”... 146
“Johann Jakob von Coll”........................................ 147
Honoring our Veterans – “Freedom Team Salute".................. 152
“The Fey Reunions... since 1945 without a miss!”............... 153
“The Family Picture”........................................... 155
“Genealogy” ................................................... 156
“The Recording of a Cemetery”.................................. 160
“Texas Historical Commission Conducts Archeological Dive
At Old Indianola”.......................................... 161
“From Bremen to Galveston”..................................... 163
Notable Achievements During the 3,400-Year Life
of a Giant Sequoia......................................... 166
Germanic Genealogy:
A Guide to Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns........ 167
“Dollaride’s Genealogy Rules”.................................. 169
“The year is 1907, one hundred years ago...”................... 172
“Small Town History: Fashing, Texas”........................... 173
“Your Basic Cow”............................................... 182
Editor: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor: Marcella Chapple
Contributing Editors: Everett Fey, Jean Heide, Marijane F. Stafford,
Cynthia L. Massey, John Rightmire,
Marlena Schlather & William Dollarhide
ATTENTION!
If you have an interesting poem, story, translation from a newspaper
article about your ancestors or your research has turned up something
that you think is interesting, please consider sending it to us to publish
in the "Footsteps". Persons submitting materials, which are published,
will be listed as a contributing editor. The Editor reserves the right
to edit submissions as necessary.
Please make sure all submissions are camera ready.