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Footsteps Vol. XXVI (2009)
| Title | Family Footsteps Vol. XXVI |
| Part of | Family Footsteps [1984 - present] |
| Author(s) | Comal County Genealogy Society |
| Published | Comal County Genealogy Society, New Braunfels, Texas, 2009 |
| Summary | "Family Footsteps" magazine is the official membership publication for the Comal County Genealogy Society. The issues for this year are available individually. |
| Index Entries | 1104 |
| Table of Contents | =================================================================== VOL XXVI 2009 =================================================================== TITLE Combined PAGE NO. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Letter from the Edit or/President ............................... 1 Membership Renewal Form for 2010 ................................ 2 CCGS Meeting Minutes and Photos - November & December Christmas Party 2008, January BOD, February, March, April, May, & November 2009 ................ 3 Summer Field Trips and September Picnic Photos ................. 14 Genealogy Workshop ............................................. 17 Cemetery Workshop and Photos ................................... 18 Obituaries of CCGS Members Edna Schievelbein Felps .................................... 22 Adolph Scheel .............................................. 23 CCGS Volunteer of the Year - Jane Vordenbaum ................... 25 Volunteer of the Year Application .............................. 26 Volunteers of the Year 2001 - 2008 ............................. 27 CCGS T-shirt Ad ................................................ 28 Update: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ............................ 29 Letter to State Rep. Donna Howard about Cemetery Desecration/ Preservation ......................... 30 Cemetery 'debacle' at Ranger Museum in Waco .................... 33 Albert & Friederike Braune Voss Tombstone ...................... 35 Andreas Christian Braune Family ................................ 36 "Famous or Infamous???" ........................................ 37 CCGS Gift Membership ........................................... 39 Pedigree Charts of CCGS Members Charliene Helen Becker ..................................... 40 Herbert Arthur Holzmann .................................... 42 Gail Ann Biegert-Hyatt ..................................... 44 Jane Marie Vordenbaum Phelps ............................... 46 Annie Bell Wesch-Scates .................................... 48 Reviews of Recently Acquired Books for CCGS Collection ......... 50 Those "mile" Creeks supporting the "Dry Comal"! ................ 53 Schlather's Corollary .......................................... 55 Recently Published Book - "Schertz, Texas - A Story of Great Ancestry, Legacy and Development" ............................... 56 "Father Gottfried Menzel arrives in New Braunfels" ............. 57 Interesting Articles from: "Central Texas Genealogy Society's - Heart of Texas Records" Footnote™.com: Discover History for Yourself ........... 59 "Tip-0-Texas Genealogy Society" - Genealogical Tips Obituaries -They Aren't Just in Newspapers ............. 61 Do You really know where You were Born? ................ 61 Scans reveal Lost Gravestone Text ...................... 62 "The San Antonio Library - The Explorer" Freie Presse fuer Texas ................................ 63 Deaths from Yellow Fever at Victoria ................... 65 Whose Tree? ............................................ 65 Boerne and the Cibolo Valley in Kendall County ......... 66 Note on Musical Activities in San Antonio .............. 67 Battle of Nueces River ................................. 68 Many Notables have been guests at the New Braunfels Oldest Hotel, The Plaza, which has gone Modern ..... 77 Nellie Connally: a Texas Icon and Her Texas Roots .............. 78 The Archives at the Texas General Land Office .................. 98 Institute of Texan Cultures Library at a Glance ................ 99 Walnut Church -Dedicated 160 years ago! ....................... 111 Copyright Tips (Terms and Obituaries) ......................... 113 Hunting for Ancestors: ........................................ 114 The Texas German Times ........................................ 115 Don't Quit .................................................... 120 Interesting Articles from: "Germanic Genealogy Society" - Journal Deutsches Auswandererhaus in Bremerhaven .............. 121 NARA German Immigration 1850-1897 Database Online ..... 122 Strategies for Solving Emigration Problems ............ 124 Strategies for Solving Research Problems .............. 126 "Palantines to America" - The Palatine Immigrant Using German Parish Marriage Records .................. 128 An Old Farmer's Advice ........................................ 134 My Work is so secret... ....................................... 135 The Portal to Texas History ................................... 136 The History of Aprons ......................................... 145 "The Old High School" ......................................... 146 Our Working Schedule ......................................... 164 We are the Chosen ............................................. 165 CCGS Member Surname List ...................................... 166 Periodical Exchange Societies ................................. 172 CCGS E-mail Roster ............................................ 174 CCGS Membership Roster ........................................ 177 Index ......................................................... 181 Editor: Connie Krause Technical Assistant: Michael Krause Indexing Editor: Marcella Chapple Contributing Editors: Charliene Helen Becker, Deanna Brown, Ethel Canion, Marcella Chapple, Everett Fey, Herbert Arthur Holzmann, Gail Ann Biegert-Hyatt, Yu Li, Jane Marie Vordenbaum Phelps, Alton Rahe, Flora von Roeder, Annie Bell Wesch-Scates, Wilfred Schlather, Baron Schlameus, Ludovic A. Sourdot, Wendel Voigt, Gerri Voss Ward & Dodie Weidner 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. |
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