VOL XV                       March 1998                     Number 1

       Title                                                 Page No.                                                         
Letter from the Publications Secretary  .      .      .      .      1
"Grave concerns" - Comal Cemetery Project      .      .      .      2
Discover the Secrets of Austin - June Tour     .      .      .      3
CCGS Board Meeting Minutes - August 1997       .      .      .      4
CCGS Meeting Minuetes - October, November, 1997       .      .      6
John O. Leal, Speaker - April 1997      .      .      .      .     11
"Thoughts which kept me awake at night" .      .      .      .     15
CCGS Query/Research Contract    .       .      .      .      .     16
CCGS/Query/Research Form        .       .      .      .      .     17
Queries .       .      .        .       .      .      .      .     19
From one of our Exchanges - Germanic Genealogy Soc    .      .     22
Genealogy of Sarah Barton Pierson       .      .      .      .     25
Treasures from the Comal Co. Courthouse .      .      .      .     26
Register of Treasury Warrants for new Jail, 1872      .      .     33
Will and Estate Inventory of Hermann F. Seele  .      .      .     34
"Emigration to TX from Mistek District"
      New Book by the "Czech Heritage Soc. of Texas"  .      .     38
Historical Overview - County Government .      .      .      .     39
Donations to the Society        .       .      .      .      .     39
"Bettina" by Helga Von Schweinitz       .      .      .      .     40
"Texanisches and the Conclusion to the Terrible Railrod
   Catastrope" translated by Carl and Ethel Saur      .      .     46
"The Fisher Land Grant and the First Immigrants"
   by Gus Clemens      .       .        .      .      .      .     49
Excerpts from a CCGS Publication:
   Death Records - 1903 to 1931, A through Lopez      .      .     52
Comal County Juror's Time Book (continued)     .      .      .     61

Editor:
Publications Secretary: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Contributing Editors: Charlotte Boyd, Ethel Canion, Everett Fey,
Carl and Ethel Saur, Edgar Nolte, and Connie Krause


VOL XV                       June 1998                       Number 2

       Title                                                 Page No.
Discover the Secrets of Austin  - June Tour    .      .      .     69
A Day Trip to Fredericksburg - July Tour       .      .      .     77
Historical Dates of the CCGS   .       .       .      .      .     78
CCGS Past Officers      .      .       .       .      .      .     80
CCGS Meeting Minutes - February, March 1998    .      .      .     82
New Books in the CCGS Research Library .       .      .      .     87
Queries and Reunions    .      .       .       .      .      .     88
CCGS Query/Research Contract and Form  .       .      .      .     90
The Austin History Center      .       .       .      .      .     93
Treasures from the Comal Co. Courthouse        .      .      .     95
Prince Solm's Map of Distances in Texas        .      .      .     97
Hortontown at New Braunfels, Translated by Carl and Ethel Saur     98
Eulogy from Johanna Tietze Liebscher's Funeral .      .      .    102
"Zion United Methodist Churcj History" - Index .      .      .    104
History of Davenport (Now Bracken)     .       .      .      .    105
Concrete Cemetery earns Historical Designation .      .      .    106
San Antonio German Newspapers  .       .       .      .      .    107
Jacob and Anna Rose Family Tree        .       .      .      .    108
A History of the Jacob and Anna Rose House     .      .      .    109
Excerpts from a CCGS Publication: Census Index "1880" .      .    117
Comal County Juror's Time Book (con't) .       .      .      .    125

Editor:
Publications Secretary: Connie Krause
Techmical Assistant: Michael Krause
Contributing Editors: Charlotte Boyd, Ethel Canion, Everett Fey,
Carl and Ethel Saur, Edgar Nolte and Connie Krause


VOL XV                      November 1998                     Number 3

       Title                                                  Page No.
Do You Belong?.....................................................133
"Ruhe Sanft Fuer die Toten"
      (Peaceful Rest for our Ancestors.............................134
(Please use this form whenever turning in any new
  information as small slips of paper are easily lost).............135
"Settling Texas"- Land Ownership in the Early Days
       of the Republic.............................................136
Thank you for Donation from THC....................................138
CCGS is on the Internet............................................139
Volunteers & Family Ties...........................................141
CCGS Meetin Minutes - April, May & September 1998..................142
Arlene Poerner, Speaker - November 1997............................148
Genealogy Books located at Seguin/ Guadalupe Co Public
     Library - Genealogy Section...................................150
New Publications in the CCGS Collection at the
     Sophienburg Archives..........................................151
National Archives iInformation Forms now available
     Via the Internet..............................................152
Request for Adelsverein Contracts..................................152
Something from our Past -
     CCGS Newsletters from 1884 & 1885.............................153
Queries............................................................163
Family Trees as Gifts..............................................163
Benjamin & Marian Ludwig Memorial & Reunion........................164
Genealogical Column Editor, Erin Wallace Mangiapane
      has Ancestors from Comal Co..................................165
The Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society..................................166
"Now What Do I Do With All This Stuff?
      (Have you ever thought what will happen to
      your research after you have gone to 
      be with your Ancestors?).....................................168
"How well does your Family know you?"..............................171
Treasures from the Comal Co Courthouse
      Road Minutes, Commissioner's Court...........................172
Obiturary of Ernst Pape............................................181
Cemetery Additions / Corrections...................................182
Texas State Library & Archives Commission Internet 
      Addresses....................................................182
Citizenship Paper of J. O. Meusebach...............................183
QUARANTINED! - Genealogy Fever.....................................184
"Remembering the Alamo"............................................185
140 th Anniversary of the NB Schuetzen Verein......................186
Central Texas Collections of the Neu Braunfelser
     Seitung 1852 - 1954...........................................187
"Gravestones: Telling Texas' Past in Stone"........................195
"Lost Blancoites in the Majic Valley"..............................197
Basic Research in the Archives of the Texas General
     Land Office...................................................199
Excerpts from a CCGS Publications: Death Records 1903-1931.........204
(Please note that this section only contains a small selection 
of pages from the book - this is not the whole publication!)
German Translator Available........................................213
"First Issues of Comal County Bonds & Warrants
     for Courthouse and Jail 1857".................................214

Editor:
Publications Secretary: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Contributing Editors:  Charlotte Boyd, Ethel Canion, Everett Fey, 
Helen & Leroy Klinger, Edgar Nolte & Connie Krause

Prepared for internet distribution by Wanda Qualls with permission of the Comal County Genealogical Society.