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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE NO.
| State of the CCGS from the President | 1 |
| Letter From the Editor | 3 |
| "How do you live your Dash | 4 |
| CCGS in the News | 5 |
| "Sattler Aurthor pens lake history tome" | 6 |
| CCGS Meeting Minutes - October, November and December 1999 | 7 |
| "Write 'Em | 13 |
| "History of Friedens Church - March 1998 Program by Dorothy Constable | 14 |
| Order form for "Indianola and Matagorda Island" | 20 |
| Guadalupe County Genealogy Soc. - one of our Exchange Members | 21 |
| "Taking a trip back in Time" - Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country" | 23 |
| Family Histories Located at the Sophienburg Archives | 24 |
| "Treasures from the Courthouse" - Brands found in Book A | 28 |
| Election results for where the State Capitol should be from Comal County | 34 |
| Election results for Prect. #1 1848 | 35 |
| Scholastic Census for Comal County 1876 | 36 |
| "Top 10 Indicators that you've become a Gene-aholic | 42 |
| "tracing My Family Tree | 42 |
| "The Genealogist's Prayer" | 42 |
| "St. John Bottling Works" | 43 |
| Publications received by CCGS | 47 |
| "Genealogy & Family History of Philipp Jacob Schraub" | 48 |
| "What's your Line?" | 55 |
| Excerpts form "The Explorer" - San Antonio Public Library Publication" | 55 |
| "The Priests of SS Peter & Paul Parish" | 56 |
| "The Genealogist's Psalm" | 58 |
| "Passenger Lists of German Immigrants" | 58 |
| Map of Guadalupe Valley Memorial Cemetery | 59 |
| "Saving Historic Cemeteries" | 60 |
| THC Historic Cemetery Preservation Program | 62 |
| Cleaning Tombstones | 66 |
| Restoring Tombstones | 67 |
| Maintaining & Repairing Architectural Iron | 71 |
| "New center provides link to family history" - Canyon Lake LDS Family History Center | 78 |
| Continuing Series: Licenses to operate businesses in New Braunfels July, 1899 to July, 1914 | 79 |
Published March 1, June 1, and November 1
By : Comal County Genealogy Society
P. O. Box 310160
New Braunfels, Texas 78131-0160
Editor: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor: Marcella Chapple
Contributing Editors: Charlotte Boyd,
Ethel Canion, Everett Fey, Gerron Hite, Chris Kneupper,
Becky Lombardo, Edgar Nolte, Alton Rahe,
Marcella Chapple, John Rightmire, & Connie
Krause
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.
Prepared for the internet by Connie Krause.
CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE NO.
| State of the CCGS from the President | 89 |
| Letter From THe Editor | 90 |
| Constitution & By - Laws of CCGS | 91 |
| CCGS Meeting Minutes - Feburary & March 2000 | 97 |
| Selma, Texas - Did You Know? | 101 |
| Field Trip Information - Indianola - June 13, 2000 | 102 |
| Serbin & Painted Chuches - July 11, 2000 | 106 |
| Queries, Reunions, & Important Notices | 112 |
| Cemeteries to be Registered | 114 |
| Partial List of Cemeteries in Comal Co. | 115 |
| Obituary of Robert R. Robinson-Zwahr | 117 |
| Obituary of Alvin O. Manske, CCGS Member | 117 |
| Scholastic Census for Comal County 1876 | 118 |
| Order form for "Indianola and Matagorda Island" | 122 |
| Louis Cachand Ervenbert a.k.a. Christian Friedrich Ludwig Cachand | 123 |
| "History of Sattler And Mountain Valley School in Comal Co., 1846-1964" | 126 |
| Edward Maegelin, Baker, Bottler | 127 |
| "Genealogy & Family History of Gottfried Weller Family" | 130 |
| Old City Cemeteries of San Antonio | 137 |
| Historic Cemetery Desination For Carolina Schwab Cemetery | 138 |
| THC Historic Cemetery Program Handoust | |
| Gravestones Rubbing for Beginners | 149 |
| Cemetery Symbology | 155 |
| Glossary of Terms | 161 |
| Continuing Series: Licenses to operate businesses in New Braunfels July, 1899 to July, 1914 | 163 |
Published March 1, June 1, and November 1
By : Comal County Genealogy Society
P. O. Box 310160
New Braunfels, Texas 78131-0160
Editor: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor: Marcella Chapple
Contributing Editors: Ethel Canion, Al Dreyer,Everett
Fey,
Gerron Hite, Helen & Leroy Klinger, Chris Kneupper,
Edgar Nolte, John Rightmire, Curtis Schwab, Vivian Zipp,
& Connie Krause
Prepared for the internet by Wanda Qualls
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.
CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE NO.
| Letter From the Editor | 173 |
| CCGS Meeting Minutes - April & May 2000 | 174 |
| "From Neu Braunfelser Zeitung to Herald-Zeitung 1852 - 1999" April 1999 Speaker, Roger Nuhn , Retired Editor | 179 |
| "Family Problems" | 191 |
| "The Genealogyist's Nightmare" | 192 |
| One of our Exchange Members - Los Bexarenos "Hispanic families find roots" | 194 |
| Selma, Texas Did you know? - Postmasters and Years of Operation | 195 |
| "Do You Know Your Family History?" | 196 |
| How to Establish a Family Cemetery in Texas | 209 |
| Scholastic Census for Comal County 1876 | 210 |
| "Leap Years in the Gregorian Calendar" | 215 |
| "Genealogy and Fiamily History of Wilhelm Schlather Sr." | 217 |
| "No Occupation" | 223 |
| "Original Owner Might Not Know House Today" | 224 |
| "Martin SImon Legacy Alive Near Cranes Mill" | 226 |
| "Obituary of Katharina Simon nee Schuerch" | 227 |
| "Epitaphs..." | 228 |
| Obituary of Everette E. "Gene" Bartlett, Former CCGS Member | 232 |
| List of Comal Co. Records microfilmed by LDS in 1976 & 1977 | 232 |
| "The Family Tree" | 234 |
| Gillespie County Cemetery Book Available | 234 |
| THC Historic Cemetery Program Handouts | |
| Recording Cemetery Data | 235 |
| Mapping a Cemetery | 244 |
| Making Photographic Records of Gravestones | 246 |
| Unique Mape of Comal County | 252 |
| Continuing Series: Licenses to operate businesses in New Braunfels July, 1899 to July, 1914 | 253 |
Published March 1, June 1, and November 1
By : Comal County Genealogy Society
P. O. Box 310160
New Braunfels, Texas 78131-0160
Editor: Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor: Marcella Chapple
Contributing Editors: Ethel Canion, Al Dreyer,
Marcella Chapple,
Everett Fey, Gerron Hite, Chris Kneupper,
Edgar Nolte, Rosalie Simon, & Connie Krause
Prepared for the internet by Wanda Qualls
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.
NEWS FLASH!!!!!
The Sophienburg Archives now has an in-house translator
that can
translate those German Documents that you have been
dying to know
what they say or are about. Rates are reasonable
and turaround time
is usually short.
Please contat Becky at the Archives and include a sample
of the documents,
if you have quite a few. (I personally have been quite
happy with the translations
of some handwritten items that I was unable to decipher
- Connie Krause)
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