2003 Family Footsteps Tocs

FAMILY FOOTSTEPS MAGAZINE
VOL XX March 2003 Number 1

NOTE: Your Membership card is located on the inside back cover
of this issue

CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE NO.

Letter from the President . . . . . . 1
CCGS Meeting Minutes – September, October, November &
December 2002 . . . . . . . . 2
20th Anniversary Program, October 8th, 2002 . . . . 8
2003 CCGS Board of Directors . . . . . . 14
"Dreams of being published reality for local authors" . . . 15
Texas Historical Cemetery Designation
Heinrich Voges Cemetery . . . . . . 16
"The History of the Heinrich Voges Cemetery and
The History of Bulverde" . . . . . . 26
"German Texas Heritage Society – an Exchange Society" . . . 33
"The Oak Tree – A New Braunfels Treasure" . . . . 35
"The Cold Water Shooting Club" . . . . . . 37
"The Joseph Nowotny Murder – 1893" . . . . . 38
"Where are you going? Buxtehunde ... . . . . . 41
"My Thirteen Republic of Texas Ancestors!" . . . . 42
CCGS Gift Membership Form . . . . . . 47
"Treasures from the Comal County Courthouse"
Commissioners Court Minutes – Book "E" . . . . 48
Nomination Form for Volunteer of the Year . . . . 54
"Dr. Ferdinand Roemer's Account of the
Llano-San Saba Country . . . . . . . 55
"You know you're an addicted genealogist… . . . . 58
Translations . . . . . . . . 59
The History Shop of San Antonio . . . . . . 60
"A Brief History of Maps" . . . . . . 62
"Yesteryears" form "German Life" . . . . . 64
"Merchant Seamen Records Indexed by Volunteers" . . . . 66
"Researching Military History" . . . . . . 68
"Requesting Pertaining to Military Records" . . . . 72
"Presidential Memorial Certificates Important Notice" . . . 74

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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, John Coers, Everett Fey,
Jean Heide, Gerron Hite, Ruby Jones, Mary Ann Lehmann,
Frances McQueeney, Edgar Nolte, Alton Rahe, John Rightmire,
Clara Skinner & 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.

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FAMILY FOOTSTEPS MAGAZINE
VOL XX June 2003 Number 2

CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE NO.

Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . 75
Comal Cemetery Books are now Available! . . . . . 76
Summer Field Trips . . . . . . . 77
Obituary of Arlene Poerner, CCGS Member . . . . . 78
Nomination Form for Volunteer of the Year . . . . 79
Additional Memberships for 2003 . . . . . . 80
CCGS Meeting Minutes – January, February, March,
& April 2003 . . . . . . . . 81
CCGS Exchange Societies
San Antonio Gen. & Historical Soc . . . . 86
Pommerscher Verein Freistadt . . . . . 87
Favorite Websites for Genealogy on the Internet . . . . 89
Genealogy Resource Guide from the New Braunfels Library . . 93
"Father Menzel: An Amazing Man" . . . . . . 97
Suggestions for Writing Queries . . . . . . 99
England in the 1500's . . . . . . . 99
"The 1900 Galveston Storm" . . . . . . 100
Pandemic Death . . . . . . . . 102
The Search . . . . . . . . 102
Texas Trivia . . . . . . . . 102
"Gammel's Laws" . . . . . . . . 103
"Who was H. P. N. Gammel?" . . . . . . 105
German Language Camp for Youth . . . . . . 107
"History below the Mountaintop ought to be preserved, too" . . 108
Obituary of Mrs. Wilhelmine Louise Blieder Förster . . . 109
"Deciding what you want on your Tombstone" . . . . 114
Genealogy online with AARP . . . . . . 114
Johann Carl Ludwig Jauer Family History available . . . 115
Ancestor Appreciation Day . . . . . . 116
Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits . . . . . 117
"Organize your Vacation Shots" . . . . . . 117
"The Journey" . . . . . . . . 118
"Preserve Papers for Posterity" . . . . . . 120
List of Microfilming done by LDS
in 1976-77 at Comal County Clerk's Office . . . . 121
"MISTAKES – We Never Make Any" . . . . . . 123
"The German-English School of San Antonio" . . . . 124

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"The Best is Under Ground" . . . . . . 125
"Freie Presse Fur Texas" . . . . . . 126
"The Man who Invented Ice Cream Soda" . . . . . 128
"I Want" . . . . . . . . 132
Items from "The Family Tree"
Magnetic Photo Albums . . . . . . . 133
"Jewish Records Indexing" . . . . . . 134
"Cemetery Tours" . . . . . . . 135
Translations . . . . . . . . 136
Texas Historical Cemetery Designation
Altwein Family Cemetery . . . . . . 137
"Altwein Family History" . . . . . . 144
"Hamburg – Link to your Roots" . . . . . . . 165

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, Bernice Friesenhahn,
Jean Heide, Mary Ann Lehmann, Laverne Pearce, Sarah Pierson,
Wilfred Schlather, Susie & Henry Seekatz, Lynn Thompson,
& 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.

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FAMILY FOOTSTEPS MAGAZINE
VOL XX	      November 2003          Number 3

CONTENTS
	TITLE									 PAGE NO.

Letter from the Editor	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	169
CCGS Meeting Minutes – May and September 2002	.	.	.       .       170	
Obituary of Walter Theis, CCGS Member	.	.	.	.	.       172
Obituary of Betty J. Giesen, CCGS Member	.	.	.	.       172
Obituary of Betty Shoemake, CCGS Member .	.	.	.	.       173
Obituary of Morris Chapple, CCGS Member .	.	.	.	.       173
New Braunfels Public Library 	.	.	.	.	.	.	174
Genealogy Resource Guide from NBPL	.	.	.	.	.	177
Lone Oak Cemetery, Guadalupe Co. Burials
 and Certificates issued	.	.	.	.	.	.	180
"A Spanish Mission…in New Braunfels…?"	.	.	.	.	.       181
The New Braunfels Garden Club 70th Anniversary Celebration	.       .       183
"We have lift-off"	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	184
Treasures of New Braunfels – June 2003 Fieldtrip	.	.	.       184
The Search for a Lost Church Record	.	.	.	.	.       197
"Cencus Taker for Bufflow"	.	.	.	.	.	.	198
Catholic Chapels of Comal County – July 2003 Fieldtrip	.	.       .       198
"How many relative do you have?"	.	.	.	.	.	204
"Have Pride in Humble Ancestry"	.	.	.	.	.	.       204
"Letter form Galveston about 1900 Hurricane Devastation" by
 Dr. Herbert Sterzing, descendent of Theodore Sterzing	205
"Photos Really Do Tell a Family Story"	.	.	.	.	.       211
Texas Historical Cemetery Designation
	Moegelin Cemetery	.	.	.	.	.	.	212
"The Night Before Christmas"	.	.	.	.	.	.	228
"The Grave of Nancy Hanks"	.	.	.	.	.	.	229
Texas Vital Statistics Records at the Texas State Library-
	Genealogy Section	.	.	.	.	.	.	230
"What is a First Cousin, Twice Removed?"	.	.	.	.       232
1977 Marion Centennial Celebration	.	.	.	.	.	233
"Digging at family tree reveals some interesting roots"	.       .       .       235
"Ancestor Farms & Plain Flour on Tombstones"	.	.	.	.       236
"Painted Churches of Texas"	.	.	.	.	.	.	237
"You are Your Own Cousin"	.	.	.	.	.	.	238
"Documentation & Genealogy"	.	.	.	.	.	.	239



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"The 12 Days of Christmas"	.	.	.	.	.	.	240
Letter from Kathy Schultz	.	.	.	.	.	.	240
"The Heise Family"	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	241
"Last Will and Testament of Flat Broke"	.	.	.	.	.       246
Obituary of Mrs. Katherine Mueller Blieder & Translation	.       .       247
"Isn't Genealogy Fun? & It's 2003"	.	.	.	.	.	249
Excerpts from "The Family Tree"
	"A lesson for US Citizens from our one dollar bill"	.       .       250
	"Looking for a Library or Genealogy Society"	.	.	.       252
	"Rules of Chocolate"	.	.	.	.	.	.	252

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, 
La Verne Pearce, Alton Rahe, Kathy Schulz, Ross Sterzing and 
Lynn Thompson 

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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