2004 Family Footsteps Publication FAMILY FOOTSTEPS MAGAZINE
VOL XXI          March 2004          Number 1

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of this issue

CONTENTS
    TITLE                                                                             PAGE NO.

Letter from the Editor    .    .    .    .    .    .    .                                1
CCGS Meeting Minutes – October, November & December 2003    2   
Obituary of Allen Haag, CCGS Member     .     .    .    .                   6
Panna Maria Historical Society.    .    .    .    .    .                            7
"Tired of Looking for the Perfect Gift to give?"    .    .                   10
Texas Historical Cemetery Designation
    Wilhelm Weidner Cemetery    .    .    .    .    .    .                       11   
"Almost a Life Time Ago"    .    .    .    .    .    .    .                        24
"Hermann Tolle – Saloon Keeper"    .    .    .    .    .                      25
Nomination Form for Volunteer of the Year     .    .    .                 33
"Treasures from the Comal County Courthouse"   
    County Clerk's Office – Brand Book D &
Road Minutes 1901-1902    .    .    .    .    .                                   34
Translations    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .                                  40
Texas Department of Agriculture –
Family Land Heritage Program Honorees.    .    .    .                      41
Bading Farm I & II       
        Little Rust'ler Tract I & II
"Resources abound for genealogists".    .    .    .    .                       45
"The Krause Family"    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .                          46
"What are Historical Designations"    .    .    .    .    .                      58
"You know you're an addicted Genealogist"    .    .    .                   60
"Comal Cemetery Book Additions & Corrections"    .    .               61

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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, Deanna Brown, Ethel Canion,
 Mary Ann Jonas Fortin,  Bernice Friesenhahn, Carol Friesenhahn,
Nadine Rosenberg Henneke, Gerron Hite, John Rightmire,
 & Vivian Zipp

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. 

FAMILY FOOTSTEPS MAGAZINE
VOL XXI          June 2004          Number 2

CONTENTS
    TITLE                                     PAGE NO.

CCGS Meeting Minutes - March & April 2004    .    .    .    .    73    
Daughters of the Republic of Texas    .    .     .    .    .    .    .    76
Texas Historical Cemetery Designation
    Sattler Family Cemetery    .  .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    79    
Nomination Form for Volunteer of the Year   .    .    .    .    .    94
"SS Peter & Paul School, New Braunfels 100 years ago!     .   95
"Tired of Looking for the Perfect Gift to give?"   .    .    .    .    97
Texas Historical Commission Designated Landmark-
Richard E. Kloepper Home    .    .        .    .    .    .    .    .    .   98
492 East Main        
"Professor Buechner (Buchner)"    .    .    .    .    .                 103
"History of Twin Sisters, Texas and Little Blanco Inn"    .      105
"Herman Seele seated with "An Unknown Friend""    .    .      106
"Submerged towns gone but not forgotten at Canyon Lake"    110
"Comal Cemetery Book Additions & Corrections"    .    .        112
"Albert Fey Reunion - 60 years"    .    .    .    .    .                   125
"Texas or Life in the Sunny South"    .    .    .    .    .               126

Published March 1, June 1, and November 1
By  :  Comal County Genealogy Society
P. O. Box 310160
New Braunfels, Texas 78131-0160

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Editor:  Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor:  Marcella Chapple

Contributing Editors:
 
Deanna Brown, Charles Buchner, Ethel Canion,
Everett Fey, Bernice Friesenhahn, Carol Friesenhahn, Bryan Weidner,  & Vivian Zipp

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.  

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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