FAMILY FOOTSTEPS MAGAZINE
VOL XXIV          March 2007          Number 1

NOTE: Your Membership card is located on the inside back cover and the Membership Roster and Email Addresses are behind this issue’s index.

CONTENTS
    TITLE                                     PAGE NO.

Letter from the Editor/President    .    .    .    .    .    1
CCGS Email Policy    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    2
Nomination Form for volunteer of the Year    .    .    .    3
CCGS Meeting Minutes – October and November 2006, &
January 2007    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    4   
Obituary of Raymond L. Staats,
CCGS Member and Past-President    .    .    .    .    13 Obituary of Frederick T. Reinarz, CCGS Member    .    .    14
San Antonio Genealogical & Historical Society
    Library information    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    15
Clinton & Doris Acker honored as a Kendall Co.
    First Family    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    15
German Free School 150th Anniversary Celebration    .    .    16
“Come visit on Saturdays at the
Sophienburg Archives & Museum”    .    .    .    .    18
“Finally, a Tombstone: after 127 Years!”.    .    .    .    19
“A Prayer for Genealogists”    .    .    .    .    .    .    22
“The Zoo?”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    22
“Royalty in your Blood? Count on it    .    .    .    .    23
“Human family tree’s roots remarkably shallow”    .    .    24
“Comments overheard in 1957:”        .    .    .    .     .    26
“Warning... Genealogy Pox”    .    .    .    .    .    .    27   
Do you recognize any one in these photos?    .    .    .    28
“Officials hear plans for county’s Courthouse”    .    .    30
“Blanco’s Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Celebrates 99 Years”    .    .    .    .    .    .    31
“Journal of Memories”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    34
“Jacob Brodbeck, First man to Fly?”    .    .    .    .    35
“Area Genealogists help bring Family History to Life”    .    41
“William Tonne”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    42
“Mickler, 107, was a descendent of Wurzbach Family”    .    46
Booklet from 1st Protestant Church of New Braunfels    .    47
“Organization’s efforts spotlight Historic Farms”    .    .    53
“Texas Department of Agriculture’s Family Land Heritage
    Program Application    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    54
Editor:  Connie Krause
Technical Assistant: Michael Krause
Indexing Editor:  Marcella Chapple

Contributing Editors: 
Charliene Becker, Jerry Brodbeck,
Ethel Canion, Marcella Chapple,
Everett Fey, Jean Heide, Liz Hicks,
David Hierholzer, Alton Rahe,
& Wilfred Schlather

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


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 XXIV          June 2007          Number 2

NOTE: The Surname Index and Membership Roster are behind this issue’s index.

CONTENTS
    TITLE                                     PAGE NO.

Letter to Texas Historical Commission on Willig Cemetery    63
Obituary of Carol J. Friesenhahn,
CCGS Member and Cemetery Volunteer    .    .    .    .    65 Obituary of William G. Parsons, CCGS Member    .    .    .    66
CCGS wins with 1890 Reconstructed Census.    .    .    .     67
“Tracing your family Roots”.    .    .    .    .    .    .    69
Texas Historical Cemetery Designation
Spangenburg Cemetery    .    .    .    .    .    .    73   
“250th Anniversary of the “New Braunfels” Spanish Mission”    90
Pedigree Charts of CCGS Members
Everett Anthony Fey    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    92
Charlotte Jean Holland-Boyd    .    .    .    .    .    94
Jane Marie Jahns Rice    .    .    .    .    .    .    96
Larry Wayne Lehmann    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    98
Mary Ann Busch-Lehmann    .    .    .    .    .    .    100
“Tracing your Roots”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    102
“My Great Grandparents Anna Marie (Hoffman) Schaefer and
    August Huebner”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    104
“The Trip from Texas to Illinois in 1861”    .    .    .    107
“Things I Wish I had Done”    .    .    .    .    .    .    109
“German in Texas by Charles Dickens”    .    .    .    .    110
“What Kind of Society Member are You?”        .    .    .    115
“Old Times in San Antonio by V. L. James”    .    .    .    117   

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

Contributing Editors: 
Everett Fey, Charlotte Holland-Boyd, Walter & Ruth Huebner, Larry Lehmann, Mary Ann Lehmann, Jane Rice, Wilfred Schlather, Marijane Stafford, T. G. Thompson & Wendel Voigt

Published March 1, June 1, and November 1
By  :  Comal County Genealogy Society

FAMILY FOOTSTEPS MAGAZINE

VOL XXIV          November 2007          Number 3


CONTENTS
    TITLE                                     PAGE NO.

Letter from the Editor/President    .    .    .    .    .    124
By-Law Revisions    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    125
CCGS Meeting Minutes – February, March, April, May 2007    131   
Report of the Nominating Committee for
Meeting of Nov. 2007    .    .    .    .    .    .    136
The CCGS Web Site    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    137
“There are a few left – HURRY! 
New Braunfels: The First Founders    .    .    .    .    142
“The Cemetery That Isn’t”.    .    .    .    .    .    .    143
Looking for a Christmas Gift” –
History of Sattler and Mountain Valley School
in Comal County, Texas 1846-1946”    .    .    .    .    146
“Johann Jakob von Coll”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    147
Honoring our Veterans – “Freedom Team Salute    .    .    .    152
“The Fey Reunions... since 1945 without a miss!”    .    .    153
“The Family Picture”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    155 “Genealogy”     .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    156
“The Recording of a Cemetery”    .    .    .    .    .    .    160 “Texas Historical Commission Conducts Archeological Dive
At Old Indianola”    .    .    .    .    .    .     .    161
“From Bremen to Galveston”    .    .    .    .    .    .    163
Notable Achievements During the 3,400-Year Life
Of a Giant Sequoia    .     .    .    .    .    .    .    166
Germanic Genealogy: A Guide to Worldwide Sources
and Migration Patterns    .    .    .    .    .    .     .    167
“Dollaride’s Genealogy Rules”    .    .    .    .    .    .    169
“The year is 1907, one hundred years ago...”    .    .    .    172
“Small Town History: Fashing, Texas”    .    .    .    .    173
“Your Basic Cow”    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    182

At the Picnic in September, someone left a chip clip and kitchen towel.  If you would like to claim them as yours, please contact Connie with a description of each.


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

Contributing Editors: 
Everett Fey, Jean Heide, Marijane F. Stafford, Cynthia L. Massey,  John Rightmire,
Marlena Schlather & William Dollarhide

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




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.