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Subject: [GERMAN-TEXAN] A Possible Source for German Immigrants to Texas
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:39:49 EST

Dear Subscribers

I don't know how many subscribers are familiar with a set of books, which
some genealogical critics sneer at, but I found my immigrating German
great-grandmother with four little children listed in Volume 2 of Germans to America.

I am fairly certain this growing set of books will be at large genealogical
collections in Texas, such as at San Antonio Public Library, Clayton Library
in Houston, perhaps the State Library in Austin, Dallas Public Library
[central branch], probably Fort Worth, and so on.

Anyway, ask - German to America - many volumes. Search your favorite online
catalog for a library near your home.

Look at the spine of each volume to determine the year. Not all Texans
came initially to Galveston - a good many Germans came to New Orleans in the
1850s, and so on. [Nothing is easy in genealogy--have you noticed?]

When wandering through the main research library of a very large University
here in California, I wandered into the section on immigration. Was I amazed
at the vast collection of genealogically-oriented books in that section.
Most Universities use the Library of Congress cataloging system. This
particular University library had a key for us dummies [which includes students, of
course]. Z section was mostly books pertaining to immigration. I found such
books as The Famine Immigrants, Italians to America [I think that is the
title], etc. (CS section in that University is for general books on genealogy
collections--some guides to biographies, etc. Much of which is online these
days.)

So--if your public library does not have a good collection of genealogically
oriented books, get on the online catalog for a community college or
University library which is within driving distance and see what collections may
help you. (If you don't snoop in any library, you are missing some good bets.
The more ragged the volume lurking on that shelf, the more valuable it may
be!!!)

E.W,Wallace
1/4 Texas German and a lot more of colonial German




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